Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Swallows learn to open an automatic door to get access to their preferred nesting site.



"When the University of Victoria in Canada opened a new campus bike centre in the parkade located under the University Centre last November, motion-activated doors were installed to discourage swallows from nesting in the new facility. But when the swallows returned to their familiar nest sites a few weeks ago, they were undeterred by this peculiar impediment: they quickly learned how to open the doors by flying in front of the infrared motion detector, as you see in this video."

Via Tai Wiki Widbee

2 comments:

  1. Well, technically they ARE evolved dinosaurs.

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    1. This is evidence of advanced development. Next the swallows will master the internet and start blogging.

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