Chickens may not be bird brained, say researchers

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hickens may not be bird brained, say researchers

 

Tim Radford, science editor

Thursday September 12, 2002

The Guardian

 

Sheep remember faces. Pigs could have a theory of mind. And when it comes

to bird brains, chickens are not necessarily at the bottom of the class

either, according to animal researchers.

Britons eat 800 million chickens a year, and breakfast on the eggs of 40

million laying hens. It is important for welfare - and economics - to know

how chickens think. But no one knows where a chicken stands in the spectrum

of intelligence, Christine Nicol, of Bristol University, told the British

Association festival.

 

" We need to know how their minds work, how they think, their capacity to

feel and their capacity to suffer, " she said.

 

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,790431,00.html

 

 

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