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City birds smarter than their rural counterparts!
Life in the city changes cognition, behaviour and physiology of birds to their advantage, making those living in urban environments far more superior than the ones from rural environments. City birds have adapted to their urban environments enabling them to exploit new resources more favourably then their rural counterparts, the researchers said.Â
Toronto: Life in the city changes cognition, behaviour and physiology of birds to their advantage, making those living in urban environments far more superior than the ones from rural environments. City birds have adapted to their urban environments enabling them to exploit new resources more favourably then their rural counterparts, the researchers said.
The team tested the two groups of birds using not only associative learning tasks, but innovative problem solving tasks. Innovativeness is considered to be useful in the "real life" of animals in the wild, more so than associative learning.
"We found that not only were birds from urbanised areas better at innovative problem-solving tasks than bullfinches from rural environments, but that surprisingly urban birds also had a better immunity than rural birds," said first author of the study Jean-Nicolas Audet from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
