Pigeons have their own superstitions

from A Moment of Science · host Indiana Public Media

Would you be surprised to learn that human beings aren't the only animals to behave superstitiously? The psychologist B.F. Skinner showed that you can even form a superstitious belief...in a pigeon.

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