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Our new research has found the magpies that perform better on an associative learning task are better able to maintain their normal anti-predator behaviours in noise. We also played magpie alarm calls with and without the noise of planes in the background to 24 magpies to see how plane noise affected their anti-predator response. Researchers in the United Kingdom working on animal cognition suggest better cognition on a species level may help animals cope with new environments or environmental stress. [Extracted from the article]