Mountain Chickadee at Feeding Array (VIDEO)

Cornell University

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To test spatial memory, Mountain Chickadees had to find the one feeder out of an array of eight that would give them a seed. Birds who did better at the task showed differences in their genomes when compared to birds who did less well.

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Vladimir Pravosudov, University of Nevada, Reno.

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