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If someone were to call you a “bird-brain” would you take it as an insult? If your answer is yes, you should probably reconsider. Although birds, (like chickens), are commonly stereotyped as being stupid or “scatter-brained,” this is hardly the case! Chickens, for example, can learn to solve puzzles, respond to their names and count numbers just like people can. However, despite their enormous intellect, chickens are rarely seen as anything other than non-feeling “food” animals. When we start to recognize and acknowledge a chicken’s intelligence, it becomes much more difficult to continue to see them in this light.
Which is why in honor of International Respect for Chickens Day we’d like to introduce you to Little Miss Sunshine. This very special chicken is a former battery hen who was rescued by Edgar’s Mission Farm Sanctuary. Since her rescue, Little Miss Sunshine has been given the chance to demonstrate and expand her amazing brain. In this video, she shows her ability to count, helping to send the message that all chickens “count” (see what they did there?).
So remember, next time someone calls you a “bird-brain” just say thank you!
No, I\’m pretty sure "bird brain" is not the biggest compliment I could ever receive, regardless of how "smart" you want to portray chickens or any other bird as being. The fact that she was pecking the dots and then saw the hand moving with another stimuli in it and ran over to see it, doesn\’t show intelligence, just curiosity.
Humans like to portray themselves as being very smart compared to "bird brains." I know of people whose I.Q. could be compared to a dead flashlight battery, no matter how "smart" they want to portray all members of their species as being.
Cartesian thinking and prejudice still exist in the minds of a lot people, whose species prejudice has to belittle the intelligence of other species in order to boost their own. That\’s all.
That is amazing. The more I hear and see animals intelligence the more I realize how dumb humans were for thousands of years to not recognize their intelligence. Amazing thank you Miss Sunshine