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Birds Hold Funerals For Fallen Comrades (1 Viewer)
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swankyspoon
Well-known member
Whoah. That's really interesting.
Wow, fascinating! Western Scrub Jays--beautiful, intelligent, confiding--are probably my favorite birds but I never would have believed it, even of them! I watch the resident flock in my backyard every day & am continually struck by the complexity (& opacity, for the most part) of their behavior, particularly their interactions with their fellows. The only dead one I've ever seen was in the claws of a Cooper's Hawk a year or 2 ago, but the carcass was carried off & plucked & eaten elsewhere so there was no opportunity to see how other jays might have reacted.
stonechat1
New member
Original study:
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=10325
I read also about it in my newspaper two days ago.
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=10325
I read also about it in my newspaper two days ago.
George London
Well-known member
Not necessarily Petopan... After all, the article says:
"The researchers think this behavior might have evolved in order to warn other birds of potential nearby danger, lowering their risk of encountering whatever killed the original bird".
That sounds like a survival technique to me.
"The researchers think this behavior might have evolved in order to warn other birds of potential nearby danger, lowering their risk of encountering whatever killed the original bird".
That sounds like a survival technique to me.
The great apes, I guess, and us of course, but any other examples? Cetaceans, maybe?
Here’s yet further evidence of the complex cognitive & emotional life of small corvids:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way...-like-people-have-awareness-of-mates-feelings
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way...-like-people-have-awareness-of-mates-feelings
