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The old expression "bird brain," referring to a small or inadequate brain size—it's not all that accurate. Take crows, for example, and other corvids, like jays and magpies. "Many corvids have relatively large brains for their body size, and can do amazing things." Anders Møller, an evolutionary biologist at the French National Science Research Council. "So this 'bird brain' expression is a little bit simplified." Some birds are so intelligent that they're informally referred to as "primates with feathers."
But even among the smartest bird species, there's still natural variation in brain size. Which is a big deal—when it comes to being hunted. Møller worked with a taxidermy shop in Denmark, which had data on nearly 4000 birds brought in to be stuffed since 1960. A lot of the birds were just found dead—hit a window or wire—and people picked them up. But 300 of the specimens had been hunted.

So Møller's team then compared the brain sizes of birds that got shot to those that didn't. They controlled for the birds' age, sex, body size, and species. And they found that the hunted specimens' brains were actually five percent smaller, on average, than the brains of birds that died by other means. "The surprising thing is that, if you make a similar kind of analysis of liver or heart size, there is absolutely no difference there. So this is specific to the brain." The results are in the journal Biology Letters.
The researchers assume that individuals with larger brains had what they called "superior escape ability." That is, they were better at not getting shot.
As game season begins, Møller has this observation for hunters: "When you are sitting at the dinner table and eating the duck that you managed to shoot, with all likelihood it's one with a disproportionately small brain." Most certainly food for thought.
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捕猎季即将开始，莫勒对捕猎者说：“当你坐在餐桌旁享用你捕到的鸭子时，那很可能是一只大脑比较小的鸭子WD;wtACwWANsjq#~D~E。”这的确是引人思考的事情QiBRqw#JujQ9cZ。
谢谢大家收听科学美国人——60秒科学]mC2-9LH,=+。我是克里斯托弗·因塔利亚塔%vP^AN%i|d&&)。

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