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Pigeons have the capacity to share attention between different dimensions of a stimulus, but (like humans and other animals) their performance with multiple dimensions is worse than with a single stimulus dimension. Pigeons can be taught relatively complex actions and response sequences, and can learn to make responses in different sequences.
Bird intelligence has been studied through several attributes and abilities. Many of these studies have been on birds such as quail , domestic fowl , and pigeons kept under captive conditions. It has, however, been noted that field studies have been limited, unlike those of the apes.
The pigeons, depressed after hearing the story's ending, protest the story's unfair treatment of birds in the hopes of getting it banned. To rectify the situation, Lionel and Leona rewrite the story so that the crow now holds an incredibly big piece of cheese in her beak, which hits the fox on the head when it's dropped.
Research in pigeons is widespread, encompassing shape and texture perception, exemplar and prototype memory, category-based and associative concepts, and many more unlisted here (see pigeon intelligence). Pigeons are able to acquire orthographic processing skills, [48] which form part of the ability to read, and basic numerical skills ...
Homing pigeons such as these served with the Confidential Pigeon Service. According to a 2007 newspaper report, [ 1 ] Source Columba ( Latin columba , "pigeon") was the code name for the Confidential Pigeon Service , an unconventional British intelligence gathering operation in World War II .
The Life of Birds is a BBC nature documentary series written and presented by David Attenborough, first transmitted in the United Kingdom from 21 October 1998.. A study of the evolution and habits of birds, it was the third of Attenborough's specialised surveys following his major trilogy that began with Life on Earth.
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