Twitter #4

Hello everyone! For this week, my tweets consists of chicken facts I found while researching on chicken cognition. There was one tweet that was unrelated, but I couldn't help but share it with the class! The unrelated tweet was somewhat on track... it was of penguins from "Happy Feet" SLAYYYYing Stray Kids' "God Menu"! Going back on track now, some cool facts I found about chickens, are that they have superior vision than us! The article I provided a link to goes over eight whole impressive eye features that chickens have! That along with their wavy brain, allows them to remember our faces just like the very intelligent crows! They also have a very wholesome side to them, as numerous research have shown that they are very caring of their nest and eggs (future children). The second embedded article goes more into depth on how chickens are very motherly. Let's just say, their motherhood is a lot more tender than I had expected. (I don't know how I feel about using the word 'tender' in this space...) My other two tweets were about how their welfare can't be determined by us, and how chickens talk to their unborn just like we humans do.

This week, I have found great accounts pertaining to my chosen species! If any of ya'll are in the same chicken boat as I am, I highly recommend Rachel Degrande. She is a phD student with a focus on hen's cognition! Absolutely amazing! Will be stalking her page 👀... Moving on, Vera Vinken is also a phD student although does not focus on chickens, she does post a lot about other birds. The other three accounts also shares the same composition.

For this week's blog response, I responded to Audrey Whitney's post on research overview and research articles. I figured it would be useful to see how others were finding their articles and thus this post was chosen. Her starting point was similar to mine in the sense we both used "(insert animal species) cognition." Out of the two articles she have chosen, one was written by a familiar researcher, John Marzluff. It is always fun to see his name, as his findings is highly notable. Her other chosen article was also interesting as the researcher aimed to find similarities between apes and corvids' cognition.