Key research by NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) livestock scientists has been heralded in a special online virtual issue of Animal Production.
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For the first time, a team of international scientists have proven that cockatoos, an iconic Australian bird species, learn from each other a unique skill lifting garbage bin lids to gather food. The world-first research published today in Science, confirms that cockatoos spread this novel behavior through social learning. Led by Barbara Klump and Lucy Aplin (Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior), along with John Martin (Taronga Conservation Society) and Richard Major (Australian Museum), the team have shown that this behavior by cockatoos is actually learnt, rather than a result of genetics.
Lead co-author, Barbara Klump, said social learning is the basis of different regional cultures, and some animals, such as primates and birds, appear to learn socially. “Children are masters of social learning. From an early age, they copy skills from other children and adults. However, compared to humans, there are few known examples of animals learning from eac
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A large number of 56 million-year-old fish fossils were discovered in an eastern Egyptian desert, showcasing that they were able to exist in seas with temperatures approaching 95 degrees Fahrenheit.
Microsoft today announced PyTorch Enterprise, a new Azure service that provides developers with additional support when using PyTorch on Azure. It’s basically Microsoft’s commercial support offering for PyTorch. PyTorch is a Python-centric open-source machine learning framework with a focus on computer vision and natural language processing. It was originally developed by Facebook and is, at […]