Birds learn stranger danger by being taught 'foreign language'

By Lucy Stone
Updated August 15 2018 - 9:17am, first published August 14 2018 - 9:38pm

Wild fairy-wrens have been taught to associate random sounds played to them by scientists with predators and danger, in research that could help save some of Australia’s most endangered species.

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