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Behavioral flexibility is not predicted by innovation or brain size in great-tailed grackles, New Caledonian crows, and Western scrub jays

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Many cross-species studies attest that innovation frequency (novel food types eaten and foraging techniques used) is a measure of behavioral flexibility and show that it positively correlates with relative brain size (corrected for body size). I investigated behavioral flexibility directly in three bird species that vary in innovation frequency and relative brain size, and found that it does not correlate with either variable. These results challenge long-standing assumptions and question the use of proxies for behavioral flexibility.

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