Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Drongo birds use false alarm calls to trick meerkats into dropping food so they can steal it. Meerkats rely on drongo warning ...

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A small experiment using sleights of hand and illusions offers insights into how birds and people perceive the world. By Veronique Greenwood The coin is in the illusionist’s left hand, now it’s in the ...

The dark speckled egg of the cowbird is distinctive from the eggs belonging to the bird species that built the nest. Credit: Courtesy of Doug Hitchcox This story was originally published in June 2023.

Most magic tricks require a fairly sophisticated understanding of how humans perceive the world. To fall for a trick, people have to see things they perceive as important and ignore things that are ...

You might not be able to teach an old dog new tricks, but apparently Australia's sulphur-crested cockatoos are never too old to teach themselves. New research showcases that the Australian-based birds ...

Meerkats have come to rely on the call of the drongo bird to alert them when danger is nearby. In return, the bird gets to snatch up the food left behind by the meerkats in their haste to escape. It’s ...