Bird brain? Dodos were not so dumb after all


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Frederick William Frohawk's restoration from Walter Rothschild's 1907 book Extinct Birds. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

By WILL DUNHAM

The dodo is an extinct flightless bird whose name has become synonymous with stupidity. But it turns out that the dodo was no bird brain, but instead a reasonably brainy bird.

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