Tamsin Cooper’s article on poultry cognition reveals evidence about smart chickens. Neurologist Lori Marino is aware of how complex and intelligent chickens are. She collated evidence of their mental and emotional capacities to raise awareness of their need for good welfare as individual sentient beings.
People who are not familiar with chickens are often amazed at how smart they are.
Source: Backyard Poultry, May 6, 2019. Link.
Chickens experience emotions that help them to make decisions. We can recognize certain behaviors as being indicative of how they are feeling.
Also see: Think outside the coop when raising chickens, Backyard Poultry, March 14, 2019. Link.
INSIGHTS: This is a thought-provoking article on poultry cognition and emotions. It will challenge paradigms about chickens. At minimum, it will create pause to compare behaviorial evidence against anthropomorphisms.