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A while ago I found this chicken sitting on my window. I have no idea how it got here, but she was a great model. (The picture was taken* through glass)

* At first I wrote "shot", but then read the sentence again... Oops...
No animals were harmed during this process, I swear!

Here are some chicken facts I found interesting:
(There's also a link with a cute video I recommend you all to watch...)

• Chickens are as smart as mammals, including some primates, according to animal behaviorist Dr Chris Evans, who runs the animal behavior lab at Macquarie University in Australia and lectures on his work with chickens. He explains that, for example, chickens are able to understand that recently hidden objects still exist, which is actually beyond the intellectual capacity of small children. Discussing chickens’ various abilities, he says, "As a trick at conferences I sometimes list these attributes, without mentioning chickens, and people think I’m talking about monkeys"

• Dr Joy Mench, professor and director of the Center for Animal Welfare at the University of California at Davis explains, "Chickens show sophisticated social behavior. That’s what a pecking order is all about.. They can recognize more than a hundred other chickens and remember them"

• In her book The Development of Brain and Behaviour in the Chicken, Dr Lesley Rogers, a professor of neuroscience and animal behavior, concludes that chickens have cognitive capabilities equivalent to mammals—in other words, they’re just as smart as cats and dogs!

• Dr Nicol of the University of Bristol explains, "Chickens have shown us they can do things people didn’t think they could do. There are hidden depths to chickens, definitely"

• The video "Let’s Ask the Animals" [[link] ] produced by the Association for the Study of Animal Behavior in the United Kingdom, shows chickens learning which bowls contain food by watching television, learning to peck a button three times in order to obtain food, and learning how to navigate a complex obstacle course in order to get to a nesting box

• In 2002, the PBS documentary The Natural History of the Chicken revealed that chickens love to watch television and have vision similar to humans. They also seem to enjoy all forms of music, especially classical.

• Chickens are able to gather knowledge by watching the mistakes of others and are very adept at teaching and learning

• Chickens can learn to use switches and levers to change the temperature in their surroundings and to open doors to feeding areas

• A mother hen will turn her eggs as many as five times an hour and cluck to her unborn chicks, who will chirp back to her and to one another from within their shells!

Some more at: [link]

Description
A while ago I found this chicken sitting on my window. I have no idea how it got here, but she was a great model. (The picture was taken* through glass)

* At first I wrote "shot", but then read the sentence again... Oops...
No animals were harmed during this process, I swear!

Here are some chicken facts I found interesting:
(There's also a link with a cute video I recommend you all to watch...)

• Chickens are as smart as mammals, including some primates, according to animal behaviorist Dr Chris Evans, who runs the animal behavior lab at Macquarie University in Australia and lectures on his work with chickens. He explains that, for example, chickens are able to understand that recently hidden objects still exist, which is actually beyond the intellectual capacity of small children. Discussing chickens’ various abilities, he says, "As a trick at conferences I sometimes list these attributes, without mentioning chickens, and people think I’m talking about monkeys"

• Dr Joy Mench, professor and director of the Center for Animal Welfare at the University of California at Davis explains, "Chickens show sophisticated social behavior. That’s what a pecking order is all about.. They can recognize more than a hundred other chickens and remember them"

• In her book The Development of Brain and Behaviour in the Chicken, Dr Lesley Rogers, a professor of neuroscience and animal behavior, concludes that chickens have cognitive capabilities equivalent to mammals—in other words, they’re just as smart as cats and dogs!

• Dr Nicol of the University of Bristol explains, "Chickens have shown us they can do things people didn’t think they could do. There are hidden depths to chickens, definitely"

• The video "Let’s Ask the Animals" [[link] ] produced by the Association for the Study of Animal Behavior in the United Kingdom, shows chickens learning which bowls contain food by watching television, learning to peck a button three times in order to obtain food, and learning how to navigate a complex obstacle course in order to get to a nesting box

• In 2002, the PBS documentary The Natural History of the Chicken revealed that chickens love to watch television and have vision similar to humans. They also seem to enjoy all forms of music, especially classical.

• Chickens are able to gather knowledge by watching the mistakes of others and are very adept at teaching and learning

• Chickens can learn to use switches and levers to change the temperature in their surroundings and to open doors to feeding areas

• A mother hen will turn her eggs as many as five times an hour and cluck to her unborn chicks, who will chirp back to her and to one another from within their shells!

Some more at: [link]