Reddit reviews The Genius of Birds

Among mammals the degree of gyrification (or wrinkling) can be a good (but not perfect) proxy for intelligence. However, birds evolved along a different evolutionary path. In evolution there is always more than one way to solve a problem. For example, birds, bats (mammals), and insects have all learned to fly in their own way, each have solved the problem of flight through their own unique evolutionary path. In much the same way birds have evolved their own way increase brain power that does not involve gyrification. The book the genius of birds explores the differences between mammalian and bird brains and how each have come to solve the problems of intelligence differently.

You've reminded me of this anecdote about birds (from The Genius of Birds):

>One of [Louis] Lefebvre's favourites was the report of vultures in Zimbabwe that perched on barbed-wire fences near minefields during the war of liberation, waiting for gazelles and other grazers to wander in and detonate the explosives. It gave the birds a ready-made meal already pulverized. However, says Lefebvre, "occasionally a vulture got caught in its own game and was exploded by a mine."

In fact, it's perfect.

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