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Researchers taught 18 pet parrots to ring a bell and select another bird???s picture on a touchscreen to request a video call. During 147 bird-initiated calls, the parrots developed preferred partners and preened, sang and played toward the screen??? while caregi
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (1452+ words) Fifteen of the 18 recruited parrots made 147 voluntary calls after training. The behavior was real, but preferred partners and newly learned skills require careful reading. By Natural History · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September 11, 2026 · How we edit A parrot ringing a…...
A coyote somehow swam two miles to Alcatraz, vanished before cameras could find him again, and DNA in his droppings revealed he had crossed from Angel Island, not nearby San Francisco as biologists expected
1+ week, 5+ day ago (713+ words) By Science Blog Editorial Team Published September 2, 2026 · How we edit Alcatraz was built on the assumption that its water would do the guarding. Cold, fast and mean enough that, per Associated Press reporting on the island’s history, 36 men attempted 14 escapes…...
When pandemic traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge fell to levels not seen since the 1950s, San Francisco's white-crowned sparrows quickly began singing more softly — yet in the quieter city their songs could be heard from roughly twice as far away
2+ week, 6+ day ago (663+ words) In the spring of 2020, San Francisco went quiet. The parks were closed, the roads through them empty, and the low mechanical hum that had covered the city for decades drained away. Published August 25, 2026 · How we edit That is the heart…...
Pigeons were trained to tell a Monet from a Picasso, and then did something odder — shown paintings they had never seen, they sorted Cezanne with the Monets and Braque with the Picassos.
3+ week, 3+ day ago (402+ words) The birds had grasped something deeper than memorization—a visual principle that let them recognize artistic style in works they'd never encountered. By Science Blog Editorial Team · Edited by Mal James Published August 20, 2026 · How we edit We are not psychologists…...
A juvenile bar-tailed godwit flew 13,560 kilometres from Alaska to Tasmania in October 2022 without landing once — 11 days continuously over the Pacific with no food or rest, despite never having made the journey before.
4+ week, 1+ day ago (815+ words) Satellite-tagged juvenile godwit B6 remained airborne from Alaska to Tasmania for 11 days and one hour, while later track models place the distance between about 13,391 and 13,560 kilometres. By Natural History · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 15, 2026 · How we edit B6 was one of…...