Re: intelligence?

[Leigh Hauter]

Has anyone ever observed guinea fowl that were actually raised by parent guinea fowl? I wonder if they are so apparently dumb because they are missing the transference of guinea fowl culture (as in, how dumb would human babies grow up to be if they were raised without human adults or access to human culture)/ At least this might be one explanation of their apparent idiocy. How do these birds survive the predators in their native Africa? They sure don't last very long on our farm in Virginia (though we do have two who have been around for several years while others have come and eventually been eaten by various predators.