There's a lot going on in those bird brains.

这些鸟的大脑里可是有很多东西的。

Other blood vessels take over and keep supplying blood to the bird's brain.

其他血管接管并继续向鸟的大脑供应血液。

Still, the detailed, internal organization of bird brains hadn't been explored until now.

尽管如此，鸟类大脑的详细内部组织直到现在仍未得到探索。

Those images are helping them understand how signals from the birds' brains are similar to the process humans use when learning to talk.

这些图像帮助研究人员发现鸟类大脑的信号跟人类学习走路时发出的信号在哪些方面十分相似。

Early models proposed that only a small region of bird brains was responsible for complex behaviors, but this has been revised in recent years.

早期的模型提出，只有一小部分鸟类大脑负责复杂的行为，但近年来这一观点得到了修正。

Now, what we would predict, just on the basis of our understanding of bird brains and bird vision, that these feathers were probably brightly colored.

现在， 根据我们对鸟类大脑和鸟类视觉的理解，我们可以预测这些羽毛可能颜色鲜艳。

An engineer would say woodpecker brains and human brains are built from the same material, but the mathematics of scale mean that bird brains can take a bigger banging.

工程师会说啄木鸟的大脑和人脑是用同一种材料制造的，但是数学中的比例概念意味着鸟的大脑可以承受更大的撞击。

Researchers shined different angles of light into extremely thin slices of the pallium, the area of bird brains with a similar function to the neocortex of mammals.

研究人员将不同角度的光照射到极薄的大脑皮层切片上，大脑皮层是鸟类大脑的区域，与哺乳动物的新皮质具有相似的功能。

So, anyone with such a bird-sized brain was thought to be not that intelligent. But calling someone a bird brain might not be as insulting as it once was.

因此，任何拥有如此鸟类大脑的人都被认为没有那么聪明。但称某人为鸟脑可能不像以前那样具有侮辱性。

They found that the reports of the lack of intelligence of the dodo were not borne out by their research, which suggested the bird's brain was not small, but average in size.

他们发现渡渡鸟缺乏智力的报道并没有被他们的研究所证实，这表明渡渡鸟的大脑不是小的，而是中等大小的。