I think there have been experiments done in which birds learn to squawk at
cereal packets because, through a sort of trick-mirror setup, they can see
an older bird apparently doing the same (it's squawking, and apparently
looking at a cereal packet), though in fact the older bird's squawking at a
model owl.
In this case, has that behaviour of squawking been transmitted culturally?
[I was nattering to an animal behaviourist last night... crazy business...]
Dave Pape
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