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Unfortunately for parrots, they cannot evolve larger brains without giving up flying. I suspect that birds in general have very optimized brains because of the weight constraints.
Though flightlessness is an option: emu, penguin, dodo, even a parrot (New Zealand Kakapo ).
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Would you pay 2x so you could know they had fields and beach balls? Or 1x for industrial cow-cubicles? Be honest now..
I'll pay you 1000x for the patent on the system that allows me to verify at the supermarket that the meat I'm buying came from the beach ball cows
Any farm kid can tell you that animals are smart, especially if they've gotten into a battle of wits with a goat. As Mark Twain said (and I am paraphrasing), "the only distinction between man and the lesser animals is that the lesser animals don't sit around and talk about what makes them different from us."
> the lesser animals is that the lesser animals don't sit around and talk about what makes them different from us. Yes, they do. I won't let my cat near the computer, as she'll use it to log onto catnet and plot the cataclysm with the other cats. I've also caught her leafing through my electronics parts catalogs. I'm not sure how worried I should be.
(PawSense is a software utility that helps protect your computer from cats.)
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Interesting. Could have opened possibilies for intelligence to have utility. BTW parrots are quite dextrous with their feet and tongue.
Unfortunately for parrots, they cannot evolve larger brains without giving up flying. I suspect that birds in general have very optimized brains because of the weight constraints.
We know we ate mamoths to extinction. We ate a lot of whales.
It stands to reason we ate other animals of karger physical bodyband brain size. We ate some ostrich species.
Shame