Researchers say birds hold funerals for their dead

Funerals by definition are ceremonies honoring a dead person, but researchers have just observed what appears to be the avian version of a funeral.

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Teresa Iglesias and colleagues studied the western scrub jay and discovered that when one bird dies, the others do not just ignore the body. Multiple jays often fly down to gather around the deceased.

The subsequent ceremony isn't quiet either.

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