art – today's bird

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adding on to the list of things pigeons can do…become an art critic! scientists have found that pigeons can differentiate between paintings that we generalize as “good” and “bad”, and can recognize paintings we conceptualize as beautiful. pigeons were able to apply this concept to paintings they had never been shown before as well.

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scientists found that pigeons can be taught to successfully discriminate between paintings by monet and picasso. following the training, they were able to differentiate paintings by the artists that they had never been shown before.

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