SETI bioastro: Coots Can Count

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From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Thu Apr 03 2003 - 07:15:56 PST

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    To most people, coots are noisy, quarrelsome water birds that do a lot of splashing about. But it turns out they are also closet cuckoos. Not only that, they can count.
    The discovery was made by Bruce Lyon, a biologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His study of an American coot colony in British Columbia, Canada, is the first to show that birds can keep a reckoning of the eggs they lay. It also highlights an extremely rare example of counting by a wild animal.

    http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/04/0402_030402_coots.html

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