Azure winged magpies cooperate to get food

Researchers investigated prosociality in the cooperatively breeding corvid Cyanopica cyana (Azurewinged magpie) and discovered that the birds operated the apparatus to deliver food to their group members at high rates. Thus, authors conclude, Azurewinged magpies are the first birds that experimentally show proactive prosociality. Credit: Proactive prosociality in a cooperatively breeding corvid, the azurewinged magpie (Cyanopica cyana) Lisa Horn, Clara Scheer, Thomas Bugnyar, Jorg J. M. Massen Biology L