Dodos might have been quite intelligent

Tuesday, February 23, 2016 - 14:10 in Biology & Nature

New research suggests that the dodo, an extinct bird whose name has entered popular culture as a symbol of stupidity, was actually fairly smart. The work, published today in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, finds that the overall size of the dodo’s brain in relation to its body size was on par with […]

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