Mental time-travel, the ability to use memories of past experiences and plan for the future, has traditionally been considered a quality unique to humans. Now scientists at the University of Cambridge have identified the same ability in a bird.

Mental time-travel, the ability to use memories of past experiences and plan for the future, has traditionally been considered a quality unique to humans. Now scientists at the University of Cambridge have identified the same ability in a bird.

In a paper published this week in Nature magazine, husband-and-wife research team Drs Nathan Emery and Nicky Clayton describe laboratory tests which show that scrub jays who have experience of stealing food from other birds


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