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The Incredulous New Caledonian Crows

10,000 Birds

A number of research projects have sought to determine if some of these human brain abilities are found in other animals. And most recently, a team of researchers from New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and Austria have demonstrated that New Caledonian Crows understand UCAs. But that’s another story. The graph shows the results.

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Some Ingenuity Can Go a Long Way

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The use of tool by animals is surprisingly rare. I find fascinating the fact that Egyptian Vultures , New Caledonian Crows and Woodpecker Finches learned to use a tool with tremendous success. Further support for inherent behavior comes from experiments. Woodpecker Finch using a tool. The behavior was inherent.

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The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Relevant Buyer Experiences

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A study from SiriusDecisions found that 81 percent of B2B buyers today make purchase decisions based on buying experience, rather than product or price. According to Showpad’s New B2B Buyer Experience report , 37 percent of buyers said that sellers provide non-applicable material. But in most cases, sellers are missing the mark.

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How Birds Evolve: What Science Reveals about Their Origin, Lives, and Diversity: A Book Review by a Non-Science Person

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He also believes that we are living in an era of incredible scientific research, one in which new genetic technology and findings from diverse scientific disciplines have turned assumptions upside down, opened up new lines of thought, and provided answers, or at least probable answers, to many of our questions about why birds do the things they do.

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Elevating the customer experience

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: TIM HOULIHAN In a 2018 survey, Bain & Company discovered that 80 percent of companies believe their customer experience is not only better than average, it’s “superior.” The trouble is that in the same survey, only 8 percent of customers believed they were receiving a superior experience. Organize for customer experience.

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How to Be a Better Birder: A Review by an Aspiring Birder

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The cover of the book (not of Derek Lovitch) gives you some idea of the tools the better birder needs in the early 21st-century. And one of those tools is Geography. That’s NEXRAD radar map in the left binocular lens and a surface weather map on the right. He currently owns and runs Freeport Wild Bird Supply in Maine.)

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Galápagos: A Natural History, Second Edition–A Book Review

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Galápagos: A Natural History, Second Edition by John Kricher and Kevin Loughlin gives the traveling naturalist the tools needed to fully appreciate and experience the Galápagos Islands. The 11th chapter is on research and conservation challenges. Still, I wish I had prepared. I wish I had read this book.

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