Azure-winged magpies show human-like generosity
Thursday, October 20, 2016 - 09:41
in Biology & Nature
Azure-winged magpies, an Asian bird species, take any opportunity to provide food to their group members, even without receiving any reward themselves. A team of cognitive biologists showed this type of prosocial behavior experimentally in a bird species for the first time. There are very few other animals that show such human-like generosity.