A centre for research on bird intelligence at the University of Cambridge has been saved from closure by a campaign kickstarted by a NewScientist article, which raised £500,000 from public donations in a matter of weeks
. Donations from the public to support the lab also rolled in, totalling £500,000, which will keep the facility running for the next five years.
The facility, founded 22 years ago by Clayton, has been key to understanding the cognition of corvids – members of the crow family. Its research has shown how these birds have abilities once thought to be the domain of only humans and great apes, such as understanding the minds of others andWhat doing magic tricks for birds is revealing about animal minds
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