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Pigeons have the capacity to share attention between different dimensions of a stimulus, but (like humans and other animals) their performance with multiple dimensions is worse than with a single stimulus dimension. Pigeons can be taught relatively complex actions and response sequences, and can learn to make responses in different sequences.
Bird intelligence has been studied through several attributes and abilities. Many of these studies have been on birds such as quail , domestic fowl , and pigeons kept under captive conditions. It has, however, been noted that field studies have been limited, unlike those of the apes.
Research in pigeons is widespread, encompassing shape and texture perception, exemplar and prototype memory, category-based and associative concepts, and many more unlisted here (see pigeon intelligence). Pigeons are able to acquire orthographic processing skills, [48] which form part of the ability to read, and basic numerical skills ...
Animal intelligence is the study about the origins of animal intelligence by studying the mental processes of other species. The basic premise of this research is that we need to understand the processes of association and learning in other animals in order to understand how human culture, art, religion, mathematics and more may have developed.
It has been suggested that g is related to evolutionary life histories and the evolution of intelligence [131] as well as to social learning and cultural intelligence. [132] [133] Non-human models of g have been used in genetic [134] and neurological [135] research on intelligence to help understand the mechanisms behind variation in g.
The rock dove, rock pigeon, or common pigeon (/ ˈ p ɪ dʒ. ə n / also / ˈ p ɪ dʒ. ɪ n /; Columba livia) is a member of the bird family Columbidae (doves and pigeons). [3]: 624 In common usage, it is often simply referred to as the "pigeon", although this is the wild form of the bird; the pigeons most familiar to people are the domesticated form of the wild rock dove.
The tooth-billed pigeons are the only genus (Didunculus) of the subfamily Didunculinae, in the pigeon and dove family, . It has no close living relatives, but it has been shown to be genetically close to the dodo , [ 2 ] and the genus name Didunculus means "little dodo". [ 3 ]
The International Ornithological Committee (IOC) recognizes 352 species in family Columbidae, the pigeons and doves.They are distributed among 50 genera. This list is presented according to the IOC taxonomic sequence and can also be sorted alphabetically by common name and binomial.