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from: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/lifestyle/parenting/the-intelligent-hen8217-...
IT IS easy to dismiss them as bird brains, but chickens may be cleverer than toddlers.
Studies show that chicks can master skills including numeracy and self-control – and even basic structural engineering.
Typically, it takes children until the age of four to accomplish some of these feats.
Christine Nicol, the Bristol University professor of animal welfare who reviewed 20 years of research on the topic, said it was wrong to think of chickens as being stupid. Instead, the birds have ‘many hidden depths’.
Chickens exhibit intelligent behaviour within just a few hours of hatching, Professor Nicol says.
