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Kea Parrots Treat Physical and Virtual Worlds as Continuous and Equivalent, Study Shows

Using touchscreen laptops, a team of researchers from the University of Auckland has tested whether kea (Nestor notabilisa) — a large species of parrot endemic to the Southern Alps of New Zealand — behave as naive realists and so expect physical processes to be continuous between the physical and virtual worlds. Their results appear in the journal Biology Letters.

http://www.sci-news.com/biology/kea-naive-realists-10117.html

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Kea Parrots are Capable of Innovating Self-Care Tooling, New Study Shows

A new study published in the journal Scientific Reports provides empirical evidence for deliberate self-care tooling in a species of bird.

http://www.sci-news.com/biology/kea-parrots-self-care-tooling-10061.html