Water bathing alters threat perception in starlings.

Water bathing alters the speed - accuracy trade - off of 1 escape flights in European starlings

Influence of Taste and Color Cues on Bathing by Starlings in Appetitive and Adversive Contexts: Implications for Animal Damage Control

The importance of color and taste in feeding and drinking by omnivorous birds is context·dependent and influenced by learning. Here, we report three experiments designed to assess the influence of such characteristics on starlings. In Experiment 1, eight starlings were given a choice between bathing in red or plain water and 0.15 M NaCI solution or plain water. The frequencies of bathing, drink...

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Having a bath is one of the simple pleasures in life. There are many ways of relaxing in the bath; for children, the fun comes from having a tub that contains more toys thanwater (and the floor contains more water than toys), while for adults, water warms the outside and a good glass of wine warms the soul. For some animals, however, a bath may be a life or death matter; going without a bath mi...

Group membership alters the threshold for mind perception: The role of social identity, collective identification, and intergroup threat

• We tested intergroup mind perception with morphs between human and inanimate faces. • Participants had more lenient thresholds for perceiving minds in in-group faces. • Individual differences in collective identification moderated this bias. • Out-group threat was associated with lenient out-group mind perception. • Mind perception depends on contextual information in addition to bottom-up cues.

Dermatitis after Bathing with Well Water among a Group of Secondary Students Participating in SOTUS Activity