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The Incredulous New Caledonian Crows

10,000 Birds

And most recently, a team of researchers from New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and Austria have demonstrated that New Caledonian Crows understand UCAs. The next graph shows the average number of times per trial that the crow decided to abandon an effort to get at the food. Here’s the idea.

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Revenge Birding (Shanghai, early June 2022)

10,000 Birds

In conclusion, an experience that will put me off buying anything from that company ever. If you are looking for a use of a cardboard box, one of the more interesting ideas is to use it to house an abandoned juvenile Striated Heron. In New Zealand, the Spotted Dove is an introduced species.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

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Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences? Sometimes a chimpanzee, usually an adult male, will dance at a waterfall with total abandon. by Marc Bekoff. Nonetheless, they adjusted their behavior to allow Babyl to remain with the group.

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