May 10, 2021 05:19 PM EDT
According to new research from Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, birds are capable of changing their culture to become very efficient. Culture in animals is known to be any behavior they learn from one another, shared by participants of the group, and continued over generations.
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Great Tits
Cultural traditions are known to be found in most animal groups, both dolphins and whales, primates, birds, and rodents. Great tits give a classic instance of animal culture. Birds in a town in Great Britain in the 1920s were noticed to open the foil tops of milk bottles in order to steal some cream without permission.
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VIDEO: Automated puzzle boxes, which gave a food reward if solved, were used to test if groups could change a socially learned feeding tradition. When a bird solved the puzzle, the. view more
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Researchers at the University of Konstanz and Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior in Germany have found that birds are able to change their culture to become more efficient. Populations of great tits were able to switch from one behavior to a better alternative when their group members were slowly replaced with new birds. Published today as open access in the journal
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