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Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2021 Coming from the vantage point of managing human relations to potentially problematic wildlife, we bring the following questions: Where do people’s emotionally vigorous and polarized reactions originate?
Uta Maria Jürgens +3 more
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eLife, 2021 Eurasian jays have been reported to protect their caches by responding to cues about either the visual perspective or current desire of an observing conspecific, similarly to other corvids.
Piero Amodio +4 more
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Is the Hitchcock Story Really True? Public Opinion on Hooded Crows in Cities as Input to Management
Animals, 2022 In recent years, the Hooded crow (Corvus cornix) has become one of the most successful wild bird species in urban environments across Europe. Hooded crows can cause several problems in cities, including trash scattering, noise disturbance, and aggressive
László Kövér +8 more
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How Flexible is Tool Use in Eurasian Jays (Garrulus glandarius)? [PDF]
Animal Behavior and Cognition, 2020 Eurasian jays (Garrulus glandarius) do not habitually use tools, yet they can be trained to solve object-dropping tasks, i.e., to insert a tool into an apparatus to release a food reward.
Piero Amodio +4 more
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Cats parallel great apes and corvids in motor self-regulation, but size matters [PDF]
, 2017 We tested domestic cats in the cylinder task, and found that they perform better ifthe cylinder is larger. We also found that their highest performance parallels that ofgreat apes and corvids, which are known as the best performing animals on this task ...
Osvath, Mathias, BOBROWICZ, Katarzyna
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Blood parasite infections in a wild population of ravens (Corvus corax) in Bulgaria
Malaria Journal, 2018 Background Blood parasites have been studied intensely in many families of avian hosts, but corvids, a particularly cosmopolitan family, remain underexplored.
Peter Shurulinkov +3 more
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Microorganisms, 2020 The study examines whether crows are carriers of extraintestinal pathogenic E. coli (ExPEC) and avian pathogenic E. coli (APEC)-like strains, and if wetland roost areas contribute to their spread. A total of 10 crow feces (n = 71) and 15 water E.
Keya Sen +8 more
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Sign Systems Studies, 2023 The case study described in this paper is part of an emerging cultural context in both its scientific as well as societal aspects, where animals are seen more and more as social and ethical subjects and their presence in the vicinity of humans is seen ...
Pauline Delahaye
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Cognition As a Natural Kind [PDF]
Organon FIn corvids and apes, cognition evolved convergently instead of being inherited by a shared ancestor. In biology, natural kinds are classified according to common ancestry.
Selen Fettahoğlu
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019 It is well-known that some members of the crow family (Corvidae) are important for seed dispersal either via frugivory (e.g., when feeding on berries) or by scatter hoarding (e.g., of nuts). Dispersal via gut passage of seeds within a fleshy fruit can be
Andy J. Green +2 more
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