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Pigeons can discriminate between other individual pigeons, and can use the behaviour of another individual as a cue to tell them what response to make. Pigeons readily learn to make discriminative responses to different categories of stimuli, defined either by arbitrary rules (e.g. green triangles) or by human concepts (e.g. pictures of human ...
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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 ...
Counting has traditionally been considered an ability that shows intelligence. Anecdotal evidence from the 1960s has suggested that crows can count up to 3. [2] Researchers need to be cautious, however, and ensure that birds are not merely demonstrating the ability to subitize, or count a small number of items quickly.
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Project Pigeon was briefly revived by the Navy in 1948 as "Project Orcon," but it was again cancelled in 1953 when the reliability of electronic guidance systems was proven. Skinner was awarded the 2024 Ig Nobel Peace Prize for his work on the project; his daughter Julie Vargas , who received the award in his stead, is quoted as saying, "I want ...
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