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by rickydroll 883 days ago
> Anyone who's ever interacted with any kind of animal knows how they are intelligent.

Anyone who's ever had backyard chickens knows they are not intelligent. Nature gave them a brain to keep the spinal cord from fraying.

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I'm stealing that line!

But chickens have a social order, keepers say, and more complex behaviour than a naive city slicker might expect. They may not be grandmasters, but they aren't completely stupid.

That line also applies to some management types and children of the rich and powerful.