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Do birds avoid predators because of culture?

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In particular, birds that hang around with humans who don’t happen to hunt or eat them can become very tame. But, if you capture wild birds (to make them pets) then breed them through one generation and they get out, they are bad at avoiding predators. Presumably the humans keep away the predators.

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