Milk bottle-raiding birds pass on thieving ways to their flock
Thursday, December 4, 2014 - 08:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Great tits are opportunistic copycats. Entire populations can be found performing the same arbitrary behaviour simply because birds copy one another, following a fashion. And it's this behaviour, reported in a paper published in Nature, that explains the great milk bottle raids that baffled milk drinkers in Britain almost a century ago.