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Nova: Inside Animal Minds: Bird Genius

Nova (2014)

Documentary | United States

Director: Graham Russell

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Rating: 8.1/10

SEASON: 41

EPISODE: 8 - Inside Animal Minds: Bird Genius

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From PBS - Today, researchers are discovering that some creatures have mastered skills purportedly restricted to humans. Many are bird brains. Meet a cockatoo with a talent for picking locks; a wild crow on a mission to solve an eight-step puzzle; and a tame raven who can solve a puzzle box so quickly that his performance has to be captured with high-speed photography. Are these skills really evidence of high intelligence or just parlor tricks, the result of training and instinct? To find out, NOVA tests the limits of some of the planet's brainiest animals, searching for the secrets of a problem-solving mind.

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Producer: Kristine Allington, Paula Apsell

RUNTIME: 53 min

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