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Humans make mistakes, but how often do other animals? Are some more prone to errors and do they learn from them?
David Bortin
Whittier, California, US
“To err is human”? Wrong! To err is life. Everything that has ever lived has been a product of natural selection. Those that learn from their mistakes survive. Even the lowly virus responsible for covid-19, which is only debatably living, is so much in the news because it keeps evolving, or learning from its mistakes.
Among wild animals, birds’ mistakes most often make the headlines, by flying into window panes and windmill vanes.…
