Conversations with Tyler / episode intelligence
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16 published records
01 / belief
“I don’t think the puffins will go extinct on a couple-century scale, but their distributions and lives are really going to change, I think.”
02 / uncertainty
“When I saw it — and maybe it is in black and white; I saw it in TV in black and white as a kid — I just crossed my arms, and I don’t know, I’ve never seen it since.”
03 / uncertainty
“I don’t know that literature, but there are certainly examples of birds that appear to be mourning or understanding that their compatriots are physically present, but no longer living, [laughs] whatever that is.”
04 / belief
“I think one of the things that can impress a person without the experience to understand that the hard work is worthwhile, or will be worthwhile, is spectacle.”
05 / belief
“I think there’s a lot of damage to be afraid of nature. I know people that are bird phobic, and I’m not sure whether it arises from something like that movie.”
06 / belief
“Things like Carolina wren, which is a bird expanding — I think a big ice storm will set down Carolina wren populations at the edge of the range in New England or the Mid-Atlantic.”
07 / preference
“I have cardinals and blue jays in my backyard. I enjoy them greatly. I like their colors.”
08 / evaluation
“Because life history theory tells you that there’s no upside to delaying reproduction if all things are equal, but they must be getting better at something.”
09 / evaluation
“Of course, maybe one of the reasons why flying squirrels haven’t taken over the world is because they never got to powered flight like birds did, which obviously is going a lot further.”
10 / evaluation
“What that means is that it’s often more helpful or more useful for individuals to delay dispersal until their reproductive age.”
11 / evaluation
“I think that there are some downsides, in particular being sites of potential infection for diseases that are moving through.”
12 / prediction
“Those two forms of variation will start to co-vary, and that means when an individual selects on a mate, they’re also indirectly selecting on co-varying or correlated genetic variation for preference.”
13 / evaluation
“I think that’s because humans are intelligent, and we have time on our hands and excess cognition and curiosity to burn, and that leads us to become fascinated by nature.”
14 / evaluation
“For example, sometimes hummingbirds will defend a floral resource, and then when it gets big enough, they’ll just give it up because there’s no reason to do it anymore.”
15 / evaluation
“The scale of cat death — I don’t know the numbers, but way more birds are killed by cats than are killed by all the wind power in America.”
16 / prediction
“Usually, a large number of them are at least male offspring of previous years that are hanging around helping mom and dad or some adults raise their relatives. This probably arises — and is very common in Australian birds — it probably arises because of very high habitat variability, in particular variability in rainfall, as you see already.”