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Published online 22 November 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news011122-13
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Effects of experience and social context on prospective caching strategies by scrub jays
Criminal behaviour suggests birds' brains are more sophisticated than we thought.
Americanscrub jays with a history of petty theft are more concerned about being victims of crime than are innocent birds, new research shows. This suggests that the animals may use the past to predict the future and might put themselves in another's shoes - two mental feats so far attributed only to humans.
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