In an experiment, two ravens had to simultaneously pull the two ends of one rope to slide a platform with two pieces of cheese into reach. If only one of them pulled, the rope would slip through the loops, leaving them with no cheese. Without any training they solved the task and cooperated successfully.
However, when one of the two birds cheated and stole the reward of its companion, the victims of such cheats immediately noticed and started defecting in further trials with the same individual.
“Such a sophisticated way of keeping your partner in check has previously only been shown in humans and chimpanzees, and is a complete novelty among birds.”
It’s happened! We’ve had our millionth image uploaded to the site. (And, at the same time, quite a few others).
Derpibooru was first launched in 2012, and really kicked off in July of that year. It’s been one hell of a ride. A few years on and a million images in and we’ve also got over 200,000 tags, 4,320,000 comments, 150,000 users and 1,700,000 forum posts.
1 million uploads isn’t really about all the pony we’ve got. Okay, it’s a little bit about that. Really, though, it’s about the amazing community around the site. Thank you all for sharing 1 million images; here’s to the next million.
Love, Clover, Carcer, The Smiling Pony, and the Derpibooru administration team:
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