Pigeons Dreams

Ever dream of flying?   This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science.   During sleep, our brains alternate through dream AND non-dream states. But does this happen in other species as well?    Gianina Ungurean and team from Ruhr University Bochum explored this – in PIGEONS! 

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Pigeon Rivalry

Pigeons standing opposote each other by gate

Yankees versus Red Sox, an age-old rivalry! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. This hundred year old feud started when a Red Sox player moved to the Yankees. But is the quarrel JUST for the baseball fans? Or also for… the pigeons? Meet Elizabeth Carlen

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Rethinking Bird Brains

Can you think faster than a pigeon? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Most of us claim to be amazing multi-taskers. But what about birds? Researchers from Ruhr [ROOR] University Bochum [BOH-kum] in Germany decided to put this challenge to the test. They had about

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