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Taste as a tool

AVMA News

Researchers at Hill’s Pet Nutrition and elsewhere have spent decades gathering data about food palatability and investigating why pets have certain taste preferences.

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Some Ingenuity Can Go a Long Way

10,000 Birds

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. Among Woodpecker Finches, young birds quickly learn to use tools by watching how adult birds do it. Woodpecker Finch using a tool.

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The Incredulous New Caledonian Crows

10,000 Birds

Capuchin monkeys, macaques, Cotton Top Tamarins, Chimpanzees, and many other animals, including various birds, have been investigated and found to be unable to make inferences about HCAs. During habituation, learning to use the tool to get into this particular box, the crows never gave up.

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The Birds That Audubon Missed: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

It’s also about personal journeys, where knowledge comes from and how it is shared, investigating the past through the lens of history and the lens of informed imagination, learning how to negotiate the grays of our ornithological heritage, and the magic of discovery. I really enjoyed these sections.

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This Week in Bird News: Junk Food Junkies, Snacks on a String, and More

10,000 Birds

To wit: In an experiment informally called the “Cheetos Challenge,” a scientist investigated whether magpies or crows would be quicker to develop a taste for Cheetos—and which birds would ultimately steal them from the others. (Those who prefer observing living avians, rather than hurling digital ones at marauding pigs.)

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Crossbill Guides: Interview with Dirk Hilbers

10,000 Birds

Besides that, I teach environmental ethics courses for biology students at the university and currently I am working also on an exciting project of producing a simulation game called ecosim (primarily an education tool for students) in which the player has to fulfil conservation tasks in an interactive ecosystem (e.g.

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4 Strategies To Effectively Scale Your Sales Team

Sales and Marketing Management

If this is something you are investigating, Lever is a useful tool that can help link potential hire’s sales persona and your approach. . Much is the same when adding new sales leaders to your sales structure. Look for missing gaps in your current sales team, and find industry professionals that can execute those tasks.

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