Talk:Papi/@comment-4916732-20150910115921/@comment-26824352-20150910145913

That's an exaggeration. Of course a brain wouldn't reset after three steps, because then we have the debate about what constitutes a reset and what counts as a step. As an avian brain, however, it would have very poor short-term memory: avians don't tend to have to be very memorable. They don't have to learn landmarks or even routes to food because they can bypass terrestrial obstacles via flight. Papi is airheaded, but she cn still remember things very important to her, or at leaast recognize when she has forgotten something important to her.

Three steps isn't much of an exaggeration, though. Bird brains in general are indeed prone to that measure of forgetfulness.