Pigeons, like monkeys, can do the math

Category: Science

Publish Date: 12-30-2011 04:15 PM -0800

New Zealand researchers report that the birds can count, a skill previously thought to be unique to primates.

For typical city folk, there may be no creature more pedestrian than the pigeon, that ubiquitous gray denizen of the sidewalks. But the bird's reputation got a boost this month when psychologists at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, announced that pigeons can count — a skill previously presumed to be unique to primates.

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