The Bird-Brained Fiasco free download book
The Bird-Brained FiascoThe Bird-Brained Fiasco free download book
- Author: Louise Munro Foley
- Published Date: 31 Dec 1996
- Publisher: Demco Media Inc
- Language: English
- Book Format: Hardback::89 pages, ePub, Audiobook
- ISBN10: 0606120335
- ISBN13: 9780606120333
- File size: 59 Mb
- Filename: the-bird-brained-fiasco.pdf Download: The Bird-Brained Fiasco
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Scientists looked inside bird brains and found they're far more sophisticated than yours. Think again the next time you call someone bird-brained. You might be giving them a compliment. Bird brains are small. An emu's brain accounts for 0.06% of its body mass, whereas a human's is 2%. If you'd had any doubts, there's no denying it any longer: the much-feared Hawks are all bird-brain and zero strategic-smarts. This is an Synopsis It's used as an insult 'bird brain' not very bright. But new research means this may no longer apply. This film shows how bird intelligence. Nose cone of NIST glide bomb showing the three-pigeon guidance system. During World War II, NIST was among those working intensely to develop guided weapons to help the Allies win the war. Despite the success of Project Pigeon, pigeon-piloted bombs were never used in WWII. Birds show remarkable levels of intelligence, something that may have given them the edge following the K-T extinction event.