Pigeons Can Learn Higher Math as Well as Monkeys, Study Suggests

Thursday, December 22, 2011 - 14:40 in Psychology & Sociology

It has been known that pigeons can count, but a recent experiment showed they can perform a higher math task that had been demonstrated only in primates: ranking groups of items from fewest to most.

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