Okay, but what's in a bird's toolbox?
E18. Turns out "bird brain" is less of an insult and more of a compliment. Scott sits down with Dr. Alex Kacelnik, Emeritus Professor at the University of Oxford, to dig into one of the most mind-bending questions in animal behavior: are birds actually building and using tools, or are we just projecting?
In this episode you'll hear about:
The experiment that left researchers completely flabbergasted and rewrote what we thought we knew about animal intelligence
Why flexibility, not raw smarts, is the real test of a thinking mind
Whether the drive to use tools is something birds are born with…
The skinny
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