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Can keas be trained to avoid poison?

Postby Pajarita » Thu Jul 23, 2020 10:52 am

Scientists are trying to come up with a way of training wild keas not to eat the poison baits they use to kill their predators:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/arti ... d=12350134
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