At 08:29 PM 05/20/2009 Alan Gillanders wrote:
While I do not have the time to go chasing the publications,
the claim to "In the first published account of wild animals
recognising individuals of another species," is not right.
there have been publications reporting the behaviour of birds
and mammals which learned to recognise individuals and behaved
differently towards them.
One of Bernd Heinrich's books talks about ravens recognizing him
and about doing experiments to try to determine what they used
to identify him. If I remember correctly, the ravens in question
were captive but not tamed.
On a different note, I had this idea that I was going to
subscribe to this list while preparing for my trip to Australia
then unsubscribe after the trip was over. I've found that it is
far too interesting to unsubscribe from though. :-)
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Katrina Knight
Reading, PA, USA
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