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Bird brain? Ounce for ounce birds have significantly more neurons in their brains than mammals or primates

June 13, 2016 by

The first study to systematically measure the number of neurons in the brains of birds has found that they have significantly more neurons packed into their small brains than are stuffed into mammalian and even primate brains of the same mass.

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