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over time, they are more likely to do so after a new "naive" bird is paired with a bird that has flown the route before. The introduction of a newcomer increased the time spent on exploration and resulted in the collective learning of better routes. Biro's work on bird navigation has presented evidence for cumulative cultural evolution, the ability to transfer knowledge across generations. This type of learning was previously thought to be too cognitively complex for birds, and possibly limited to humans.
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Through a series of studies at Oxford, Biro has examined how homing pigeons change their navigation behavior and learn new routes. Birds prefer individual routes and can remember them for years. After 12 flights, pigeons tended to fix their route. While pigeons may gradually shorten their routes
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In addition, her work with at Kyoto
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Biro studies the impact of individual differences in two major systems of behavior: social learning and group decision-making in the navigation of homing pigeons, and cultural learning among wild chimpanzees.
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learn innovative behaviors from younger ones than from those of their own age or older. New behaviors were more likely to be learned by adults if they were introduced by an adult new to the group.
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