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The Incredulous New Caledonian Crows

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This is something not seen in very young children but then typically develops and becomes observable and testable by psychology graduate students who have done innumerable studies on it. And most recently, a team of researchers from New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and Austria have demonstrated that New Caledonian Crows understand UCAs.

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Week Five: We arrive in the land of Kiwis

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I have now flown to New Zealand, in search of as many new bird species as I can track down, at a semi-pedestrian pace, mixed with some normal tourist activities. Mark it down as a “Zero” day for new birds. Seattle to Los Angeles, to Auckland New Zealand, and then to Christchurch, N.Z. It is gone.