Lucy Aplin
@lucymaplin.bsky.social
Certified bird brain, researching cognitive and social ecology of parrots and parids. Currently holding down a dual position at the Australian National University and the University of Zurich
Nice view, but now you’ll have to start working on rooks!
November 5, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Nice view, but now you’ll have to start working on rooks!
enjoying a soak...
November 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
enjoying a soak...
Reposted by Lucy Aplin
Our study demonstrates alternative pathways to direct cultural inheritance from parents in species with multiple offspring and limited periods of parental care that can lead behavioral similarities within family units. (4/5)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4u1...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4u1...
Juvenile great tits learn to solve foraging puzzles
YouTube video by Sonja Wild
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October 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Our study demonstrates alternative pathways to direct cultural inheritance from parents in species with multiple offspring and limited periods of parental care that can lead behavioral similarities within family units. (4/5)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4u1...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4u1...
Reposted by Lucy Aplin
Presenting juvenile songbirds with sliding door foraging puzzles, we found that while the first learners of a sibling cohort did so from non-parental adults and partially from parents, subsequent siblings almost exclusively learned from their already knowledgeable sibling. (3/5)
October 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Presenting juvenile songbirds with sliding door foraging puzzles, we found that while the first learners of a sibling cohort did so from non-parental adults and partially from parents, subsequent siblings almost exclusively learned from their already knowledgeable sibling. (3/5)