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SUBMITTER: Moller AP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5383851 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Royal Society open science 20170329 3
Estimates suggest that perhaps a quarter of a billion birds are killed by traffic annually across the world. This is surprising because birds have been shown to learn speed limits. Birds have also been shown to adapt to the direction of traffic and lane use, and this apparently results in reduced risks of fatal traffic accidents. Such behavioural differences suggest that individual birds that are not killed in traffic should have larger brains for their body size. We analysed the link between be ...[more]