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“Understanding Animal Behaviour” by Rory Putman

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This non-technical book is a development from a series of lectures, tried and tested in numerous adult education courses given to non-specialists. Lucky and his instructor were successful in bluffing this particular bear, yet the very next year in the same area, Hoshino was killed by a Brown Bear. Arctic tern, Sterna paradisaea.

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

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One of the established ways to evaluate self-cognition in animals (including humans) is the mirror test. In the classic test, an animal is anesthetized and then marked on an area of the body the animal cannot normally see. I wonder if the color blue has some politically incorrect associations. Sometimes it works.

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