Sentence examples for brain in a bird from inspiring English sources

"If you put your brain in a bird, it would fly backwards".

Amphibians and reptiles do not have brain structures directly analogous to the forebrain of birds and mammals, suggesting that an increase in relative brain size is unlikely to confer the same cognitive advantages as would a relatively large brain in a bird or a mammal [3], [9], [10].

A necropsy showed the worst brain inflammation in a bird that McNamara had seen in her 18-year career, and she fretted that her surgical mask wasn't enough protection against whatever had killed Clementine.

Songbirds have long been studied for insight into how the brain learns motor tasks — in a bird's case, singing its characteristic song.

Determining the size of brain in a fossil reptile or bird is actually relatively easy.

"Only on BBC4 can you see a man in his underpants pretending to be a song thrush, whilst revealing the latest neuroscientific discovery of what's really going on in a bird brain," said Sara Ramsden, Cheetah's creative director.

The costs of growing and maintaining a large brain in migratory birds may emerge from limited time for development and the energetic costs of travelling long distances [17].

This Bessie-Award winning choreographer is turning Dance Theater Workshop inside out with "Bird Brain" in an effort to create a habitat that offers urbanites a taste of her nature-driven dances.

I'm 'a bird in a bird in a bird'.

In the first place, it is quite apparent that the cognitive abilities and the complexity of behaviour of teleost fish have previously been greatly underestimated and it is now well documented that, in this group, we can observe many of the cognitive functions that were once believed to be associated with evolution of a large brain in mammals and birds.

Adult neurogenesis in brain in mammals or birds seems to play a role in establishing a temporal order of events by clearing out old traces of experiences and consolidating new memory [39].