True grit in pigeons!

What is it about?

The study is about resilience training in a nonhuman. Briefly, there were two groups of birds, both trained on the same task, but one group was trained with many different versions of that task, whereas the other group was trained with few versions of the task. Both groups were then tested with a very difficult version of the task. Those birds that were trained with with few versions of the task gave up much sooner on the difficult task than those that were trained with many versions. Those that were trained with many versions showed resilience, or true grit!

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Why is it important?

Resilience in a very topical subject matter, and we show that the same mechanisms that govern human behavior govern nonhuman behavior