Why are birds so smart?

>hurrrrr

All living things on the planet date back to the beginning of life you retard from the smallest amoeba to the biggest mammal. They have all evolved "x and x billion years" because they all evolved from the same ancestor. It means nothing as to complexity.

They're the borg

this is the stupidest thing i've read all week

Oh that is weird, but consider that insects kind of have the same kind of thing with nodes and no real brain but they're capable of pretty complicated shit
Look at ants, they count their steps and stuff

ants are literally like individual cells within a super organism, they are capable of very specific robotic actions and can be freely controlled by scent and touch communication between ants, but are 100% completely incapable of any free thought. you need to stop thinking of ants as individual animals, like anthropologists did decades ago. ant colonies are essentially super-organisms.

free-thinking ants do rarely get born within a nest, and they are quickly hunted down and killed just like a free-thinking cancer cell.

wtf man

to some degree humans act as a super organism with each country or "culture" acting as it's own colony or entity.

>free-thinking ants do rarely get born within a nest, and they are quickly hunted down and killed
And free thinking humans who don't assimilate into society.

>I don't think humans are a species that fully came about naturally, but even so, some animals come pretty close. Maybe crows and magpies were tampered with as well, but I doubt it.

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You're gonna get the truth from my post and my post only OP. It's because birds spend a majority of their day, every day, watching things. What is that crow doing on the telephone line? Watching you, watching your dog, the cars driving past you. Observation leads to intelligence prove me wrong.

that’s why I said controlled flight. “directed” flight sound better to you?