Tony Vladusich on Nostr: nprofile1q…ufa4k The video shows that these birds are being trained with a food ...
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The video shows that these birds are being trained with a food reward. This is, of course, standard in animal studies. So I'm not surprised that animals would be competing to access the apparatus. I would be surprised if the animals accessed the apparatus for entertainment value alone!
For my PhD I trained honeybees to access a tunnel for a sugar water reward. Bees can communicate to hive mates the approximate location of local food rewards via their "round dance". I soon found my tunnel entrance being inundated with bees from the same hive. If traces of sugar water were somehow left in the tunnel overnight, then I would return in the morning too find various species of ants swarming over my experimental apparatus!
It's quite remarkable how even animals with brains smaller than a sesame seed can learn to access a food rich area (as we've probably all experienced in our own homes at some point).
The video shows that these birds are being trained with a food reward. This is, of course, standard in animal studies. So I'm not surprised that animals would be competing to access the apparatus. I would be surprised if the animals accessed the apparatus for entertainment value alone!
For my PhD I trained honeybees to access a tunnel for a sugar water reward. Bees can communicate to hive mates the approximate location of local food rewards via their "round dance". I soon found my tunnel entrance being inundated with bees from the same hive. If traces of sugar water were somehow left in the tunnel overnight, then I would return in the morning too find various species of ants swarming over my experimental apparatus!
It's quite remarkable how even animals with brains smaller than a sesame seed can learn to access a food rich area (as we've probably all experienced in our own homes at some point).