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Cognition in the Wild, account of the Healy Lab, School of Biology, University of St Andrews
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Maria C Tello-Ramos
9 months ago
🚨New PDRA position available at the Healy Lab🚨 Project on avian nest construction. Duties will include conducting behavioural experiments with zebra finches on nest building. Post available for 24 months starting ASAP. Closing date 18 March
www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...
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Many Minds: Nestcraft
How do birds build their nests? By instinct, of course—at least that's what the conventional wisdom tells us. A swallow builds a swallow's nest; a robin builds a robin's nest. Every bird just follows ...
https://manyminds.libsyn.com/nestcraft
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These birds build together and together they show an architectural style
www.nytimes.com/2024/08/29/c...
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These Architects Embrace Local Styles. And They Fly to Work, Too.
Sparrow weavers in Africa appear to learn distinct building styles that reflect group traditions, research shows. It raises intriguing questions about avian intelligence.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/29/climate/weaver-bird-nests-kalahari-desert.html
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Catherine Sheard
about 1 year ago
And if you want the tl;dr, NPR did a pretty cool piece on this work 😉:
www.npr.org/2024/08/29/n...
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Catherine Sheard
about 1 year ago
Congratulations to Maria Tello-Ramos, Sue Healy, and team for a BEAUTIFUL paper on weaver bird nest building and cultural traditions. This is one for the textbooks!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The book is finally out! "Provides a comprehensive overview of the work that has sought to explain which natural selection pressures impact vertebrate brain size"
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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