Tortoise hatchlings found to orient toward objects resembling faces

Tuesday, September 15, 2020 - 08:31 in Biology & Nature

A trio of researchers, one with the University of London, the other two with the University of Trento, has found that freshly hatched tortoises tend to orient themselves toward objects that resemble a face. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Elisabetta Versace, Silvia Damini and Gionata Stancher describe experiments they conducted with tortoise hatchlings and what they learned about them.

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