It always amazes me how small birds change direction mid-flight and seem to do it frequently, being able to make tons of movements in small urban areas with lots of obstacles.
Same thing with squirrels – they move so fast and seem to be able to make a hundred movements in the time a human could be able to make ten!
So what’s going on here? Do some animals just THINK faster than humans, and not only move faster than them?
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Not a doctor/scientist or anything, but birds probably have a few advantages we dont have:
– smaller brain/body = less distance for electric signals to travel
– few neural pathways because they are more simple than humans, so those pathways are ultra-optimized to the things birds do
– evolution has favored birds that can react very fast and all the birds that cant dont survive
Obviously we have several *significant* advantages over birds that make our slower mammal brains better overall, but purely in terms of speed birds are really built differently.
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