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New Day Cafe: How to Trick a Bird [1]

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Date: 2024-06-12  

The magazine Knowable has a piece on scientific research on the impacts of magic tricks on birds: knowablemagazine.org/…

“In just the last few years, researchers have become interested in what they can learn about animal minds by studying what does and doesn’t fool them. “Magic effects can reveal blind spots in seeing and roadblocks in thinking,” says Nicky Clayton, who heads the Cambridge lab and, with Garcia-Pelegrin and others, cowrote an overview of the science of magic in the Annual Review of Psychology…

‘A lot of the deceptive techniques that the jays use to protect their caches are things that magicians do in their performances,’ Clayton says. Jays try to obscure their actions as they hide food by choosing dark places, burying it in quiet material like sand rather than gravel, or using their bodies to block another bird’s view. Clayton has observed that if jays can’t obscure what they’re doing, they will try to confuse onlookers by moving their food a half-dozen times, sometimes feigning a cache while concealing the food in a throat pouch.”

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