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The California scrub jay hides caches of food and will later re-hide food if it was watched by another bird the first time, but only if the bird hiding the food has itself stolen food before from a cache. [72] A male Eurasian jay takes into account which food his bonded partner prefers to eat when feeding her during courtship feeding rituals. [73]
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.
A human touching or handling eggs or baby birds will not cause the adult birds to abandon them. [55] The same is generally true for other animals having their young touched by humans as well, with the possible exception of rabbits (as rabbits will sometimes abandon their nest after an event they perceive as traumatizing).
Providing birds with a safe and warm space is just as vital as extra food at this time of year. "Robins often use nest boxes as roosting sites during the winter, so putting up a suitable nest box ...
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Birds were one of the first animal species tested on their number sense. A raven named Jacob was able to distinguish the number 5 across different tasks in the experiments by Otto Koehler. [ 5 ] Later experiments supported the claim of existence of a number sense in birds, with Alex , a grey parrot, able to label and comprehend labels for sets ...
Navigating the grocery aisle is overwhelming, especially when trying to make sense of food labels. Nutrition claims like “sugar-free” or “reduced fat” are hard enough to parse, even when ...
While food labels do house so much important information about our groceries, they often don't tell us the full story. Brands are not required to put certain ingredients on the label that you may ...