The Intelligence Of Chickens | Animals Brains #1

Chickens have a rather small brain, but how intelligent are they?
The brain of a chicken is on average about 2.67 grams, which is rather small compared to other animals and other birds. Nevertheless, chickens are smarter than you might think. Chicken live in a social groups with dominant and subordinate individuals. Often the subordinate males try to trick the dominant males in order to get together with females. This suggests the capacity to deceive, which requires working memory.
Indeed in a delayed match to sample task chickens were able to remember diffent colors and remember how often they had to give a response, show some clear executive functional skills. Also, besides basic emotons of fear and aggression, chickens also have more complex emotions. It has been shown that they show empathy towards their own chicks. As such, there is more going on in a chicken's brain than many give them credit for.
Time stamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:22 Chicken cognitive capacity
2:52 Chicken emotional intelligence
References:
Edgar, J. L., Lowe, J. C., Paul, E. S., & Nicol, C. J. (2011). Avian maternal response to chick distress. Proceedings. Biological sciences, 278(1721), 3129-3134. doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2010.2701
Foster, T. M., Temple, W., Mackenzie, C., Demello, L. R., & Poling, A. (1995). Delayed matching-to-sample performance of hens: Effects of sample duration and response requirements during the sample. Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior, 64(1), 19-31. doi.org/10.1901/jeab.1995.64-19
Marino L. (2017). Thinking chickens: a review of cognition, emotion, and behavior in the domestic chicken. Animal cognition, 20(2), 127-147. doi.org/10.1007/s10071-016-10...
Narrated by: Miles Wischnewski
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[@baneverything5580]

One time at a chicken farm there were two old hens they couldn`t catch but they were closing it. So we went and lured them into traps and released them in a rural river bottom with my flock as 100% free range yard hens. They were both so happy and amazed because they`d lived inside before and had never seen grass, trees, or the sky. One would find something fascinating and call the other over to show it. They had a very clear conversation going on and were really talking a lot to each other.

[@ThirrinDiamond]

That is so cute 😭😭 I did the same thing when i was a toddler "come come lookit! Cool stick!" Adorable 💗

[@lizxu322]

Can confirm, once we had a new black chicken that absolutely throttled the reigning 'queen bee' and the sorority pretty much avoided the black chicken. We had to get rid of the black chicken too as it didnt lay no eggs either

[@deWiAnNaEnEcBi3857]

Pigs are top 5th most intelligent animal on Earth and they're more sensitive than dogs or cats. And Chickens are one of the top 20 most intelligent animal on Earth...

[@lizxu322]

Dinosaurs would have been amazingly smart animals when thry still existed.

[@Drakholm]

​@lizxu322 depends what you mean by "amazingly." The MOST optimistic (as in, coming from researchers who think Dinosaurs were much smarter than previously thought) studies have T-Rex being almost as smart as a baboon. That's MUCH more intelligent than most experts believe tho. The smartest Dinosaurs were likely social pack-hunting predators with long gestation and child rearing periods. I can't think of any dinosaurs thoughr to match that completely, but the duck-billed Maiasaura, a name that means ‘good mother lizard’, is one of the best-known examples of parental behaviour. They provided food for at least a period after hatching. One thing is all but certain though- the smartest mammals are more intelligent than any dinosaur would have been. Aka, NO dinosaur was as intelligent as say, an African Elephant.

[@mortara79]

Good jop

[@henryarero]

❤❤

[@henryarero]

Across the bridge Noval, Where the author made reference to the Brain of Chicken and the body of human being..I am trying to compare the Brain of Chicken and the body of human being

[@TwoBiteBrownies]

That's it, I'm going vegan.

[@real.psyched]

💪

[@forced4motorsports]

You can't be serious? Research it please. Veganism is a trap and kills more animals, insects and crop lands than meat eaters. Humans are carnivores who can tolerate some plants and fruits when necessary. We are not meant to eat plants, and especially seeds and grains, as a primary source of nourishment, as they are toxic. Why do you think most of the western world is fat and sick. I'll give you a hint: The Food Pyramid Lie.

[@Sugarsail1]

My chickens are smarter than most dogs and on par with cats and only slightly dumber than parrots.

[@markus19999]

Let's just leave them alone and not eat them :)

[@nomasknoway9903]

I wonder how much of other people's money was spent to study and report in an unnecessarily "technical" way what is easily observable and everyone already knew. 🤔

[@real.psyched]

Research reports contain much more details and findings than ever could be summarized in a short video. Sure, not all research studies have groundbreaking findings. But judging the value of research based on a short and much simplified youtube video is equally erroneous.

[@nomasknoway9903]

@@real.psyched That's nice. Just don't do it with my money.

[@deWiAnNaEnEcBi3857]

​@@nomasknoway9903what should I expect from dumb, evil people....😂😂

[@forced4motorsports]

Yeah sorry, they are barely self aware, if at all and I should know, because I raise them for meat and eggs. An animal that craps in it's own water, or buries it's own water in dirt while scratching/forging, thus putting it's own life in danger is neither smart, nor intelligent and is definitely not aware of it's surroundings. It is alive enough to eat, drink and propagate and has a limited social structure by way of instinct to accomplish these things, most of the time under human supervision.