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Do birds avoid predators because of culture?

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My research in the Congo supports this idea. I spent a lot of time with Efe Pygmy hunters in the deep forest, and I spent a certain amount of time either entirely alone or with only one other researcher, this or that American. I suspect social learning, well documented in birds.) Clearly, more research is needed!

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan

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It seems that this is another species for which the standard phrase of scientists anywhere, “more research needed”, applies. If you are afraid of spiders, you might want to get a pet Streaked Spiderhunter. ” The Common Green Magpie fortunately does not look common at all. I am only joking! Birds should be free.

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Birds and People: A Book Review

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We sing about them, we paint them, we use them as mythic and poetic symbols for our spiritual and emotional feelings, we wear them in myriad and often colorful ways, we adopt them as household pets. Jonathan Elphick and John Fanshawe provided “specialist research” and support.” But, this is not a reference book in the classic sense.

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