Make Way for Ducklings; They're Smarter Than You Thought (IMAGE)

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Make Way for Ducklings; They're Smarter Than You Thought

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A duckling trained on a 'different shape' stimulus looks away from the 'same shape' stimulus (two spheres) in the background. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 15 July, issue of <i>Science</i>, published by AAAS. The paper, by A. Martinho III at University of Oxford in Oxford, UK, and colleagues was titled, "Ducklings understand and imprint on the relational concept of 'same or different."

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Antone Martinho

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