that person.The neutral face was mostly ignored
The gender or body type of whoever was wearing the dan
gerous mask didn't much matter-the crows seemed to key in on
the face.Researchers even put the mask upside down to see if the
crows could still recognize it."For a brief moment,the crows
seemed a little confused,and then they would just turn their
head upside down and then they'd start an alarm-calling,Swift
says.
Even crows that hadn't been banded scolded
l and dive
bombed the wearer of the dangerous mask.Swift says this sug
gests the crows "were actually learning from their peers that this
particular person is dangerous".
The researchers fed crows over the course of several days to