macaws mimic intransitive actions

This is a Tenerife news story, published by Ars Technica, that relates primarily to Zoologist Esha Haldar news.

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Parrots struggle when told to do something other than mimic their peers

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Zoologist Esha Haldar and colleagues from the Comparative Cognition Research group worked with blue-throated macaws, which are critically endangered, at the Loro Parque Fundación in Tenerife .

They found that individual birds were more likely to perform the same intransitive action as a bird next to them, no matter what they’d been asked to do.

This could mean that macaws possess mirror neurons, the same neurons that, in humans, fire when we are watching intransitives movements.

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