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Great Tit Telomeres, Baby Talk, Brainy Birds

10,000 Birds

Think about that for a moment … Anyway, we now know that the forebrain of some birds is more densely packed than mammals (primates and rodents, anyway). From Birds have primate-like numbers of neurons in the forebrain by Seweryn Olkowicz, Martin Kocourek, Radek K. an, Michal Porteš, W.

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