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And for those who say the Economics prize is not in fact a true Nobel Prize: Yes, you're right.
Quoting the Nobel Foundation itself:
The prize in economic sciences is not a Nobel Prize. In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden’s central bank) instituted “The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel”, and it has since been awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences according to the same principles as for the Nobel Prizes that have been awarded since 1901. The first prize in economic sciencess was awarded to Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen in 1969.
https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/economic-sciences/
#NobelPrize #Nobel2023 #Economics #NotARealNobelPrize #Riksbank #EconomicsNobel #NobelEconomics
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And for those who say the Economics prize is not in fact a true Nobel Prize: Yes, you're right.
Quoting the Nobel Foundation itself:
The prize in economic sciences is not a Nobel Prize. In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden’s central bank) instituted “The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel”, and it has since been awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences according to the same principles as for the Nobel Prizes that have been awarded since 1901. The first prize in economic sciencess was awarded to Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen in 1969.
https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/economic-sciences/
#NobelPrize #Nobel2023 #Economics #NotARealNobelPrize #Riksbank #EconomicsNobel #NobelEconomics
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And for those who say the Economics prize is not in fact a true Nobel Prize: Yes, you're right.
Quoting the Nobel Foundation itself:
The prize in economic sciences is not a Nobel Prize. In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden’s central bank) instituted “The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel”, and it has since been awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences according to the same principles as for the Nobel Prizes that have been awarded since 1901. The first prize in economic sciencess was awarded to Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen in 1969.
https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/economic-sciences/
#NobelPrize #Nobel2023 #Economics #NotARealNobelPrize #Riksbank #EconomicsNobel #NobelEconomics
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New tutorial paper describing the use of a simple #NonParametric #statistics method for analysing #RepeatedMeasures data with a focus on individual-level results https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00133
All data and #Rstats code needed to reproduce the analyses is available here https://osf.io/w32dk/
An #Rstats package which implements the method is available on CRAN https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=opa
The latest development version can be downloaded from githib https://github.com/timbeechey/opa
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MATINEE PUNK GIG : HEZ + PISUAR + TBA // 18.07 at SYRENA
SYRENA, sobota, 18 lipca 14:00 CEST
CONSTANT EAST PREZENTUJE:
Sobota syrena matinee pilates club zaprasza na zajęcia ruchowe oraz dźwiękonaśladowcze warsztaty, które poprowadzą pies w apaszcze z naszywką moskwa oraz karaluch w glanach.
HEZ - Lawa Hardcore punk z Panamy.
Jeśli najwyższym szczytem kraju z którego pochodzisz jest wulkan to oczywiste jest, że będzie jebana tupa tupa do bólu. Hez napierdala tak jak się powinno napierdalać bez zadawania zbędnych pytań. Gitara drąży ci dziurę w czole, bęben pędzi na oślep nic tylko poczekać na zwolnienie i pełzać a przy szybszym fragmencie wić się w konwulsjach jak po ukąszeniu pająka. Kochasz delay na wokalu i jak pot kapie na przedłużacz? Kanał panamski ale cały zajebany puszkami i czaszkami. Pogo kurwa i od ściany do ściany bokiem bo nadchodzi Hez z łańcuchem i wypija ci piwo.
https://hez666.bandcamp.com/album/detrimento
PISUAR - kredyt hardcore ale na niskim procencie
Klatka robi się coraz ciaśniejsza a obiecana podwyżka nigdy nie nadejdzie. Reklamy leków, wakacji oraz samochodów to codzienność, która oblepia cię i dusi niczym nieskończone pytania kiedy założysz rodzinę i się ustatkujesz.
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KIEDY? 18.07 - 14:00 - MATINEE!!!!!
GDZIE? SYRENA - WILCZA 30
ZA ILE? 40 PLNhttps://warszawa.askapunk.net/event/matinee-punk-gig-hez-pisuar-tba-1807-at-syrena
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MATINEE PUNK GIG : HEZ + PISUAR + TBA // 18.07 at SYRENA
SYRENA, sobota, 18 lipca 14:00 CEST
CONSTANT EAST PREZENTUJE:
Sobota syrena matinee pilates club zaprasza na zajęcia ruchowe oraz dźwiękonaśladowcze warsztaty, które poprowadzą pies w apaszcze z naszywką moskwa oraz karaluch w glanach.
HEZ - Lawa Hardcore punk z Panamy.
Jeśli najwyższym szczytem kraju z którego pochodzisz jest wulkan to oczywiste jest, że będzie jebana tupa tupa do bólu. Hez napierdala tak jak się powinno napierdalać bez zadawania zbędnych pytań. Gitara drąży ci dziurę w czole, bęben pędzi na oślep nic tylko poczekać na zwolnienie i pełzać a przy szybszym fragmencie wić się w konwulsjach jak po ukąszeniu pająka. Kochasz delay na wokalu i jak pot kapie na przedłużacz? Kanał panamski ale cały zajebany puszkami i czaszkami. Pogo kurwa i od ściany do ściany bokiem bo nadchodzi Hez z łańcuchem i wypija ci piwo.
https://hez666.bandcamp.com/album/detrimento
PISUAR - kredyt hardcore ale na niskim procencie
Klatka robi się coraz ciaśniejsza a obiecana podwyżka nigdy nie nadejdzie. Reklamy leków, wakacji oraz samochodów to codzienność, która oblepia cię i dusi niczym nieskończone pytania kiedy założysz rodzinę i się ustatkujesz.
+ TBA
KIEDY? 18.07 - 14:00 - MATINEE!!!!!
GDZIE? SYRENA - WILCZA 30
ZA ILE? 40 PLNhttps://warszawa.askapunk.net/event/matinee-punk-gig-hez-pisuar-tba-1807-at-syrena
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MATINEE PUNK GIG : HEZ + PISUAR + TBA // 18.07 at SYRENA
SYRENA, sobota, 18 lipca 14:00 CEST
CONSTANT EAST PREZENTUJE:
Sobota syrena matinee pilates club zaprasza na zajęcia ruchowe oraz dźwiękonaśladowcze warsztaty, które poprowadzą pies w apaszcze z naszywką moskwa oraz karaluch w glanach.
HEZ - Lawa Hardcore punk z Panamy.
Jeśli najwyższym szczytem kraju z którego pochodzisz jest wulkan to oczywiste jest, że będzie jebana tupa tupa do bólu. Hez napierdala tak jak się powinno napierdalać bez zadawania zbędnych pytań. Gitara drąży ci dziurę w czole, bęben pędzi na oślep nic tylko poczekać na zwolnienie i pełzać a przy szybszym fragmencie wić się w konwulsjach jak po ukąszeniu pająka. Kochasz delay na wokalu i jak pot kapie na przedłużacz? Kanał panamski ale cały zajebany puszkami i czaszkami. Pogo kurwa i od ściany do ściany bokiem bo nadchodzi Hez z łańcuchem i wypija ci piwo.
https://hez666.bandcamp.com/album/detrimento
PISUAR - kredyt hardcore ale na niskim procencie
Klatka robi się coraz ciaśniejsza a obiecana podwyżka nigdy nie nadejdzie. Reklamy leków, wakacji oraz samochodów to codzienność, która oblepia cię i dusi niczym nieskończone pytania kiedy założysz rodzinę i się ustatkujesz.
+ TBA
KIEDY? 18.07 - 14:00 - MATINEE!!!!!
GDZIE? SYRENA - WILCZA 30
ZA ILE? 40 PLNhttps://warszawa.askapunk.net/event/matinee-punk-gig-hez-pisuar-tba-1807-at-syrena
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Hace unas semanas, mi madre iba a tirar la famiclone con la que crecí, pero le dije que noooo, que era parte de mi infancia. Así que me la dio, en caja casi completa y todo. Hoy la he sacado para desmontarla.
Es una famiclone de las primeras, estaba en mi casa antes de que yo naciera, así que tendrá unos 35 años. Puede que se hubiese comprado entre el 86 y el 88 (yo soy del 89). En esa época la NES estaba completamente en venta, así que no hay duda de que esta es una NES bootleg de cabo a rabo.
Que yo sepa aún funciona, pero tendré que buscar un alimentador. Debajo dice que gasta 4W pero no pone el voltaje.
Aunque la caja ponga lo contrario, nunca se ha usado el slot de cartuchos porque los 120 y algo juegos los lleva internamente. Nunca trajo cartucho.
Se usó frecuentemente hasta probablemente 1999, cuando me regalaron la GBC para Reyes.
Curioso que los chips sean de Goldstar y las CPUs sean clones del 6502 y el 6507, concretamente UMC UA6538 y UMC UA6527P.
Si encuentro un alimentador la enchufaré. Por suerte no tiene ningún condensador jodido.
EDIT: Según la placa base, está fabricada en abril de 1992. Puede que mi memoria falle un poco, entonces.
EDIT 2: Con el alimentador de la Megadrive y un cable RCA que tenía por ahí tirao he conseguido que funcione. Eso sí, los colores de puta pena. En fin, es lo que hay.
Lista de juegos:
1- Contra
2- Super Mario Bros (hackeado, sin el logo)
3- Galaxian
4- Road Fighter
5- Un juego raro de ninjas que se ve mal
6- Combat (?)
7- Antartic Adventure
8- Circus Charlie
9- Binary Land
10- Bomberman 1
11- Ice Climbers
12- Tetris (Tengen) (sin pantalla de título)
13- Tank
14- B-Wings (se cuelga al arrancar)
15- Pac-Man
16- Mappy
17- Kung-Fu
18- Ninja Hattori-kun
19- 1942
20- Xevious
21- Twinbee
22- Chexder
23- Pooyan
24- Star Force
25- Mahjong (?)
26- F-1 Race (?)
27- Sky Destroyer (?)
28- Dig Dug
29- Galaga
30- Exerion
31- Front Line
32- Balloon Fight
#retrogaming #famiclone #famiclon #bootleg #nes #famicom #retro -
Hace unas semanas, mi madre iba a tirar la famiclone con la que crecí, pero le dije que noooo, que era parte de mi infancia. Así que me la dio, en caja casi completa y todo. Hoy la he sacado para desmontarla.
Es una famiclone de las primeras, estaba en mi casa antes de que yo naciera, así que tendrá unos 35 años. Puede que se hubiese comprado entre el 86 y el 88 (yo soy del 89). En esa época la NES estaba completamente en venta, así que no hay duda de que esta es una NES bootleg de cabo a rabo.
Que yo sepa aún funciona, pero tendré que buscar un alimentador. Debajo dice que gasta 4W pero no pone el voltaje.
Aunque la caja ponga lo contrario, nunca se ha usado el slot de cartuchos porque los 120 y algo juegos los lleva internamente. Nunca trajo cartucho.
Se usó frecuentemente hasta probablemente 1999, cuando me regalaron la GBC para Reyes.
Curioso que los chips sean de Goldstar y las CPUs sean clones del 6502 y el 6507, concretamente UMC UA6538 y UMC UA6527P.
Si encuentro un alimentador la enchufaré. Por suerte no tiene ningún condensador jodido.
EDIT: Según la placa base, está fabricada en abril de 1992. Puede que mi memoria falle un poco, entonces.
EDIT 2: Con el alimentador de la Megadrive y un cable RCA que tenía por ahí tirao he conseguido que funcione. Eso sí, los colores de puta pena. En fin, es lo que hay.
Lista de juegos:
1- Contra
2- Super Mario Bros (hackeado, sin el logo)
3- Galaxian
4- Road Fighter
5- Un juego raro de ninjas que se ve mal
6- Combat (?)
7- Antartic Adventure
8- Circus Charlie
9- Binary Land
10- Bomberman 1
11- Ice Climbers
12- Tetris (Tengen) (sin pantalla de título)
13- Tank
14- B-Wings (se cuelga al arrancar)
15- Pac-Man
16- Mappy
17- Kung-Fu
18- Ninja Hattori-kun
19- 1942
20- Xevious
21- Twinbee
22- Chexder
23- Pooyan
24- Star Force
25- Mahjong (?)
26- F-1 Race (?)
27- Sky Destroyer (?)
28- Dig Dug
29- Galaga
30- Exerion
31- Front Line
32- Balloon Fight
#retrogaming #famiclone #famiclon #bootleg #nes #famicom #retro -
Hace unas semanas, mi madre iba a tirar la famiclone con la que crecí, pero le dije que noooo, que era parte de mi infancia. Así que me la dio, en caja casi completa y todo. Hoy la he sacado para desmontarla.
Es una famiclone de las primeras, estaba en mi casa antes de que yo naciera, así que tendrá unos 35 años. Puede que se hubiese comprado entre el 86 y el 88 (yo soy del 89). En esa época la NES estaba completamente en venta, así que no hay duda de que esta es una NES bootleg de cabo a rabo.
Que yo sepa aún funciona, pero tendré que buscar un alimentador. Debajo dice que gasta 4W pero no pone el voltaje.
Aunque la caja ponga lo contrario, nunca se ha usado el slot de cartuchos porque los 120 y algo juegos los lleva internamente. Nunca trajo cartucho.
Se usó frecuentemente hasta probablemente 1999, cuando me regalaron la GBC para Reyes.
Curioso que los chips sean de Goldstar y las CPUs sean clones del 6502 y el 6507, concretamente UMC UA6538 y UMC UA6527P.
Si encuentro un alimentador la enchufaré. Por suerte no tiene ningún condensador jodido.
EDIT: Según la placa base, está fabricada en abril de 1992. Puede que mi memoria falle un poco, entonces.
EDIT 2: Con el alimentador de la Megadrive y un cable RCA que tenía por ahí tirao he conseguido que funcione. Eso sí, los colores de puta pena. En fin, es lo que hay.
Lista de juegos:
1- Contra
2- Super Mario Bros (hackeado, sin el logo)
3- Galaxian
4- Road Fighter
5- Un juego raro de ninjas que se ve mal
6- Combat (?)
7- Antartic Adventure
8- Circus Charlie
9- Binary Land
10- Bomberman 1
11- Ice Climbers
12- Tetris (Tengen) (sin pantalla de título)
13- Tank
14- B-Wings (se cuelga al arrancar)
15- Pac-Man
16- Mappy
17- Kung-Fu
18- Ninja Hattori-kun
19- 1942
20- Xevious
21- Twinbee
22- Chexder
23- Pooyan
24- Star Force
25- Mahjong (?)
26- F-1 Race (?)
27- Sky Destroyer (?)
28- Dig Dug
29- Galaga
30- Exerion
31- Front Line
32- Balloon Fight
#retrogaming #famiclone #famiclon #bootleg #nes #famicom #retro -
Hace unas semanas, mi madre iba a tirar la famiclone con la que crecí, pero le dije que noooo, que era parte de mi infancia. Así que me la dio, en caja casi completa y todo. Hoy la he sacado para desmontarla.
Es una famiclone de las primeras, estaba en mi casa antes de que yo naciera, así que tendrá unos 35 años. Puede que se hubiese comprado entre el 86 y el 88 (yo soy del 89). En esa época la NES estaba completamente en venta, así que no hay duda de que esta es una NES bootleg de cabo a rabo.
Que yo sepa aún funciona, pero tendré que buscar un alimentador. Debajo dice que gasta 4W pero no pone el voltaje.
Aunque la caja ponga lo contrario, nunca se ha usado el slot de cartuchos porque los 120 y algo juegos los lleva internamente. Nunca trajo cartucho.
Se usó frecuentemente hasta probablemente 1999, cuando me regalaron la GBC para Reyes.
Curioso que los chips sean de Goldstar y las CPUs sean clones del 6502 y el 6507, concretamente UMC UA6538 y UMC UA6527P.
Si encuentro un alimentador la enchufaré. Por suerte no tiene ningún condensador jodido.
EDIT: Según la placa base, está fabricada en abril de 1992. Puede que mi memoria falle un poco, entonces.
EDIT 2: Con el alimentador de la Megadrive y un cable RCA que tenía por ahí tirao he conseguido que funcione. Eso sí, los colores de puta pena. En fin, es lo que hay.
Lista de juegos:
1- Contra
2- Super Mario Bros (hackeado, sin el logo)
3- Galaxian
4- Road Fighter
5- Un juego raro de ninjas que se ve mal
6- Combat (?)
7- Antartic Adventure
8- Circus Charlie
9- Binary Land
10- Bomberman 1
11- Ice Climbers
12- Tetris (Tengen) (sin pantalla de título)
13- Tank
14- B-Wings (se cuelga al arrancar)
15- Pac-Man
16- Mappy
17- Kung-Fu
18- Ninja Hattori-kun
19- 1942
20- Xevious
21- Twinbee
22- Chexder
23- Pooyan
24- Star Force
25- Mahjong (?)
26- F-1 Race (?)
27- Sky Destroyer (?)
28- Dig Dug
29- Galaga
30- Exerion
31- Front Line
32- Balloon Fight
#retrogaming #famiclone #famiclon #bootleg #nes #famicom #retro -
Hace unas semanas, mi madre iba a tirar la famiclone con la que crecí, pero le dije que noooo, que era parte de mi infancia. Así que me la dio, en caja casi completa y todo. Hoy la he sacado para desmontarla.
Es una famiclone de las primeras, estaba en mi casa antes de que yo naciera, así que tendrá unos 35 años. Puede que se hubiese comprado entre el 86 y el 88 (yo soy del 89). En esa época la NES estaba completamente en venta, así que no hay duda de que esta es una NES bootleg de cabo a rabo.
Que yo sepa aún funciona, pero tendré que buscar un alimentador. Debajo dice que gasta 4W pero no pone el voltaje.
Aunque la caja ponga lo contrario, nunca se ha usado el slot de cartuchos porque los 120 y algo juegos los lleva internamente. Nunca trajo cartucho.
Se usó frecuentemente hasta probablemente 1999, cuando me regalaron la GBC para Reyes.
Curioso que los chips sean de Goldstar y las CPUs sean clones del 6502 y el 6507, concretamente UMC UA6538 y UMC UA6527P.
Si encuentro un alimentador la enchufaré. Por suerte no tiene ningún condensador jodido.
EDIT: Según la placa base, está fabricada en abril de 1992. Puede que mi memoria falle un poco, entonces.
EDIT 2: Con el alimentador de la Megadrive y un cable RCA que tenía por ahí tirao he conseguido que funcione. Eso sí, los colores de puta pena. En fin, es lo que hay.
Lista de juegos:
1- Contra
2- Super Mario Bros (hackeado, sin el logo)
3- Galaxian
4- Road Fighter
5- Un juego raro de ninjas que se ve mal
6- Combat (?)
7- Antartic Adventure
8- Circus Charlie
9- Binary Land
10- Bomberman 1
11- Ice Climbers
12- Tetris (Tengen) (sin pantalla de título)
13- Tank
14- B-Wings (se cuelga al arrancar)
15- Pac-Man
16- Mappy
17- Kung-Fu
18- Ninja Hattori-kun
19- 1942
20- Xevious
21- Twinbee
22- Chexder
23- Pooyan
24- Star Force
25- Mahjong (?)
26- F-1 Race (?)
27- Sky Destroyer (?)
28- Dig Dug
29- Galaga
30- Exerion
31- Front Line
32- Balloon Fight
#retrogaming #famiclone #famiclon #bootleg #nes #famicom #retro -
Laughs, Cries and Deception: The Complex Lives of Birds
#Birds can certainly get very angry – and the owner of a galah or corella would be well advised not to get near this bird when the head feathers are raised — but birds can be joyful and playful, can get depressed and, as studies have shown, a neglectful or bare environment can even make them pessimistic.
Birds may feel for others (have empathy) and even console them, may have a sense of justice, may show deep affection for their partner and grieve for their loss. I witnessed the mate of a fatally injured tawny frogmouth not moving from the spot next to their dead partner for three days, and then dying on the fourth. 🌴🩸🧐 Be #vegan for them! ❌ #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife
#Parrot #cockatoo lovers will tell you, #birds 🦤🦃🦜🪿🦆🕊️ get angry, feel empathy, have a deep sense of justice and affection for their partners #Bird #intelligence 🌴🩸🧐 Be #vegan for them! ❌#Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/10/20/laughs-cries-and-deception-birds-emotional-lives-are-just-as-complicated-as-ours/
Share to BlueSky Share to TwitterJuly on the Northern Tableland, near Armidale in New South Wales, is usually the beginning of the breeding season and field observations start early.
I sat and watched in freezing temperatures. The sun was just rising above the horizon of this 1000m-high plateau when through binoculars I saw a young lone magpie, walking gingerly, literally tip-toeing, occasionally interrupted by little bouts of running and, unusually, heading straight for its territorial boundary.
In the last stretch to the border, the bird edged along a row of pine trees, staying low, and kept looking over its shoulder, especially when crossing the neighbour’s border. Shortly afterwards, a female was seen in his company.
Later, the male backtracked and, when far enough into his own territory, started foraging rather aimlessly as if nothing had happened.
What had I witnessed? Did this young male magpie understand that he was breaking several important magpie social rules and could face punishment for this transgression if caught? Did he have a sense of morality?
Science has traditionally shunned the idea of emotions in animals, not just for fear of anthropomorphism or over-interpretation, but also because there is a very long cultural history that played out a divide between mind and body and reason and emotions.
Reason, thinking and making judgements were stubbornly thought to be outside the capacity of animals. For a long time it was not believed that animals were even capable of feeling pain, let alone complex emotions. We now know that is far from the truth.
Birds with feelings
Pet owners have always known that their pets can be affectionate, sulky, jealous, sad, excited and deliberately naughty, as well as doing extraordinary things for their owners. The animals we know best in this regard are obviously dogs and cats.
Charles Darwin was the first to discuss emotions in animals in the mid-19th century. A century later, Niko Tinbergen addressed the vexing question of emotions.
Following on from Darwin, he identified “four Fs” as part of survival: fight, flee, fornicate and feed. These translate into basic feelings of fear, hunger and sexual drive – now called motivational states.
Tawny frogmouths are monogamous. cskk/Flickr, CC BY-NC-NDBut there is a lot more to bird emotions. Dangerous and horrible experiences are usually remembered. Memory helps survival. Modern urban birds have been shown to remember faces of people considered dangerous and threatening.
We now know that the bird brain is lateralised (each side of the brain controls a different set of functions) as in humans and other vertebrates. The right hemisphere expresses intense emotions (such as fear and attack). The left hemisphere has routine, considered responses and may inhibit some of the strong responses of the right hemisphere.
So birds are more similar to humans than had ever been thought, but with an important difference: birds are generally not aggressive without cause. Technically, aggression is an emotion that is dysfunctional, has no purpose and often even harms the individual displaying it.
Timneh Parrot Psittacus timnehBirds can certainly get very angry – and the owner of a galah or corella would be well advised not to get near this bird when the head feathers are raised — but birds can be joyful and playful, can get depressed and, as studies have shown, a neglectful or bare environment can even make them pessimistic.
Birds may feel for others (have empathy) and even console them, may have a sense of justice, may show deep affection for their partner and grieve for their loss. I witnessed the mate of a fatally injured tawny frogmouth not moving from the spot next to its dead partner for three days, and then dying on the fourth.
Social smarts
Australian native birds have an unusually high percentage of pair-bonding (over 90% of species) and the highest concentrations of cooperative species (relatives or siblings helping at the nest) anywhere in the world. Cockatoos bonding for life often have intense close partnerships, which are nurtured by constant grooming and attention to each other’s needs.
Such intense cohabitation of individuals, often for many years (how about 60 years of “marriage” in sulphur-crested cockatoos?), may also create frictions and dissatisfactions that require solutions to keep the pair or group together.
For instance, the lazy helper at the nest who only pretends to help in feeding, as happens among white-winged choughs, may get scolded by an adult. A group of apostlebirds building a mud nest together, transporting mud to the nest in relays, may spot an individual that is not pulling its weight.
Apostlebirds breed in families, and all are expected to pull their weight. Gisela Kaplan, Author providedI have witnessed on several occasions near Copeton Dam (in Inverell, NSW) apostlebirds become so outraged that they approach the individual with heightened calling and may even peck it until the intimidated individual falls back into line and does its share.
Empathy, altruism and consoling the injured or vanquished have all been observed in birds, thought to be the ultimate in consideration for another individual’s state of mind.
For instance, there are observations of dusky wood-swallows (belonging to the same family of birds as butcherbirds and magpies) in Western Australia’s Wheatbelt hassling a restless flycatcher with a larva in his beak, perched on a branch. One wood-swallow flew above the flycatcher, while the other simultaneously flew directly at it, snatched the larva from its beak while it was distracted by the other bird hovering overhead, and took it away. So who got the prize?
If all behaviour in animals is selfish, then the one who caught it should have gulped it down, but it did not. It gave it to the bird that had distracted the flycatcher. Perhaps the two birds reversed roles in the next, similar, situation. But it still meant overcoming the temptation to eat.
The noisy miner who defended a puppy. Gisela Kaplan, Author providedA noisy miner, one of the cooperative honeyeaters, I had hand-raised grew up over several weeks in the company of very young ridgeback pups near the edge of a nature reserve in a NSW coastal area.
One pup was sleeping on the porch in the sun and I was some distance away. I was alerted by the alarm calls of the noisy miner and turned around to see it swooping right down to a lace monitor’s head – doing so over and over again. I ran as quickly as I could, by now also shouting once the risk to the pup was more than apparent.
When the monitor spotted me, it turned and fled. The noisy minor had risked its life to save the pup. At no other occasion did the bird attempt to swoop a lace monitor. Its response was very specific to this situation.
And, as I have been asked often, could birds have a sense of humour? Perhaps.
Our gallah, Philip, deeply affectionate (and jealous!) had learned the names of all our dogs and was such a good mimic of our voices that he could easily and effectively call the dogs to attention.
Imagine the picture: a bird less than a foot tall, standing on the floor and calling four massive Rhodesian ridgebacks to attention. Then, when he got them all in line in front of him, he walked away, swaying his head and even making little chuckling sounds.
The degree to which emotions and complex feelings for others were developed may well depend on social organisation. It may be that birds with long-term social bonds show more complex behaviour and brains than those whose associations are only fleeting.
What they get out of it is perhaps not debatable — more joy, more grief, but also a greater degree of safety and usually a longer life. There are clear benefits of sticking together in a difficult and fickle continent.
Gisela Kaplan, Professor of Animal Behaviour, University of New England This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
#animalBehaviour #AnimalBiodiversityNews #animalExtinction #animals #Bird #birdOfPrey #birds #Birdsong #BlueBirdOfParadiseParadisornisRudolphi #BlueEyedCockatooCacatuaOphthalmica #BorneanPeacockPheasantPolyplectronSchleiermacheri #Boycott4wildlife #BoycottPalmOil #cockatoo #cognition #GoldieSBirdOfParadiseParadisaeaDecora #intelligence #Parrot #songbird #songbirds #SumatranLeafbirdChloropsisMedia #vegan
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Laughs, Cries and Deception: The Complex Lives of Birds
#Birds can certainly get very angry – and the owner of a galah or corella would be well advised not to get near this bird when the head feathers are raised — but birds can be joyful and playful, can get depressed and, as studies have shown, a neglectful or bare environment can even make them pessimistic.
Birds may feel for others (have empathy) and even console them, may have a sense of justice, may show deep affection for their partner and grieve for their loss. I witnessed the mate of a fatally injured tawny frogmouth not moving from the spot next to their dead partner for three days, and then dying on the fourth. 🌴🩸🧐 Be #vegan for them! ❌ #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife
#Parrot #cockatoo lovers will tell you, #birds 🦤🦃🦜🪿🦆🕊️ get angry, feel empathy, have a deep sense of justice and affection for their partners #Bird #intelligence 🌴🩸🧐 Be #vegan for them! ❌#Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/10/20/laughs-cries-and-deception-birds-emotional-lives-are-just-as-complicated-as-ours/
Share to BlueSky Share to TwitterJuly on the Northern Tableland, near Armidale in New South Wales, is usually the beginning of the breeding season and field observations start early.
I sat and watched in freezing temperatures. The sun was just rising above the horizon of this 1000m-high plateau when through binoculars I saw a young lone magpie, walking gingerly, literally tip-toeing, occasionally interrupted by little bouts of running and, unusually, heading straight for its territorial boundary.
In the last stretch to the border, the bird edged along a row of pine trees, staying low, and kept looking over its shoulder, especially when crossing the neighbour’s border. Shortly afterwards, a female was seen in his company.
Later, the male backtracked and, when far enough into his own territory, started foraging rather aimlessly as if nothing had happened.
What had I witnessed? Did this young male magpie understand that he was breaking several important magpie social rules and could face punishment for this transgression if caught? Did he have a sense of morality?
Science has traditionally shunned the idea of emotions in animals, not just for fear of anthropomorphism or over-interpretation, but also because there is a very long cultural history that played out a divide between mind and body and reason and emotions.
Reason, thinking and making judgements were stubbornly thought to be outside the capacity of animals. For a long time it was not believed that animals were even capable of feeling pain, let alone complex emotions. We now know that is far from the truth.
Birds with feelings
Pet owners have always known that their pets can be affectionate, sulky, jealous, sad, excited and deliberately naughty, as well as doing extraordinary things for their owners. The animals we know best in this regard are obviously dogs and cats.
Charles Darwin was the first to discuss emotions in animals in the mid-19th century. A century later, Niko Tinbergen addressed the vexing question of emotions.
Following on from Darwin, he identified “four Fs” as part of survival: fight, flee, fornicate and feed. These translate into basic feelings of fear, hunger and sexual drive – now called motivational states.
Tawny frogmouths are monogamous. cskk/Flickr, CC BY-NC-NDBut there is a lot more to bird emotions. Dangerous and horrible experiences are usually remembered. Memory helps survival. Modern urban birds have been shown to remember faces of people considered dangerous and threatening.
We now know that the bird brain is lateralised (each side of the brain controls a different set of functions) as in humans and other vertebrates. The right hemisphere expresses intense emotions (such as fear and attack). The left hemisphere has routine, considered responses and may inhibit some of the strong responses of the right hemisphere.
So birds are more similar to humans than had ever been thought, but with an important difference: birds are generally not aggressive without cause. Technically, aggression is an emotion that is dysfunctional, has no purpose and often even harms the individual displaying it.
Timneh Parrot Psittacus timnehBirds can certainly get very angry – and the owner of a galah or corella would be well advised not to get near this bird when the head feathers are raised — but birds can be joyful and playful, can get depressed and, as studies have shown, a neglectful or bare environment can even make them pessimistic.
Birds may feel for others (have empathy) and even console them, may have a sense of justice, may show deep affection for their partner and grieve for their loss. I witnessed the mate of a fatally injured tawny frogmouth not moving from the spot next to its dead partner for three days, and then dying on the fourth.
Social smarts
Australian native birds have an unusually high percentage of pair-bonding (over 90% of species) and the highest concentrations of cooperative species (relatives or siblings helping at the nest) anywhere in the world. Cockatoos bonding for life often have intense close partnerships, which are nurtured by constant grooming and attention to each other’s needs.
Such intense cohabitation of individuals, often for many years (how about 60 years of “marriage” in sulphur-crested cockatoos?), may also create frictions and dissatisfactions that require solutions to keep the pair or group together.
For instance, the lazy helper at the nest who only pretends to help in feeding, as happens among white-winged choughs, may get scolded by an adult. A group of apostlebirds building a mud nest together, transporting mud to the nest in relays, may spot an individual that is not pulling its weight.
Apostlebirds breed in families, and all are expected to pull their weight. Gisela Kaplan, Author providedI have witnessed on several occasions near Copeton Dam (in Inverell, NSW) apostlebirds become so outraged that they approach the individual with heightened calling and may even peck it until the intimidated individual falls back into line and does its share.
Empathy, altruism and consoling the injured or vanquished have all been observed in birds, thought to be the ultimate in consideration for another individual’s state of mind.
For instance, there are observations of dusky wood-swallows (belonging to the same family of birds as butcherbirds and magpies) in Western Australia’s Wheatbelt hassling a restless flycatcher with a larva in his beak, perched on a branch. One wood-swallow flew above the flycatcher, while the other simultaneously flew directly at it, snatched the larva from its beak while it was distracted by the other bird hovering overhead, and took it away. So who got the prize?
If all behaviour in animals is selfish, then the one who caught it should have gulped it down, but it did not. It gave it to the bird that had distracted the flycatcher. Perhaps the two birds reversed roles in the next, similar, situation. But it still meant overcoming the temptation to eat.
The noisy miner who defended a puppy. Gisela Kaplan, Author providedA noisy miner, one of the cooperative honeyeaters, I had hand-raised grew up over several weeks in the company of very young ridgeback pups near the edge of a nature reserve in a NSW coastal area.
One pup was sleeping on the porch in the sun and I was some distance away. I was alerted by the alarm calls of the noisy miner and turned around to see it swooping right down to a lace monitor’s head – doing so over and over again. I ran as quickly as I could, by now also shouting once the risk to the pup was more than apparent.
When the monitor spotted me, it turned and fled. The noisy minor had risked its life to save the pup. At no other occasion did the bird attempt to swoop a lace monitor. Its response was very specific to this situation.
And, as I have been asked often, could birds have a sense of humour? Perhaps.
Our gallah, Philip, deeply affectionate (and jealous!) had learned the names of all our dogs and was such a good mimic of our voices that he could easily and effectively call the dogs to attention.
Imagine the picture: a bird less than a foot tall, standing on the floor and calling four massive Rhodesian ridgebacks to attention. Then, when he got them all in line in front of him, he walked away, swaying his head and even making little chuckling sounds.
The degree to which emotions and complex feelings for others were developed may well depend on social organisation. It may be that birds with long-term social bonds show more complex behaviour and brains than those whose associations are only fleeting.
What they get out of it is perhaps not debatable — more joy, more grief, but also a greater degree of safety and usually a longer life. There are clear benefits of sticking together in a difficult and fickle continent.
Gisela Kaplan, Professor of Animal Behaviour, University of New England This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
#animalBehaviour #AnimalBiodiversityNews #animalExtinction #animals #Bird #birdOfPrey #birds #Birdsong #BlueBirdOfParadiseParadisornisRudolphi #BlueEyedCockatooCacatuaOphthalmica #BorneanPeacockPheasantPolyplectronSchleiermacheri #Boycott4wildlife #BoycottPalmOil #cockatoo #cognition #GoldieSBirdOfParadiseParadisaeaDecora #intelligence #Parrot #songbird #songbirds #SumatranLeafbirdChloropsisMedia #vegan
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Laughs, Cries and Deception: The Complex Lives of Birds
#Birds can certainly get very angry – and the owner of a galah or corella would be well advised not to get near this bird when the head feathers are raised — but birds can be joyful and playful, can get depressed and, as studies have shown, a neglectful or bare environment can even make them pessimistic.
Birds may feel for others (have empathy) and even console them, may have a sense of justice, may show deep affection for their partner and grieve for their loss. I witnessed the mate of a fatally injured tawny frogmouth not moving from the spot next to their dead partner for three days, and then dying on the fourth. 🌴🩸🧐 Be #vegan for them! ❌ #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife
#Parrot #cockatoo lovers will tell you, #birds 🦤🦃🦜🪿🦆🕊️ get angry, feel empathy, have a deep sense of justice and affection for their partners #Bird #intelligence 🌴🩸🧐 Be #vegan for them! ❌#Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/10/20/laughs-cries-and-deception-birds-emotional-lives-are-just-as-complicated-as-ours/
Share to BlueSky Share to TwitterJuly on the Northern Tableland, near Armidale in New South Wales, is usually the beginning of the breeding season and field observations start early.
I sat and watched in freezing temperatures. The sun was just rising above the horizon of this 1000m-high plateau when through binoculars I saw a young lone magpie, walking gingerly, literally tip-toeing, occasionally interrupted by little bouts of running and, unusually, heading straight for its territorial boundary.
In the last stretch to the border, the bird edged along a row of pine trees, staying low, and kept looking over its shoulder, especially when crossing the neighbour’s border. Shortly afterwards, a female was seen in his company.
Later, the male backtracked and, when far enough into his own territory, started foraging rather aimlessly as if nothing had happened.
What had I witnessed? Did this young male magpie understand that he was breaking several important magpie social rules and could face punishment for this transgression if caught? Did he have a sense of morality?
Science has traditionally shunned the idea of emotions in animals, not just for fear of anthropomorphism or over-interpretation, but also because there is a very long cultural history that played out a divide between mind and body and reason and emotions.
Reason, thinking and making judgements were stubbornly thought to be outside the capacity of animals. For a long time it was not believed that animals were even capable of feeling pain, let alone complex emotions. We now know that is far from the truth.
Birds with feelings
Pet owners have always known that their pets can be affectionate, sulky, jealous, sad, excited and deliberately naughty, as well as doing extraordinary things for their owners. The animals we know best in this regard are obviously dogs and cats.
Charles Darwin was the first to discuss emotions in animals in the mid-19th century. A century later, Niko Tinbergen addressed the vexing question of emotions.
Following on from Darwin, he identified “four Fs” as part of survival: fight, flee, fornicate and feed. These translate into basic feelings of fear, hunger and sexual drive – now called motivational states.
Tawny frogmouths are monogamous. cskk/Flickr, CC BY-NC-NDBut there is a lot more to bird emotions. Dangerous and horrible experiences are usually remembered. Memory helps survival. Modern urban birds have been shown to remember faces of people considered dangerous and threatening.
We now know that the bird brain is lateralised (each side of the brain controls a different set of functions) as in humans and other vertebrates. The right hemisphere expresses intense emotions (such as fear and attack). The left hemisphere has routine, considered responses and may inhibit some of the strong responses of the right hemisphere.
So birds are more similar to humans than had ever been thought, but with an important difference: birds are generally not aggressive without cause. Technically, aggression is an emotion that is dysfunctional, has no purpose and often even harms the individual displaying it.
Timneh Parrot Psittacus timnehBirds can certainly get very angry – and the owner of a galah or corella would be well advised not to get near this bird when the head feathers are raised — but birds can be joyful and playful, can get depressed and, as studies have shown, a neglectful or bare environment can even make them pessimistic.
Birds may feel for others (have empathy) and even console them, may have a sense of justice, may show deep affection for their partner and grieve for their loss. I witnessed the mate of a fatally injured tawny frogmouth not moving from the spot next to its dead partner for three days, and then dying on the fourth.
Social smarts
Australian native birds have an unusually high percentage of pair-bonding (over 90% of species) and the highest concentrations of cooperative species (relatives or siblings helping at the nest) anywhere in the world. Cockatoos bonding for life often have intense close partnerships, which are nurtured by constant grooming and attention to each other’s needs.
Such intense cohabitation of individuals, often for many years (how about 60 years of “marriage” in sulphur-crested cockatoos?), may also create frictions and dissatisfactions that require solutions to keep the pair or group together.
For instance, the lazy helper at the nest who only pretends to help in feeding, as happens among white-winged choughs, may get scolded by an adult. A group of apostlebirds building a mud nest together, transporting mud to the nest in relays, may spot an individual that is not pulling its weight.
Apostlebirds breed in families, and all are expected to pull their weight. Gisela Kaplan, Author providedI have witnessed on several occasions near Copeton Dam (in Inverell, NSW) apostlebirds become so outraged that they approach the individual with heightened calling and may even peck it until the intimidated individual falls back into line and does its share.
Empathy, altruism and consoling the injured or vanquished have all been observed in birds, thought to be the ultimate in consideration for another individual’s state of mind.
For instance, there are observations of dusky wood-swallows (belonging to the same family of birds as butcherbirds and magpies) in Western Australia’s Wheatbelt hassling a restless flycatcher with a larva in his beak, perched on a branch. One wood-swallow flew above the flycatcher, while the other simultaneously flew directly at it, snatched the larva from its beak while it was distracted by the other bird hovering overhead, and took it away. So who got the prize?
If all behaviour in animals is selfish, then the one who caught it should have gulped it down, but it did not. It gave it to the bird that had distracted the flycatcher. Perhaps the two birds reversed roles in the next, similar, situation. But it still meant overcoming the temptation to eat.
The noisy miner who defended a puppy. Gisela Kaplan, Author providedA noisy miner, one of the cooperative honeyeaters, I had hand-raised grew up over several weeks in the company of very young ridgeback pups near the edge of a nature reserve in a NSW coastal area.
One pup was sleeping on the porch in the sun and I was some distance away. I was alerted by the alarm calls of the noisy miner and turned around to see it swooping right down to a lace monitor’s head – doing so over and over again. I ran as quickly as I could, by now also shouting once the risk to the pup was more than apparent.
When the monitor spotted me, it turned and fled. The noisy minor had risked its life to save the pup. At no other occasion did the bird attempt to swoop a lace monitor. Its response was very specific to this situation.
And, as I have been asked often, could birds have a sense of humour? Perhaps.
Our gallah, Philip, deeply affectionate (and jealous!) had learned the names of all our dogs and was such a good mimic of our voices that he could easily and effectively call the dogs to attention.
Imagine the picture: a bird less than a foot tall, standing on the floor and calling four massive Rhodesian ridgebacks to attention. Then, when he got them all in line in front of him, he walked away, swaying his head and even making little chuckling sounds.
The degree to which emotions and complex feelings for others were developed may well depend on social organisation. It may be that birds with long-term social bonds show more complex behaviour and brains than those whose associations are only fleeting.
What they get out of it is perhaps not debatable — more joy, more grief, but also a greater degree of safety and usually a longer life. There are clear benefits of sticking together in a difficult and fickle continent.
Gisela Kaplan, Professor of Animal Behaviour, University of New England This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
#animalBehaviour #AnimalBiodiversityNews #animalExtinction #animals #Bird #birdOfPrey #birds #Birdsong #BlueBirdOfParadiseParadisornisRudolphi #BlueEyedCockatooCacatuaOphthalmica #BorneanPeacockPheasantPolyplectronSchleiermacheri #Boycott4wildlife #BoycottPalmOil #cockatoo #cognition #GoldieSBirdOfParadiseParadisaeaDecora #intelligence #Parrot #songbird #songbirds #SumatranLeafbirdChloropsisMedia #vegan
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Laughs, Cries and Deception: The Complex Lives of Birds
#Birds can certainly get very angry – and the owner of a galah or corella would be well advised not to get near this bird when the head feathers are raised — but birds can be joyful and playful, can get depressed and, as studies have shown, a neglectful or bare environment can even make them pessimistic.
Birds may feel for others (have empathy) and even console them, may have a sense of justice, may show deep affection for their partner and grieve for their loss. I witnessed the mate of a fatally injured tawny frogmouth not moving from the spot next to their dead partner for three days, and then dying on the fourth. 🌴🩸🧐 Be #vegan for them! ❌ #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife
#Parrot #cockatoo lovers will tell you, #birds 🦤🦃🦜🪿🦆🕊️ get angry, feel empathy, have a deep sense of justice and affection for their partners #Bird #intelligence 🌴🩸🧐 Be #vegan for them! ❌#Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/10/20/laughs-cries-and-deception-birds-emotional-lives-are-just-as-complicated-as-ours/
Share to BlueSky Share to TwitterJuly on the Northern Tableland, near Armidale in New South Wales, is usually the beginning of the breeding season and field observations start early.
I sat and watched in freezing temperatures. The sun was just rising above the horizon of this 1000m-high plateau when through binoculars I saw a young lone magpie, walking gingerly, literally tip-toeing, occasionally interrupted by little bouts of running and, unusually, heading straight for its territorial boundary.
In the last stretch to the border, the bird edged along a row of pine trees, staying low, and kept looking over its shoulder, especially when crossing the neighbour’s border. Shortly afterwards, a female was seen in his company.
Later, the male backtracked and, when far enough into his own territory, started foraging rather aimlessly as if nothing had happened.
What had I witnessed? Did this young male magpie understand that he was breaking several important magpie social rules and could face punishment for this transgression if caught? Did he have a sense of morality?
Science has traditionally shunned the idea of emotions in animals, not just for fear of anthropomorphism or over-interpretation, but also because there is a very long cultural history that played out a divide between mind and body and reason and emotions.
Reason, thinking and making judgements were stubbornly thought to be outside the capacity of animals. For a long time it was not believed that animals were even capable of feeling pain, let alone complex emotions. We now know that is far from the truth.
Birds with feelings
Pet owners have always known that their pets can be affectionate, sulky, jealous, sad, excited and deliberately naughty, as well as doing extraordinary things for their owners. The animals we know best in this regard are obviously dogs and cats.
Charles Darwin was the first to discuss emotions in animals in the mid-19th century. A century later, Niko Tinbergen addressed the vexing question of emotions.
Following on from Darwin, he identified “four Fs” as part of survival: fight, flee, fornicate and feed. These translate into basic feelings of fear, hunger and sexual drive – now called motivational states.
Tawny frogmouths are monogamous. cskk/Flickr, CC BY-NC-NDBut there is a lot more to bird emotions. Dangerous and horrible experiences are usually remembered. Memory helps survival. Modern urban birds have been shown to remember faces of people considered dangerous and threatening.
We now know that the bird brain is lateralised (each side of the brain controls a different set of functions) as in humans and other vertebrates. The right hemisphere expresses intense emotions (such as fear and attack). The left hemisphere has routine, considered responses and may inhibit some of the strong responses of the right hemisphere.
So birds are more similar to humans than had ever been thought, but with an important difference: birds are generally not aggressive without cause. Technically, aggression is an emotion that is dysfunctional, has no purpose and often even harms the individual displaying it.
Timneh Parrot Psittacus timnehBirds can certainly get very angry – and the owner of a galah or corella would be well advised not to get near this bird when the head feathers are raised — but birds can be joyful and playful, can get depressed and, as studies have shown, a neglectful or bare environment can even make them pessimistic.
Birds may feel for others (have empathy) and even console them, may have a sense of justice, may show deep affection for their partner and grieve for their loss. I witnessed the mate of a fatally injured tawny frogmouth not moving from the spot next to its dead partner for three days, and then dying on the fourth.
Social smarts
Australian native birds have an unusually high percentage of pair-bonding (over 90% of species) and the highest concentrations of cooperative species (relatives or siblings helping at the nest) anywhere in the world. Cockatoos bonding for life often have intense close partnerships, which are nurtured by constant grooming and attention to each other’s needs.
Such intense cohabitation of individuals, often for many years (how about 60 years of “marriage” in sulphur-crested cockatoos?), may also create frictions and dissatisfactions that require solutions to keep the pair or group together.
For instance, the lazy helper at the nest who only pretends to help in feeding, as happens among white-winged choughs, may get scolded by an adult. A group of apostlebirds building a mud nest together, transporting mud to the nest in relays, may spot an individual that is not pulling its weight.
Apostlebirds breed in families, and all are expected to pull their weight. Gisela Kaplan, Author providedI have witnessed on several occasions near Copeton Dam (in Inverell, NSW) apostlebirds become so outraged that they approach the individual with heightened calling and may even peck it until the intimidated individual falls back into line and does its share.
Empathy, altruism and consoling the injured or vanquished have all been observed in birds, thought to be the ultimate in consideration for another individual’s state of mind.
For instance, there are observations of dusky wood-swallows (belonging to the same family of birds as butcherbirds and magpies) in Western Australia’s Wheatbelt hassling a restless flycatcher with a larva in his beak, perched on a branch. One wood-swallow flew above the flycatcher, while the other simultaneously flew directly at it, snatched the larva from its beak while it was distracted by the other bird hovering overhead, and took it away. So who got the prize?
If all behaviour in animals is selfish, then the one who caught it should have gulped it down, but it did not. It gave it to the bird that had distracted the flycatcher. Perhaps the two birds reversed roles in the next, similar, situation. But it still meant overcoming the temptation to eat.
The noisy miner who defended a puppy. Gisela Kaplan, Author providedA noisy miner, one of the cooperative honeyeaters, I had hand-raised grew up over several weeks in the company of very young ridgeback pups near the edge of a nature reserve in a NSW coastal area.
One pup was sleeping on the porch in the sun and I was some distance away. I was alerted by the alarm calls of the noisy miner and turned around to see it swooping right down to a lace monitor’s head – doing so over and over again. I ran as quickly as I could, by now also shouting once the risk to the pup was more than apparent.
When the monitor spotted me, it turned and fled. The noisy minor had risked its life to save the pup. At no other occasion did the bird attempt to swoop a lace monitor. Its response was very specific to this situation.
And, as I have been asked often, could birds have a sense of humour? Perhaps.
Our gallah, Philip, deeply affectionate (and jealous!) had learned the names of all our dogs and was such a good mimic of our voices that he could easily and effectively call the dogs to attention.
Imagine the picture: a bird less than a foot tall, standing on the floor and calling four massive Rhodesian ridgebacks to attention. Then, when he got them all in line in front of him, he walked away, swaying his head and even making little chuckling sounds.
The degree to which emotions and complex feelings for others were developed may well depend on social organisation. It may be that birds with long-term social bonds show more complex behaviour and brains than those whose associations are only fleeting.
What they get out of it is perhaps not debatable — more joy, more grief, but also a greater degree of safety and usually a longer life. There are clear benefits of sticking together in a difficult and fickle continent.
Gisela Kaplan, Professor of Animal Behaviour, University of New England This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
#animalBehaviour #AnimalBiodiversityNews #animalExtinction #animals #Bird #birdOfPrey #birds #Birdsong #BlueBirdOfParadiseParadisornisRudolphi #BlueEyedCockatooCacatuaOphthalmica #BorneanPeacockPheasantPolyplectronSchleiermacheri #Boycott4wildlife #BoycottPalmOil #cockatoo #cognition #GoldieSBirdOfParadiseParadisaeaDecora #intelligence #Parrot #songbird #songbirds #SumatranLeafbirdChloropsisMedia #vegan
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Laughs, Cries and Deception: The Complex Lives of Birds
#Birds can certainly get very angry – and the owner of a galah or corella would be well advised not to get near this bird when the head feathers are raised — but birds can be joyful and playful, can get depressed and, as studies have shown, a neglectful or bare environment can even make them pessimistic.
Birds may feel for others (have empathy) and even console them, may have a sense of justice, may show deep affection for their partner and grieve for their loss. I witnessed the mate of a fatally injured tawny frogmouth not moving from the spot next to their dead partner for three days, and then dying on the fourth. 🌴🩸🧐 Be #vegan for them! ❌ #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife
#Parrot #cockatoo lovers will tell you, #birds 🦤🦃🦜🪿🦆🕊️ get angry, feel empathy, have a deep sense of justice and affection for their partners #Bird #intelligence 🌴🩸🧐 Be #vegan for them! ❌#Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/10/20/laughs-cries-and-deception-birds-emotional-lives-are-just-as-complicated-as-ours/
Share to BlueSky Share to TwitterJuly on the Northern Tableland, near Armidale in New South Wales, is usually the beginning of the breeding season and field observations start early.
I sat and watched in freezing temperatures. The sun was just rising above the horizon of this 1000m-high plateau when through binoculars I saw a young lone magpie, walking gingerly, literally tip-toeing, occasionally interrupted by little bouts of running and, unusually, heading straight for its territorial boundary.
In the last stretch to the border, the bird edged along a row of pine trees, staying low, and kept looking over its shoulder, especially when crossing the neighbour’s border. Shortly afterwards, a female was seen in his company.
Later, the male backtracked and, when far enough into his own territory, started foraging rather aimlessly as if nothing had happened.
What had I witnessed? Did this young male magpie understand that he was breaking several important magpie social rules and could face punishment for this transgression if caught? Did he have a sense of morality?
Science has traditionally shunned the idea of emotions in animals, not just for fear of anthropomorphism or over-interpretation, but also because there is a very long cultural history that played out a divide between mind and body and reason and emotions.
Reason, thinking and making judgements were stubbornly thought to be outside the capacity of animals. For a long time it was not believed that animals were even capable of feeling pain, let alone complex emotions. We now know that is far from the truth.
Birds with feelings
Pet owners have always known that their pets can be affectionate, sulky, jealous, sad, excited and deliberately naughty, as well as doing extraordinary things for their owners. The animals we know best in this regard are obviously dogs and cats.
Charles Darwin was the first to discuss emotions in animals in the mid-19th century. A century later, Niko Tinbergen addressed the vexing question of emotions.
Following on from Darwin, he identified “four Fs” as part of survival: fight, flee, fornicate and feed. These translate into basic feelings of fear, hunger and sexual drive – now called motivational states.
Tawny frogmouths are monogamous. cskk/Flickr, CC BY-NC-NDBut there is a lot more to bird emotions. Dangerous and horrible experiences are usually remembered. Memory helps survival. Modern urban birds have been shown to remember faces of people considered dangerous and threatening.
We now know that the bird brain is lateralised (each side of the brain controls a different set of functions) as in humans and other vertebrates. The right hemisphere expresses intense emotions (such as fear and attack). The left hemisphere has routine, considered responses and may inhibit some of the strong responses of the right hemisphere.
So birds are more similar to humans than had ever been thought, but with an important difference: birds are generally not aggressive without cause. Technically, aggression is an emotion that is dysfunctional, has no purpose and often even harms the individual displaying it.
Timneh Parrot Psittacus timnehBirds can certainly get very angry – and the owner of a galah or corella would be well advised not to get near this bird when the head feathers are raised — but birds can be joyful and playful, can get depressed and, as studies have shown, a neglectful or bare environment can even make them pessimistic.
Birds may feel for others (have empathy) and even console them, may have a sense of justice, may show deep affection for their partner and grieve for their loss. I witnessed the mate of a fatally injured tawny frogmouth not moving from the spot next to its dead partner for three days, and then dying on the fourth.
Social smarts
Australian native birds have an unusually high percentage of pair-bonding (over 90% of species) and the highest concentrations of cooperative species (relatives or siblings helping at the nest) anywhere in the world. Cockatoos bonding for life often have intense close partnerships, which are nurtured by constant grooming and attention to each other’s needs.
Such intense cohabitation of individuals, often for many years (how about 60 years of “marriage” in sulphur-crested cockatoos?), may also create frictions and dissatisfactions that require solutions to keep the pair or group together.
For instance, the lazy helper at the nest who only pretends to help in feeding, as happens among white-winged choughs, may get scolded by an adult. A group of apostlebirds building a mud nest together, transporting mud to the nest in relays, may spot an individual that is not pulling its weight.
Apostlebirds breed in families, and all are expected to pull their weight. Gisela Kaplan, Author providedI have witnessed on several occasions near Copeton Dam (in Inverell, NSW) apostlebirds become so outraged that they approach the individual with heightened calling and may even peck it until the intimidated individual falls back into line and does its share.
Empathy, altruism and consoling the injured or vanquished have all been observed in birds, thought to be the ultimate in consideration for another individual’s state of mind.
For instance, there are observations of dusky wood-swallows (belonging to the same family of birds as butcherbirds and magpies) in Western Australia’s Wheatbelt hassling a restless flycatcher with a larva in his beak, perched on a branch. One wood-swallow flew above the flycatcher, while the other simultaneously flew directly at it, snatched the larva from its beak while it was distracted by the other bird hovering overhead, and took it away. So who got the prize?
If all behaviour in animals is selfish, then the one who caught it should have gulped it down, but it did not. It gave it to the bird that had distracted the flycatcher. Perhaps the two birds reversed roles in the next, similar, situation. But it still meant overcoming the temptation to eat.
The noisy miner who defended a puppy. Gisela Kaplan, Author providedA noisy miner, one of the cooperative honeyeaters, I had hand-raised grew up over several weeks in the company of very young ridgeback pups near the edge of a nature reserve in a NSW coastal area.
One pup was sleeping on the porch in the sun and I was some distance away. I was alerted by the alarm calls of the noisy miner and turned around to see it swooping right down to a lace monitor’s head – doing so over and over again. I ran as quickly as I could, by now also shouting once the risk to the pup was more than apparent.
When the monitor spotted me, it turned and fled. The noisy minor had risked its life to save the pup. At no other occasion did the bird attempt to swoop a lace monitor. Its response was very specific to this situation.
And, as I have been asked often, could birds have a sense of humour? Perhaps.
Our gallah, Philip, deeply affectionate (and jealous!) had learned the names of all our dogs and was such a good mimic of our voices that he could easily and effectively call the dogs to attention.
Imagine the picture: a bird less than a foot tall, standing on the floor and calling four massive Rhodesian ridgebacks to attention. Then, when he got them all in line in front of him, he walked away, swaying his head and even making little chuckling sounds.
The degree to which emotions and complex feelings for others were developed may well depend on social organisation. It may be that birds with long-term social bonds show more complex behaviour and brains than those whose associations are only fleeting.
What they get out of it is perhaps not debatable — more joy, more grief, but also a greater degree of safety and usually a longer life. There are clear benefits of sticking together in a difficult and fickle continent.
Gisela Kaplan, Professor of Animal Behaviour, University of New England This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
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It is dawning on me that not every country knows the joy that is the (Christmas) Tractor Lights Parade. There is an endless stream of farmers dressing up their nicest tractor for an evening ride.
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It is dawning on me that not every country knows the joy that is the (Christmas) Tractor Lights Parade. There is an endless stream of farmers dressing up their nicest tractor for an evening ride.
#farmers #tractor #countryside #TractorParade -
It is dawning on me that not every country knows the joy that is the (Christmas) Tractor Lights Parade. There is an endless stream of farmers dressing up their nicest tractor for an evening ride.
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It is dawning on me that not every country knows the joy that is the (Christmas) Tractor Lights Parade. There is an endless stream of farmers dressing up their nicest tractor for an evening ride.
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Pretty happy with how this came out. Might specialize in reinforced concrete ruins just for funsies…
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Hollyhocks reign supreme these days! We don’t have as many as we used to, but they’re still pretty
https://www.flickr.com/gp/27946937@N06/129K4B2Gh9
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TFW you’re browsing next season’s concert brochure and you sense impending bankruptcy as you say at least twice on every page “Oh!” 🫣🎶🎵🎼🎻🎺🎷🪈
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Stop de prijsverhoging: behoud betaalbaar volwassenenonderwijs voor iedereen in Vlaanderen!
Levenslang leren is een recht voor iedereen en we willen en kenniseconomie, maar hoe rijm je dat met opleidingen die onbetaalbaar worden?
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Working for #KhanAcademy as a non-mathematician, I endorse this kind of visualisation to help us understand the beauty of maths 🧮 https://vis.social/@infobeautiful/114671440201693335
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“I am just scribbling to keep from biting the radiator”
— Joe Stilwell (before WWII (and on mission somewhere in China IIRC)
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And so we see how history is forgotten... 36 years since the events known in the West as "Tian'anmen" took place. A little over one generation, and there is barely any mention of it.
Listen to this podcast from last year (I think this year's edition may be coming yet, Chris is in a later timezone) to rembember: https://thehistoryofchina.wordpress.com/2024/06/18/special-tiananmen-square-the-declassified-history-06-01-1999-w-postscript-2024/
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I love my little desk setup at home: space for my cute pen case, Hobonichi journal, fake grass pen stand, a cup of tea (with our Libraries Without Borders logo), Herbin ink and pencil sharpener 😻
Ray of sunshine optional 🌞
Makes you want to work, doesn’t it?
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