A project in The Netherlands aims to train crows to habitually clean up discarded cigarette butts. The cigarette buts were presumably discarded by humans. The project describes itself this way: Cigarette filters, you find them in the park next to you in the grass, in dirty ditches and under your shoes. What if we could […]
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Chimps Recognize Butts That Are Upside-Down, Too
A new study builds on prize-winning do-chimps-recognize-buttocks research, adding an upside-down appraisal: “Getting to the Bottom of Face Processing. Species-Specific Inversion Effects for Faces and Behinds in Humans and Chimpanzees (Pan Troglodytes),” Mariska E. Kret and Masaki Tomonaga, PLOS ONE, November 30, 2016. The authors, at Leiden University, the Netherlands, and Kyoto University, Japan, build […]