Jennifer Ackerman

Jennifer Ackerman

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Jennifer Ackerman is the author of The Bird Way, The Genius of Birds and What an Owl Knows. Her essays have appeared in National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, Scientific American, and many other publications.

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The wizardly owl brain uses “Bayesian inference” to find prey
The space‑specific neurons in the owl’s specialized auditory brain can do advanced math.
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