Pigeons: the unlikely genius of the animal kingdom

The Science Briefing

They love street food scraps, they’re often a bit mangled looking but they’re also incredibly smart?

Research on pigeon intelligence has picked up serious speed these last few years that has found these birds have some serious brains.

Not only can they solve incredibly complex mathematics but in some cases they can even identify deadly tumors.

Dr Sophie Calabretto gets a pigeon intelligence blow-by-blow from Cosmos Magazine journalist Petra Stock.

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