Birds (especially corvids and parrots) seem to pack surprising amounts of intelligence into small brains. Could there be some efficiencies worth studying there?
“The remarkable, yet not extraordinary, human brain as a scaled-up primate brain and its associated cost”, Herculano-Houzel 2012 doesn’t seem to mention there being anything special about bird brains relative to primate and other brains in either neuronal density or energy efficiency (but I’m not sure to what extent they looked).
Birds (especially corvids and parrots) seem to pack surprising amounts of intelligence into small brains. Could there be some efficiencies worth studying there?
“The remarkable, yet not extraordinary, human brain as a scaled-up primate brain and its associated cost”, Herculano-Houzel 2012 doesn’t seem to mention there being anything special about bird brains relative to primate and other brains in either neuronal density or energy efficiency (but I’m not sure to what extent they looked).