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Chicken Mind-Reading Study Concludes

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Chickens think about the future, news so bizarre and unanticipated that KFC has changed it's slogan to "we kill only supid chickens"
From the study in the current Animal Behavior, chickens are able to anticpate future events.


It remains unclear what exactly goes on in the minds of chickens, which are raised at a rate of 40 billion birds per year to satisfy human consumption demands. Abeyesinghe, however, did say, "They probably show more cognitive ability than people would generally credit them with."

WTF?

How much credit do you give chickens? It's a question I haven't really thought of before. Lizards, sure. But chickens? I can't say I've put as much thoughful consideration into chicken intelligence as I should.

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This comes as no big surprise to me. After all, non-swimming birds with limited flying abilities have a LOT of time to just stand and think! I guess to be more humane we'll have to start sneaking up on them at slaughter time so they won't know what's coming.

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