{"id":2743,"date":"2018-10-19T11:26:08","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T15:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.porticomagazine.ca\/?p=2743"},"modified":"2020-10-28T14:40:13","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T18:40:13","slug":"size-does-not-matter-in-bird-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/porticomagazine.ca\/2018\/10\/size-does-not-matter-in-bird-brains\/","title":{"rendered":"Size does not matter \u2013 in bird brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bigger does not mean better in the bird world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBird brains are small, but they have the same number of neurons as the average primate,\u201d says Prof. Ryan Gregory, Department of Integrative Biology.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cContrary to the idea of \u2018bird brains,\u2019 they\u2019re pretty bright.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a recent study published in the Canadian Journal of Zoology, he found that birds with smaller genomes have more neurons crammed into the same brain mass than those with larger genomes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pack neurons more densely, and you promote more neuronal connections, a key factor in intelligence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAt the cell level, that tells us about how complex brains evolve,\u201d Gregory says.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bigger does not mean better in the bird world. \u201cBird brains are small, but they have the same number of neurons as the average primate,\u201d says Prof. Ryan Gregory, Department of Integrative Biology. \u201cContrary to the idea of \u2018bird brains,\u2019 they\u2019re pretty bright.\u201d In a recent study published in the Canadian Journal of Zoology, 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