The person is Alison George.
There are two people at the lab.
Cornero is a professor at the University of Cambridge.
A centre for research on bird intelligence at the University of Cambridge has been saved from closing thanks to a campaign started by a New Scientist article. The campaign secured the future of the facility.
In May, we reported on the race to re home the 25 jays and seven rooks in the Comparative Cognition Lab, which was in danger of closing due to funding difficulties.
The report prompted Jonathan Birch at the London School of Economics to write an open letter asking the university to reconsider the closing of the lab. The lab's closing would be a terrible loss to the sciences of mind and brain.
358 leading academics signed the letter. The facility will be running for the next five years thanks to the donations from the public.
The support from the University of Cambridge, as well as fellow academics and the general public, has been overwhelming. I am so thankful for every single penny. It has been a roller-coaster with a positive end.
The facility was founded 22 years ago and has been used to understand the cognitive abilities of corvids. The research shows how these birds have abilities that were thought to be limited to humans and apes.
The closing of the lab was personal to her because she and her team had invested a lot of time and money to make sure the birds were happy and willing to participate in the research. She says that the birds really want to work with them and fly over when they are called. If you want to understand how these birds think, you need to have their trust. The facility couldn't be set up elsewhere because of the close relationship between the birds and researchers.
Eva says that this is fantastic news. The research in this center is very important. New research questions about animals' intelligence, imagination, memory have been opened up thanks to the unique facilities of the lab, which has many animals.
Future research with the corvids is one of the ideas thatClayton has. She says they have a lot of plans for the work. There are a lot of unanswered questions about mental time travel. We want to investigate how the birds respond to mirrors and use magic to do so.
The study of how birds comprehend language will continue. An excellent understanding of the command "Wait" has been demonstrated by an 18-year-old rook named Leonardo.
She is hoping that more funding will be forthcoming to keep the facility going for longer than five years. She says that working with birds is a long-term project. You can't just stop.
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