Julia Self

We see a lot of variation among these pairs and in terms of what the male and the female are doing, which is exciting.

And I think also kind of reflects like the variation we also see across species in our own lives in terms of what individuals do.

And it's exciting to see.

Yeah, I think it's really important to understand why animals do what they do and what information they use.

Because I can imagine with climate change, with change in biodiversity, if a certain species of plant, for instance, went extinct or was a lot less available, and we needed to seed or train birds to do something else in order for them to build nests, we would want to know how that information could flow, how we could have these populations adopt this information, and how we could potentially integrate this.

You know, the UN released a climate accord and talked about culture and the importance of animal culture and conformity and learning from each other in these biologically important behaviors.

So we now know nest building is important, but in that particular program, they talked about migration behaviors, hunting behaviors.

So how animals learn from each other and acquire these important behaviors is really fundamental.

And so although on the surface it's like really funny, like pink string in a nest, there actually is a lot of implications potentially in terms of conservation efforts.

Yeah, it's super interesting to see how different individuals prioritize their own opinions versus opinions of others.

You know, maybe these birds who are weakly biased, maybe they're just people pleaser birds and they're just relying on, you know, or bird pleaser birds, I guess would be the term here, but just relying on others to make decisions.

And so it's really interesting to see how different individuals balance their own preferences against what others are doing.

And it's exciting to see, you know, in the future, future research, what we might examine with that.

It's got to be blue.

Orange, yeah.

Absolutely.

Thank you so much for having me.

My name is Mickey Fox.

His troop.

No, that actually is very common and I think natural.