The kea parrot (Nestor notabilis), produces a laughter-like “play call” when they are playing. Researchers used recorded play calls from captive kea to test how they affected wild kea and found both juveniles and adults respond to the recorded play call — by playing!

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If you missed out on your local Gamestop’s Nintendo Switch shipments earlier in the week, you’ll get another chance tomorrow at Toys R’ Us.

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This week, Italian archaeologists revealed that 38 graves have recently been uncovered in the Trastevere district of the city of Rome. The skeletons were found within a Jewish necropolis that points to the oft-overlooked Jewish population that lived, worked and died in premodern Rome.

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Ghost Recon: Wildlands is competent, but it’s also one of the most generic open world games on the market in an era when there’s been a lot of creativity in the genre.

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