What a Bird Brain

This black and white image of a bird brain shows a large, smooth cortex (left), folded cerebellum (right) and brainstem (bottom).

It turns out that our most our Avian friends have sophisticated brains that are quite similar to our own brains.

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Birds are vertebrates. Their spinal cord (covered in vertebrae) extends to their brain - just like in humans.

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What are some differences between a bird brain and a human brain? Looking at the picture of the bird brain, can you see how there is less cortex than a human's brain?

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