Pigeons:Eienstein's of The Animal World??

Pigeons have been discovered to be a highly intelligent creature especially when it comes to dealing with numbers.The study, published in the latest issue of the journal Science, reports that pigeons can discriminate against different amounts of number-like objects, order pairs, and learn abstract mathematical rules.


Scarf, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Psychology at the University of Otago, and colleagues Harlene Hayne and Michael Colombo conducted experiments which demonstrated the mathematical abilities of pigeons. The pigeons were able to relate "quantity of certain objects" with their numerical values on screen. They even showed the ability to arrange the numbers 1-10 in ascending order.

Further Interesting experiments and their results can be read out in this article.