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Translated from ancient Sumerian by: David Morgan-Mar

The author writes:

The horn-tailed pipwit is, by most accounts, not a particularly intelligent bird.

The fact that it can't recognise itself in a mirror is secondary to the fact that it can't recognise its own leg as part of itself.

Biological researchers rate the pipwit somewhere below flatworms in terms of usefulness in investigating animal psychology. One scientist in particular earned fame for stating that the pipwit was so stupid that it would swarm after a queen bee - only to be proved embarrassingly correct by a rival.