Ready for some social learning Jessica McLachlan
When a bird tweets an alarm call itâs not necessarily just its family members who get the message. Some birds respond to an alarm even if it comes from a member of a different bird species â and now we have a better idea of how they learn to do so.
Robert Magrath at the Australian National University in Canberra and his colleagues played a computer-generated âbuzzâ to eight superb fairy-wrens in a nearby botanic gardens. None of the birds flew away and sought cover after hearing the sound.
Next, over the course…
