Heavy metal poisoning may be changing birds’ personalities
22 March 2018
Great tits exposed to toxic metals like cadmium and lead alter their behaviour, becoming less exploratory and more cautious, suggesting their personalities have been reshaped
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Ravens can plan for future as well as 4-year-old children can
13 July 2017
The smart birds seem to have evolved this flexible cognitive ability independently from hominids as the two lineages diverged about 320 million years ago
Consciousness helps us learn quickly in a changing world
27 June 2017
What's the point of consciousness? Experiments suggest it evolved to help us learn and adapt more rapidly than we could without it
