Think your children are bird-brains? You're right - our
feathered friends outperform seven-year-olds in logic tests -
Eurasian jays outperform 7-year-olds in logic tests - Birds do
better than humans in two out of three tests By Fiona Macrae In
two of the three tests, the birds ¿ Eurasian jays ¿ did just as
well as the seven-year-old children IT’S a suggestion that will
give pause for thought to even the proudest of parents. For no
matter how bright they believe their son or daughter is, until
the age of seven, children are, at least in some respects, no
brainier than birds. In simple experiments, birds did just as
well as children up until the age of seven. Researchers pitted
birds against boys and girls using tests inspired by the Aesop’s
fable in which a thirsty crow is able to drink from a pitcher
after using pebbles to raise the water level to within its
reach. In two of the three tests at Cambridge University, the
birds – Eurasian jays – did just as well as the seven-year-old
children. After this, the h