Bearing in mind that evolution can only provide for challenges encountered during R&D, we can predict that the more novel the artificial intrusions in the bird’s Umwelt are, the less likely it is that the bird will interpret them appropriately, unless the bird’s lineage evolved in a highly varied selective environment that obliged natural selection to settle on designs that are not entirely hard-wired but have a high degree of plasticity and the learning mechanisms to go with it.
