{"id":26286,"date":"2009-04-07T20:12:55","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T20:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/04\/07\/it-turns-out-chicks-can-do-mat\/"},"modified":"2009-04-07T20:12:55","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T20:12:55","slug":"it-turns-out-chicks-can-do-mat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/07\/it-turns-out-chicks-can-do-mat\/","title":{"rendered":"It turns out chicks CAN do math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although they are mostly good at basic arithmetic.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Scientists from the universities of Padova and Trento demonstrated chicks&#8217; ability to add and subtract objects as they were moved behind two screens.<\/p>\n<p>Lucia Regolin, an author of the study said [they] &#8220;performed basic arithmetic&#8221; to work out which screen concealed the larger group of objects.<\/p>\n<p>The findings are reported in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/7975260.stm\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although they are mostly good at basic arithmetic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6PY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}