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Bird Song and Parallel Evolution: learning from our feathered friends

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It is, rather, determined by its correct learning of the song as it is sung locally by members of its species, plus other non-genetic factors we will not investigate today. Blackbirds sing higher-pitched songs in cities: adaptation to habitat acoustics or side-effect of urbanization? 2010.0437 3 Nemeth, Erwin and Henrik Brumm.

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

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One of the established ways to evaluate self-cognition in animals (including humans) is the mirror test. In the classic test, an animal is anesthetized and then marked on an area of the body the animal cannot normally see. When the animal recovers from the anesthetic, it is given access to a mirror. Sometimes it works.

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