Hello Everyone!
Finally my birds book manuscript approaches completion, and with it 3 other closely related books, smaller extracts of my work over the past decade systematizing the animals.
Here is an extract of my recent summary of the passeriformes that I hoped you all would enjoy.
These birds (Corvids) are also remarkable for their intelligence. Particularly in the corvids, passeriformes have been found to be amongst the most intelligent of all organisms, despite their small size. Corvids in particular have demonstrated tool making, self awareness, empathy, emotional contagion, behavioral changes in different social contexts, ritual behaviors that appear to vary from social group to social group and to be transmitted between generations, and complex rational thought. Corvids are thought to posess intelligence roughly equaivalent to a human child. They can be said to possess at the very least the rudiments of culture, and likely full culture itself. They do seem to possess that most elusive of all qualities, sentience. And judging from a deep exploration of homeopathic provings of this clade, I would presume to add, I would suspect they possess spiritual lives and potentials just as profound as humans do.
For those of us growing up in the Western intellectual world that have basked in our own special status as the self proclaimed only intelligent species on Earth, these research findings were quite shocking. We have so long focused our gaze outwards to extraterrestrials and other forms of life beyond or world to seek the other, a sentience beyond the human, yet right here on our own planet, we seem to have other species that have sentience, likely for far longer than we have possed it. Though humans have an unparraleled ability to alter out environment with our tremedously multifunctional hands, it would seem we are not the only intelligent species on the planet. Corvids most notably, but also telluraves, certain cephalopods and cetaceans likely all are intelligent species.
Finally my birds book manuscript approaches completion, and with it 3 other closely related books, smaller extracts of my work over the past decade systematizing the animals.
Here is an extract of my recent summary of the passeriformes that I hoped you all would enjoy.
These birds (Corvids) are also remarkable for their intelligence. Particularly in the corvids, passeriformes have been found to be amongst the most intelligent of all organisms, despite their small size. Corvids in particular have demonstrated tool making, self awareness, empathy, emotional contagion, behavioral changes in different social contexts, ritual behaviors that appear to vary from social group to social group and to be transmitted between generations, and complex rational thought. Corvids are thought to posess intelligence roughly equaivalent to a human child. They can be said to possess at the very least the rudiments of culture, and likely full culture itself. They do seem to possess that most elusive of all qualities, sentience. And judging from a deep exploration of homeopathic provings of this clade, I would presume to add, I would suspect they possess spiritual lives and potentials just as profound as humans do.
For those of us growing up in the Western intellectual world that have basked in our own special status as the self proclaimed only intelligent species on Earth, these research findings were quite shocking. We have so long focused our gaze outwards to extraterrestrials and other forms of life beyond or world to seek the other, a sentience beyond the human, yet right here on our own planet, we seem to have other species that have sentience, likely for far longer than we have possed it. Though humans have an unparraleled ability to alter out environment with our tremedously multifunctional hands, it would seem we are not the only intelligent species on the planet. Corvids most notably, but also telluraves, certain cephalopods and cetaceans likely all are intelligent species.