how intelligent are owls, in your experience? obviously, they're traditionally known as these wise sages of the bird world, and in reality, they're a lot dumber given how much of their skull is just eyes... but just how dumb?
>>5129079The Snowy Owl has 1,270,000,000 neurons in its forebrain while Cats only have 249,830,000 neurons in the forebrain. Cats should be classified as retarded.
>>5129079Birds of prey are all pretty stupid in relation to other bird species, but most falcons and hawks can be trained in falconry. Owls on otherhand are so stupid that they cannot be adequately trained to return to handler once released. They get lost and kill themselves a ton, yet a bird 1/4 their size can do the job.>>5129084Neuron count is not an absolute indicator of intelligence as the way that brains form neurological highways is just as important. Bears and Giraffes have a ton of neurons, more than Dogs or Macaques, yet they are somehow more retarded than either one. Same applies to Owls v Cats. Cats are not super smart, but they are by and large way fucking smarter than an Owl.
>>5129120>Cats are not super smart, but they are by and large way fucking smarter than an Owl.Doubtful.
owls are extremely retarded because, imo, of how specialized their hunting behavior is.
>>5129133>owl kills cat, therefore owl smarterA retard could beat you to death with a club, but that doesn't make the retard any less of a retard. Cats are retarded, owls are retarded, but the latter is more so than the former.
>>5129079I have heard owls are dumb because their enormous eyes take up so much space in their heads there is less room for brains.
>>5129370Not that simplistic. The important part is that owls dedicate an enormous amount of brainpower to audiovisual processing. More audio than visual by a considerably margin, IIRC. Everything else takes a step back in comparison.
>>5129400That makes masturbation far more awkward if you owned a pet owl
