Watching TV helps birds make better food choices
20 Feb 2020 By watching videos of each other eating, blue tits and great tits can learn to avoid foods that taste disgusting and are potentially toxic, a new...
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Birds learn from each other’s ‘disgust’, enabling insects to evolve bright colours
18 Dec 2017 A new study of TV-watching great tits reveals how they learn through observation. Social interactions within a predator species can have “evolutionary...
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Neighbourhood watch and more: how reed warblers watch out when there’s a cuckoo about
22 Jan 2016 A study of reed warbler behaviour reveals for the first time that in assessing the risks posed by cuckoos the birds combine information from multiple...
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