4/10/2009 - Gaming Chicken

Hate when that happens.

Am I the only one who doesn't get what this "math chicken" is all about? :( Maybe cause I'm from the caribbean!

Behavorial science experiments going back at least to the 50's maybe earlier.  It was discovered that birds can count, add and subtract objects.  They also learned to peck out a required number of responses on a keyboard or a required sequence on a keyboard in order to get food or water.  Magpies, crows and ravens did best but even chickens did amazingly well and were often shown on television as part of a science program how a chicken could learn to recognize objects on a keyboard and peck on them in a sequence to get the reward they were after. 

Sorry about the delay.  We should have several comics in a row soon.

Wow Grump, that was a great response!  I don't get emailed updates until I post my first comment, I need to fix that soon.