African grey parrots have the capacity for some pretty sophisticated mental maneuvers. A new study puts them in a very exclusive club, along with humans and great apes: animals capable of abstract inferential reasoning. Read more about these brainy birds at my Animal Minds blog here.
Parrot Smarts: New on 'Animal Minds' Blog
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