The kea can predict the likelihood of an event occurring — the first animal outside great apes such as humans to show this ability.
The New Zealand kea has shown it makes decisions based on probabilities, rather than simpler strategies.Being called"bird-brained" isn't much of an insult when you're being compared to the highly intelligent Kiwi parrot, the kea.They can also combine different sorts of information to make judgementsNature Communications
"That's something humans are very, very good at," said comparative psychologist and lead author of the study Amalia Bastos. "What is fascinating is that we had some inklings that birds might show domain-general intelligence, but we didn't have any concrete evidence until now."Kea live in very harsh environments in the alpine regions of New Zealand's South Island where there's very little food around."Their core motto in life is to stick their beaks into things and see if it breaks, that's how they find food.
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