Magpies outwit scientists by helping each other to remove tracking devices

When we attached tiny, backpack-like tracking devices to five Australian magpies, we didn’t expect to discover an entirely new social behaviour rarely seen in birds, writes Dominique Potvin.


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    Karl Lewis

    Imagine everyone’s surprise when it turns out the crows and magpies have all been studying/monitoring/following humans for *ages*.

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