Helen Augustyn

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“What Goes on in the Mind of a Bird?” by Helen Augustyn

Submitted to Contest #223

What goes on in the mind of a bird? Liberty Coates surely knows. After twenty years of research on the spotted Oriole, she has written countless papers on her extensive studies. The conclusion: birds do not have the emotional intelligence to think thoughts. On May 19th, 1987, two months after Liberty Coates’ less than successful paper The Spotted Oriole: My Life’s Devotion was published, her lifelong rival Bruce Davidson published his groundbreaking neuroscience study, claiming that birds are one of the most intelligent creatures o...

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