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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.
Comparative psychology is sometimes assumed to emphasize cross-species comparisons, including those between humans and animals. However, some researchers feel that direct comparisons should not be the sole focus of comparative psychology and that intense focus on a single organism to understand its behavior is just as desirable; if not more so.
On "True Life: I Have A Strange Phobia," we met Andrea who was practically paralyzed by her fear of birds. After a childhood trauma, Andrea was so scared of pigeons that she could barely take care ...
Pigeon is a generalized term for a variety of breeds and even species of birds, but the urban pests most people use the word for are technically “rock doves.” The wild version of the animals ...
In the past, humans owned cats for work purposes. The most common job for cats is killing or scaring off vermin such as pigeons and rodents. Additionally, cats (particularly puppy cats) have also been used as protection animals for their owners. [21] [22] Another job cats have been known to perform for humans is serving as therapy cats for ...
People started falsely claiming that pigeons spread disease at a higher rates than other animals. Which is obviously a far cry from the days that we used to eat pigeons for food. Today pigeons ...
Whether fairly or not, the performance of animals is often compared to that of humans on cognitive tasks. Our closest biological relatives, the great apes, tend to perform most like humans. Among the birds, corvids and parrots have typically been found to perform well on human-like tasks. [171]
Psycho-neuro-ethological triangulation with both humans and animals allows for further experimentation into animal emotions. Utilizing specific animals that exhibit indicators of emotional states to decode underlying neural systems aids in the discovery of critical brain variables that regulate animal emotional expressions.