Cockatoos have shown themselves to be as smart as apes or four-year old humans, a new study reveals. A team of international Scientists tested eight Goffin cockatoos (Cacatua goffini), a conspicuously inquisitive and playful species on visible as well as invisible Piagetian object displacements and derivations of spatial transposition, rotation and translocation tasks. Birgit Szabo, one of the experimenters from the University of Vienna, said that ...Thursday, 1 August 2013
Study Suggests Cockatoos are as Smart as 4-Year-Old Kids
Cockatoos have shown themselves to be as smart as apes or four-year old humans, a new study reveals. A team of international Scientists tested eight Goffin cockatoos (Cacatua goffini), a conspicuously inquisitive and playful species on visible as well as invisible Piagetian object displacements and derivations of spatial transposition, rotation and translocation tasks. Birgit Szabo, one of the experimenters from the University of Vienna, said that ...
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