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POPSBuild another airport says Boris Boris should just shut up, this proposed airport would certainly affect my area, no we don't want it, someone gag him and yes lets lose our connections to the world.
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POPSCrows smarter than Chimpanzees Not-so great apes To investigate further, the team presented the crows with a wooden table, divided into two compartments. A treat was at the end of each compartment, but in one, it was positioned behind a rectangular trap hole. To get the snack, the crow had to consistently choose to retrieve food from the compartment without the hole. A recent study of great apes found they could not transfer success at the trap-tube to success at the trap-table. The three crows could, however. "They seem to have some kind of concept of a hole that isn't tied to purely visual features, and they can use this concept to figure out the novel problem," Taylor says. "This is the most conclusive evidence to date for causal reasoning in an animal." Three of the crows did fail at both tasks, however. The team plans further work to investigate why. Journal reference: Proceedings of the Royal Society B (DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1107)
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POPSgiant mouse scientists in Urugay have discovered the fossilised remnants of a skull believed to have belonged to a giant rodent that inhabited what is today South America a good two million years ago. Specs: estimated weight = around 1000 kg; skull length: 53 cm. don't supposed they'd be lured by a chunk of cheese cunningly hidden in a trap, would they?
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POPSCranes found breeding after 400 yr absence Cranes have been found breeding in the fens of East Anglia after 400 years. The Suffolk wetland which the birds are nesting in was a carrot field until the RSPB turned it into Lakenheath Fen Nature Reserve 11 years ago. Large-scale drainage of fens for agriculture had led to the birds' disappearance in the 1600s
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