Image by Jeanne Church, picturewalks.org – Blue Jay
Events in September–November 2022
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- No Birdbrains Here: The Latest on Bird Learning, Instinct, and Intelligence
No Birdbrains Here: The Latest on Bird Learning, Instinct, and Intelligence6:30 pm - 7:30 pm1758 10th Street NKalamazoo, MI 49009(269) 375-3262Birds can learn from consequences, as we and many other species can: Baby chicks learn to peck accurately, wild mockingbirds learn to recognize individual people, and pigeons learned to categorize art and music. Even instinctive behaviors like imprinting can be more flexible than scientists used to think, and songbird song appears particularly malleable. This talk…