Urban vs. Rural Birds
When the world admired the boldness and tenacity of Pizza Rat, a rat that went viral after it was filmed dragging a giant slice of pizza down the stairs of a New York City subway station, we implicitly acknowledged that there’s something special about the animals that share our cities.
Scientists had guesses about what that something was—perhaps it had to do with their problem-solving abilities or their fearlessness of people—but they wanted to put it to the test.
A team captured fifty-three Barbados bullfinches from urban and rural sites throughout the island of Barbados. Then, they put the…
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