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  2. Pigeon intelligence - Wikipedia

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    The birds were first trained on a limited set of paintings. The experiment has shown that a pigeon was able to obtain food by repeated pecking when shown a painting from Picasso; when it was a Monet, pecking had no effect. After a while, the pigeons would only peck when shown Picasso paintings.

  3. Crop milk - Wikipedia

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    Lactation in birds is controlled by prolactin, which is the same hormone that causes lactation in mammals. [ 6 ] [ 5 ] Crop milk is a holocrine secretion, unlike in mammals where milk is an apocrine secretion. [ 5 ]

  4. Bird feeding - Wikipedia

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    Large sums of money are spent by ardent bird feeders, who indulge their wild birds with a variety of bird foods and bird feeders. Over 55 million Americans over the age of 16 feed wild birds and spend more than $3 billion a year on bird food, and $800 million a year on bird feeders, bird baths, bird houses and other bird feeding accessories. [22]

  5. Bird intelligence - Wikipedia

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    The researchers found that food-storing birds performed better in phase two than non-storing birds. [17] While food-storing birds preferentially returned to the rewarding sites, non-storing birds preferentially returned to previously visited sites, regardless of the presence of a reward. [17] If the food reward was visible in phase one, there ...

  6. Avian foraging - Wikipedia

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    Avian foraging refers to the range of activities and behaviours exhibited by birds in their quest for food. In addition to their unique body adaptations, birds have a range of described behaviours that differ from the foraging behaviours of other animal groups. According to the foraging habitat, birds may be grouped into foraging guilds ...

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  8. Human uses of birds - Wikipedia

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    Human uses of birds have, for thousands of years, included both economic uses such as food, and symbolic uses such as art, music, and religion. In terms of economic uses, birds have been hunted for food since Palaeolithic times. They have been captured and bred as poultry to provide meat and eggs since at least the time of ancient Egypt.

  9. Maleo - Wikipedia

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    The young birds are able to fly and are totally independent. They must find food and defend themselves from predators such as monitor lizards , reticulated pythons , wild pigs , and cats. The maleo is monogamous and members of a pair stay close to each other all the time.