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🗓️ 29 March 2016
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0:00.0 | Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in. |
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0:33.6 | This is Scientific American's 60-second science. I'm Christopher Entaliata. Got a minute? |
0:39.6 | City dwellers can attest that the animals they share the city with, |
0:43.2 | the pigeons, rats, roaches, can all be pretty brazen when they're prowling for a bite. |
0:49.0 | While visiting Barbados, McGill University neurobiologist John Nicola O'Day, |
0:53.7 | noticed that local bullfinches were accomplished thieves as well. |
0:57.0 | They were always trying to steal our food, and we can see those birds also entering in supermarkets, trying to steal food there. |
1:08.0 | And that gave him an idea. |
1:09.0 | Since this bird species are able to solve amazing problems in cities, and they are also |
1:17.6 | present in rural areas, we were wondering... |
1:20.3 | Are the rural birds also good problem solvers, and they just don't take advantage of their |
1:24.9 | abilities? |
1:25.9 | Or are they fundamentally different? |
1:29.1 | So, Adé and his McGill colleagues |
1:30.5 | captured Barbados bullfinches, both in the island's towns |
1:33.6 | and out in the countryside, |
1:35.3 | and they then administered the bird equivalent |
1:37.3 | of personality and IQ tests, |
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