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Great Tit Telomeres, Baby Talk, Brainy Birds

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More on this here , as well as some audio examples for you to listen to. For example, some of that brainy tissue needed to be a singing, territory defending, mate seeking male bird is added during breeding season, and removed later when not needed. And the more the juveniles paid attention, the better they learned. Here’s the problem.

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The Incredulous New Caledonian Crows

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For example, humans have “Theory of Mind” which is not a theory in the scientific sense, but rather, a capacity whereby we have an internal theory of what is going on in other people’s minds. It turns out, for example, that “Theory of Mind” is very rare in the animal kingdom.

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