#5 Grackle vs Corvid - Motor inhibition on the detour task
Grackles make the correct choice & detour to the side of a transparent tube to get food in 70.6% of the time, Eurasian jays 58.3%, & Western scrub jays 76.7%
Score 3:5 (tie bc grackles are at high end of corvid range)
Video https://youtu.be/TXFOYqZztf4?feature=shared
Grackle: https://doi.org/10.26451/abc.09.01.03.2022
Corvid: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1323533111 (NOTE: other researchers ran the research on the other species & I used their methods to test grackles)
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