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Sandwich Tern in New York

10,000 Birds

It was back in July of 2009 , the day that I saw more species of tern than any other day of my life, and I have no pictures of my first Thalasseus sandvicensis because I had managed to forget my digiscoping adapter that day. No, Sandwich Terns are rather boringly named after their type locality, Sandwich, Kent, United Kingdom.

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The Incredulous New Caledonian Crows

10,000 Birds

It turns out, for example, that “Theory of Mind” is very rare in the animal kingdom. Even among our primate relatives, whoa are generally very smart, “Theory of Mind” is found in only a few species. The next graph shows the average number of times per trial that the crow decided to abandon an effort to get at the food.

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