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A great tit wearing a radiofrequency identification tag. Photo: James ONeill

Blue and great tits deploy surprisingly powerful memories to find food, a new study shows

03 Jul 2024

Blue and great tits recall what they have eaten in the past, where they found the food and when they found it, a new study shows. In the first...

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A Humboldt's squirrel monkey is fooled by a French drop as part of the experiment.

Sleight-of-hand magic trick only fools monkeys with opposable thumbs

03 Apr 2023

Illusion involving a hidden thumb confounds capuchin and squirrel monkeys for the same reason as humans – it misdirects the expected outcomes of...

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Male Eurasian jay

Male Eurasian jays know that their female partners’ desires can differ from their own

26 Mar 2014

New research shows that male jays are able to disengage from their own current desires to feed their female partner food that she wants.

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Jackdaw

The eyes have it

05 Feb 2014

Researchers in Cambridge and Exeter have discovered that jackdaws use their eyes to communicate with each other – the first time this has been shown...

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RSC busts

Royal Society announces new Fellows

21 May 2010

Seven Cambridge researchers are among the 44 new Fellows announced by the Royal Society this week.

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birds

The Bird Tango: Cambridge academic fuses love of birds and dance

09 Sep 2009

Nicola Clayton, Professor of Comparative Cognition, has collaborated with the world-famous Rambert Dance Company to produce a contemporary dance...

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Nicola Clayton

Clever crows and dancing duets

01 May 2008

Nicky Clayton, Professor of Comparative Cognition in the Department of Experimental Psychology, has thrown the doors wide open on animal cognition...

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