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Oct. 25, 2023 A new study provides evidence that pigeons tackle some problems just as artificial intelligence would -- allowing them to solve difficult tasks that would vex ...
Feb. 7, 2023 Can a pigeon match wits with artificial intelligence? Researchers tested pigeons' learning abilities and concluded the birds employ the same basic process, called associative learning, as the ...
July 1, 2022 DNA testing reveals that the wild ancestors of the common domestic and feral pigeons, now extinct in many parts of the world, are still living on islands in Scotland and ...
Sep. 21, 2021 Biologists discovered that a mutation in the ROR2 gene is linked to beak size reduction in numerous breeds of domestic pigeons. Surprisingly, different mutations in ROR2 also underlie a human ...
Feb. 3, 2022 Our mental ability to divide the complex world into categories makes our daily life much easier. But how do we categorize? What kind of stimulus properties do we assess? Researchers have come a step ...
June 6, 2023 Dreams have been considered a hallmark of human sleep for a long time. Latest findings, however, suggest that when pigeons sleep, they might experience visions of flight. Researchers studied brain ...
Sep. 8, 2022 Birds have impressive cognitive abilities and show a high level of intelligence. Compared to mammals of about the same size, the brains of birds also contain many more neurons. Now a new study helps ...
May 12, 2022 The authors of a major study on the once critically endangered pink pigeon say boosting the species' numbers is not enough to save it from extinction in the future. Despite the population ...
Apr. 14, 2023 Scientists have developed a software package to help answer key questions about genetic factors associated with shared characteristics among different ...
Sep. 17, 2021 Researchers use 'domain adversarial' machine learning to remove the differences between animal and human walking trajectory data. This work may help scientists better understand conditions ...