What surprises scientists? Ornithologists from the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia reported a recorded case of “potential altruism” among magpies. This behavior was discovered when 5 individuals were wearing special tracking trackers made in the form of harnesses. Discuss alt=”Australian magpies learned to remove tracking devices from each other” Australian magpies learned to remove tracking devices from each other />
Scientists studied movement and social dynamic forty, and five were wearing trackers. As soon as this happened, the adult female began to remove the tracker from the young bird and eventually freed it from the device. Three days later, all 5 magpies were without harnesses.
According to scientists, this is the first such case recorded in the behavior of magpies.
Source: Knife