Meet The Bird Brainiacs Kat Mcgowan Analysis

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The lives of humans and the lives of the corvids are similar because we both have character traits and we both live in this world. We humans have something that makes us tick, we have emotions, we communicate with one another, and we learn whether it’s a school or from our mistakes or from each other, sometimes we even work in small groups to accomplish a task, even the corvids. Choosing my resource “Meet the Bird Brainiacs: American Crow” by Kat McGowan and my personal experiences will show why the lives of humans and the lives of corvids are similar. According to the article “Meet the Bird Brainiacs: American Crow” by Kat McGowan, mention, John Marzluff was doing a research on what made this crows tick and see how the brain works. “But

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