/channels/news_feeds/all/term/Behavioral%20Ecology/rss en /channels/news/cities-breed-smarter-birds-259744 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><strong><em>By Cynthia Lee, <a href="//www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/">McGill Newsroom</a></em></strong></p> <p><em>Life in the city changes cognition, behavior and physiology of birds to their advantage</em></p> <p>Birds living in urban environments are smarter than birds from rural environments.</p> <p>But, why do city birds have the edge over their country friends? They adapted to their urban environments enabling them to exploit new resources more favorably than their rural counterparts, say a team of all-Ï㽶ÊÓƵ researchers.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/frontpicture.jpg?itok=hO-zEzXP" width="160" height="80" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">21 </span><span class="month">March </span><span class="year">2016</span></div></div></div></div></div> Mon, 21 Mar 2016 14:32:58 +0000 webfull 117502 at /channels