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Counting Chicks

16 Thursday Apr 2015

Posted by sedeer in Birds, Evolution, Mind

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animals, Behavior, biology, birds, brain, chickens, Cognition, counting, evolution, numbers, Popular science, science

Chick and Tilda, its mother (photo © and courtesy of Hannele Luhtasela-El Showk)It’s probably not a surprise that humans aren’t the only animals with a sense of numbers. While they’re probably not actually counting, a variety of species seem to be able to tell the number of objects in a group; they can distinguish between groups with greater or fewer objects and react with surprise when the number changes unexpectedly. However, a recent study suggests that this numerical understanding may go deeper than we’ve previously thought. Continue reading →

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