
The Secret Life of Birds
The Infinite Monkey Cage
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How to Put a Food Reward on a Bird of Prey
Corbids are best known for having younow, really intelligent of appearance to them. But we done tests wih with keers alpine parrots in new zealand and also with a bird called the streated caracara in the falklands. We took in these these tests hih they'd never seen before, which were perspects tubes with a food reward at the top. The intriguing thing is, what happens when you put it back a second time? Because the second time, they do the whole manoeuvre in about two minutes. And the third time you put it out, they solve it instantaneously. So it's not necessarily they're figuring out how to do
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