Great tits change their traditions for the better(phys.org)
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Great tits change their traditions for the better
https://phys.org/news/2021-04-great-tits-traditions.html
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Americans insist on calling these things chickadees. This is usually interpreted by Brits as prudishness.
We have a similar bird in America called a chickadee in the same family, but we also have another bird in the same family called “titmouse” so I really doubt it was due to prudishness.
I bow to superior knowledge.
I clicked on this for all the wrong reasons.
Came here for the wrong reason. Oh well! I Learned something new.
This is a great replacement for the apocryphal tale about collectively-punishing monkeys when one tries to eat a banana, so that monkeys develop a mukti-generational culture of forceful preventing each other from eating banana.
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Birds are smart.
Excerpts like "Great tits seem to do well in and among human-made habitats" are close enough to some sort of Monty Python-esque line that it gets me every time. I wonder if people do it intentionally, like how the downtrodden journalism majors that get stuck sexying up headlines can't resist horrible puns.