Are you being watched?

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Title
Are you being watched?
Source
ZOOL 567, Fall 2021
Rights
Contributor
OpenClipart-Vectors from pixabay
Clker-Free-Vector-Images from pixabay
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Twemoji
StarGlade from pixabay
GDJ from pixabay
Creator
Li, Senkay
Description
A glimpse into the world of the crow family (corvids) and their amazing ability to recognize human faces. Are crows and ravens actually able to recognize human faces? If so, how do they do it and why do they?
References
1. Blum, C. R., Fitch, W. T., & Bugnyar, T. (2020). Rapid learning and long-term memory for dangerous humans in ravens (Corvus corax). Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 581794. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.581794

2. Boucherie, P. H., Loretto, M.-C., Massen, J. J. M., & Bugnyar, T. (2019). What constitutes “social complexity” and “social intelligence” in birds? Lessons from ravens. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 73(1), 12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-018-2607-2

3. Cornell, H. N., Marzluff, J. M., & Pecoraro, S. (2012). Social learning spreads knowledge about dangerous humans among American crows. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 279(1728), 499–508. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2011.0957

4. Marzluff, J. M., Walls, J., Cornell, H. N., Withey, J. C., & Craig, D. P. (2010). Lasting recognition of threatening people by wild American crows. Animal Behaviour, 79(3), 699–707. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.12.022

5. Swift, K. N., & Marzluff, J. M. (2015). Wild American crows gather around their dead to learn about danger. Animal Behaviour, 109, 187–197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.08.021
Date
12/01/2021
Category
Learning, Memory & Cognition