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Re:Chickens Agree: Left Means Less; Right Means More by thret on Friday January 30, 2015 @08:55AM (#8971976)
“We cannot think of any other, and simpler, explanation for the behavior of the chicks" Dr. Rugani said in an email.

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Is anyone else skeptical about their findings? I am reminded of the Feynman story about the rat experiment by Mr. Young. http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2014/02/the_rat_experim...

Re:Chickens Agree: Left Means Less; Right Means More by bko on Friday January 30, 2015 @09:14AM (#8972056)
My favorite line from the article:

>The scientists trained 64 chicks to find a mealworm behind a plastic panel with five red squares on it (16 chicks were disqualified after showing “poor mealworm-following behavior,” the researchers wrote).

Re:Chickens Agree: Left Means Less; Right Means More by pvaldes on Friday January 30, 2015 @12:23PM (#8973062)
agree, the 16 left-winged superbrain chickens with X-ray eyes where disqualified... :-)