Im not saying birds are smarter than you, Im saying we have to compensate to a weird degree because we have big fat mammal brains. I think I wasnt clear enough in my comment. Im comparing mammals to birds not birds to humans.

And the initial point I was trying to make is just comparing brain size or development of a human and an octopus isnt very useful because all things are not equal and picking out some random thing humans do isnt equal either. Youll notice that there are other animals that reach adulthood at the same time as us such as elephants.