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• BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We have generic tests for the intelligence of birds.

  Most famously used on Crows/Parrots, Seagulls are smarter than average and can solve some advanced puzzles, but they’re mostly below Corvids or Parrots. We’ve also tested their memory, they only care about food and can remember places they’ve gotten food and even the faces of people who they’ve got food from year to year, but we don’t think over too much longer periods.

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  • partofthevoice@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    but we don’t think over too much longer

    Are… are you a seagull?

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    • Dr_Vindaloo@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      …they only care about food…

      Apparently I am

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• edgemaster72@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Image

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• TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Dumb? The sea seagulls maybe, but the ones moving inland are definitely not. Here in The Netherlands there’s an evolutionary difference in growth and cognitive behavior noticeable, as the inland seagulls are able to get much more food. The food is also more diverse and contains more fats. Because the food they eat is our trash, they are also exposed to many fungi and bacteria improving their immune system. To be able to get to our trash they need to open containers and reach into difficult places, improving their cognitive skills. There is a big difference noticeable with seagulls who stay at sea, as they rely on just fish which is harder to get as thanks to us the fish population is greatly reduced. Sea seagulls are often under fed and get ill more often and die due to poisoning (like lead from ships which ends up in the fish they eat). They are doing bad these days, which is what forced groups to find food elsewhere, like in the cities.

  And now they are plotting to take control over humans after ages of control by cats. I’ve seen them and my cats hoarding machine guns, grenades and rocket launchers.

  I tried to find the article I read a while ago (was in Dutch) but can’t seem to find it. Here’s a similar article though: phys.org/…/2016-07-biologist-evolutionary-brought…

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  • Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Dutch seagull in action: youtube.com/shorts/yzA7SiYQ_zE

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    • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨25⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Hahaha holy shit

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  • RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The entire population of Greater Haarlem would like a word about this.

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• logicbomb@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  A seagull alone may be dumb and have very little memory of the past, but I am sure that A Flock of Seagulls can remember all the way back to the 1980s.

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• Adderbox76@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If a seagull lives to it’s thirties I imagine it’s flying around with nothing but Smashmouth banging around it’s brain all day.

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  • Hadriscus@jlai.lu ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    or the song lo gabian (the seagull)

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• Grimy@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I barely remember last week.

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  • halvar@lemy.lol ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    maybe you’re a seagull, you should check that with your gp

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• atomicorange@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Crows remember the 90s.

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  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Count them.

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  • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    FIRE IT UP! FIRE IT UP!

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• stray@pawb.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I can’t relate to being disturbed by the idea that other creatures remember their own lives.

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• Kamsaa@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Herring gulls are smart, they know if you are looking at them (and usually avoid stealing your food when you do) ^^ Herring gulls respond to human gaze direction | Biology Letters share.google/Sdg1k9aoyRVzoiiSi

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  • RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And have in fact stolen by broodje haring straight out of my fucking hands as I raised it to my mouth to take the first bite. Fucker hit me from behind and curved in at the last second. Zandvoort Summer 2010. Never forget, never forgive!

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  • LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    De-googled link:

    doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0405

    Which leads to royalsocietypublishing.org

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    • Kamsaa@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Thanks! I should’ve done that directly, apologies.

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• deacon@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I know a lot of dumb people that think they remember the 90s, and that statement doesn’t exclude myself.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There’s a whole Flock of Seagulls that’s been around since the 80s!

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  • bstix@feddit.dk ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Are they still around? I heard they ran away. They ran so far away.

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• MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Well, there aren’t any actual “seagulls”. There are different types of gulls. And some seem more intelligent than others.

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  • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Are you telling me if I live by the sea, these gulls I see are not seagulls?

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    • L7HM77@sh.itjust.works ⁨26⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Sometimes they live in bays, then they’re called bagels.

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    • MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Technically, correct. They are different types of gulls.

      Most popular type is the: Herring Gull.

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• Zerush@lemmy.ml ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Stupidity is this what us made different from animals

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