It’s officially time to reappropriate the term “bird brain,” because, as it turns out, these feathered friends have a lot they can teach us.
Scientists have long been fascinated with the organization and innate knowledge of birds, and now that there is sufficient research on how and why they function as a group, particularly in the arduous task of migration, humans can learn a thing or two from our fellow animal.
Leadership and teamwork, especially, are things birds have almost perfected out of millennia of natural selection, so why not take some of those lessons for ourselves? Click through to see the surprising things flocks of birds can teach us.