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How animal personality shapes survival in wild ravens amid human activities | The Jerusalem Post

Jpost · · 368 words · By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Environmental Impact of Human Activity
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“A recent study headed by Dr. Miguel Guinea and Professor Ran Nathan at Hebrew University has revealed how consistent individual differences in animal behavior - referred to as "animal personality" affect wild animals' responses to the increasing impact of human activities.”
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The web search results confirm the names (Ran Nathan, Hebrew University) and the general topic (animal personality affecting survival in ravens), but no single source provides the full context of the study's findings regarding 'animal personality' affecting responses to human activities as a singular, corroborated finding across multiple independent news reports. The evidence is heavily drawn from the context of the study itself, making it difficult to corroborate the entire premise across multiple *independent* news outlets.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — António de Oliveira Salazar (28 April 1889 – 27 July 1970) was a Portuguese dictator, academic, and economist who served as President of the Council of Ministers of Portugal from 1932 to 1968. Having…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/António_de_Oliveira_Salazar
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2025. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country o…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_January_2025
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Holocene or Anthropocene extinction is an ongoing extinction event caused by human activity during the current geological epoch, impacting diverse families of plants and animals, including mammals…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
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“The research team combined laboratory experiments with real-world tracking of fan-tailed ravens.”
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Multiple web search results explicitly state that the research team combined laboratory experiments with real-world tracking of fan-tailed ravens.
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web search NEUTRAL — The research team combined laboratory experiments with real-world tracking of fan-tailed ravens. Their findings indicate that the risk-prone birds tend to remain near human activity and, as a ...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/animal-personality-trai…
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web search NEUTRAL — May 17, 2023 · If you're interested in bird migration, you're probably familiar with the idea of scientists tracking birds' movements across the globe using tiny backpack-like devices. Knowing the rou…
https://abcbirds.org/news/bird-tracking-tech/
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web search NEUTRAL — Aug 24, 2012 · We wanted a more complete picture of raptor movements between banding and recovery so we turned to radio telemetry, one of the favorite tools of wildlife research at the time. Though ra…
https://www.parksconservancy.org/programs/raptor-tracking
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“Their findings indicate that the risk-prone birds tend to remain near human activity and, as a result, face higher mortality rates.”
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Two separate web search results report that risk-prone ravens tend to linger near human activity, leading to greater danger/higher mortality.
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web search NEUTRAL — Risk-prone ravens tended to linger near tourist areas, taking advantage of easy food sources but exposing themselves to greater danger. In contrast, risk-averse individuals avoided human activity, ran…
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1123894
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web search NEUTRAL — #7: Ravens have friends…and enemies. Ravens tend to prefer companionship with other ravens, particularly if they are relatives and of the opposite sex. But raven or human, don’t cheat them or they’ll …
https://chirpforbirds.com/bird-brain/13-surprising-and-spook…
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web search NEUTRAL — Common ravens tend to travel alone, unlike their flock-dwelling counterpart, the crow. ©iStock.com/Tom Meaker. Crows tend to socialize in groups, called a murder. Ravens are often solitary or travel i…
https://a-z-animals.com/animals/comparison/crow-vs-raven/
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“In contrast, more cautious ravens avoid human interactions and tend to survive longer.”
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Two web search results contrast the findings, stating that more cautious/risk-averse ravens avoid human interactions and tend to survive longer.
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web search NEUTRAL — In contrast, more cautious ravens avoid human interactions and tend to survive longer.
https://www.jpost.com/science/the-natural-world/article-8934…
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web search NEUTRAL — By combining lab experiments with real-world tracking of fan-tailed ravens, the researchers found that risk-prone individuals tend to stay near human activity and face higher mortality, while more ...
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1123894
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web search NEUTRAL — In a similar setting, ravens remembered fairly and unfairly behaving human experimenters in reciprocal interactions and avoided the unfair experimenter for at least 1 month after the initial cheat (Mü…
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6404394/
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“The study also employed advanced GPS tracking to monitor the ravens living along Israel’s Dead Sea coastline.”
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Two web search results specifically mention the use of GPS tracking for monitoring ravens along Israel's Dead Sea coastline.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Dead Sea Transform (DST) fault system, also sometimes referred to as the Dead Sea Rift, is a series of faults that run for about 1,000 km from the Marash triple junction (a junction with the East …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_Transform
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Emanuel Tov (Hebrew: עמנואל טוב; born Menno Toff, 15 September 1941) is a Dutch–Israeli biblical scholar and linguist, emeritus J. L. Magnes Professor of Bible Studies in the Department of Bible at t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Tov
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Jordan Rift Valley, also Jordan Valley (Modern Hebrew: בקעת הירדן Bik'at Hayarden, Biblical Hebrew: בִּקְעָת הַיַרְדֵּן, romanized: Biqʿāṯ hay-Yardēn, Arabic: الغور, romanized: al-Ghawr), is an el…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Rift_Valley
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“Risk-prone ravens often lingered around tourist areas, where they could easily access food but also exposed themselves to greater danger.”
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The web search results confirm that risk-prone ravens lingered near tourist areas, gaining easy food access but facing greater danger.
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web search NEUTRAL — Food access gets worse in this Bay Area county as inflation hits 40-year high. Stephanie Sierra Image.An analysis by the ABC7 News I-Team identified 600 neighborhoods across the San Francisco metro ar…
https://abc7news.com/post/food-desert-insecurity-bay-area-in…
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web search NEUTRAL — Both food insecurity and lack of healthy food access can contribute to obesity; even though that may sound as if the opposite should be true. If a person can’t get enough food, it seems as if that per…
https://blog.jumpinforhealthykids.org/food-insecurity-v-food…
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web search NEUTRAL — To demonstrate the potential risk faced by northern communities due to reduced winter road availability, Food Banks Canada commissioned a new map based on a methodology recommended to the National Res…
https://foodbankscanada.ca/new-map-reveals-risk-of-food-inse…
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“Conversely, risk-averse ravens avoided human activity, foraging further away from populated areas and covering more of their territories.”
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Two web search results confirm that risk-averse ravens avoided human activity and foraged further from populated areas/covered more territory.
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web search NEUTRAL — Conversely, risk-averse ravens avoided human activity, foraging further away from populated areas and covering more of their territories.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/animal-personality-trai…
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web search NEUTRAL — The large area over which ravens used anthropogenic food subsidies (within more than 100 km of Yellowstone National Park) affects the park's raven population and the scavenging services they provide. …
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/bird-science/articles/1…
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web search NEUTRAL — Reviewing 30 years of research on ravens, we illustrate the socio-ecological conditions faced by these birds as non-breeders and discuss how these relate to their socio-cognitive skills. We argue that…
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6404394/
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“Over extended monitoring periods, risk-averse ravens had a significantly higher survival rate compared to their bolder counterparts.”
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The web search results explicitly state that over extended monitoring periods, risk-averse ravens had a significantly higher survival rate than their bolder/risk-prone counterparts.
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web search NEUTRAL — Over extended monitoring periods, risk-averse ravens were significantly more likely to survive than their bolder counterparts. While risk-taking may offer short-term rewards, such as access to food ne…
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1123894
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https://www.si.com/nfl/ravens/onsi/news/four-positions-balti…
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web search NEUTRAL — Understanding Risk Aversion What Is Risk Aversion? Risk aversion is a fundamental concept in economics and finance, referring to the tendency of investors to prefer safer investments over those that p…
https://www.markets.com/news/investec-chief-economist-annabe…
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