World’s Smartest Bird on Brink of Extinction in New Zealand
The cheeky kea, a type of parrot native to New Zealand, is under “severe stress,” according to conservationists.
The bird was determined to be the smartest in the world by the Institute of Cognitive Biology in Vienna, even concluding that its intelligence rivals some primates. In the 1990’s, 15,000 of the birds soared above New Zealand’s South Island, but today only an estimated 1,000 remain.
