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Owls (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Tom Cox @cox tom

Almost certainly the best thing I wa ever told about owls was when I met an owl handler and he told me that the wild owls in the sanctuary where he worked worried about the tame show owls there and sometimes stopped by to leave them shrews and mice as presents.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That last one was very specific

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The last one was an experiment to see what corvids teach to their young and what knowledge is just inborn to them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Very cool!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, that is what I was referencing. Im on mobile so links I cant figure out. Does anyone feel like heroing up and linking the study?

Edit: removed gender pronoun

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It was one guy with a caveman mask and one with a Dick Cheney mask. Dick was ironically the neutral or good (control) person who did nothing and the caveman was the bad (treatment) person who once trapped some crows and then released them.

Wildly speculating but could it be that knowledge about skills of corvidae goes back a bit and Hitchcocks "The Birds" wasn't just fiction?

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/uw-professor-learns-crows-dont-forget-a-face/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Thank you!