Clever Budgies Make Better Mates (1 of 2) (VIDEO)

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A male budgerigar learned to open a three-step box to access food. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 11, 2019, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Jiani Chen at Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China, and colleagues was titled, "Problem-solving males become more attractive to female budgerigars."

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Jiani Chen

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