Scrub jays found to react to their dead

West­ern scrub jays sum­mon oth­ers to screech over the body of a dead jay, ac­cord­ing to new re­search from the Uni­vers­ity of Cal­i­for­nia, Da­vis. The ca­coph­o­nous bird “fu­ner­als” can re­portedly last for up to half an hour, though their pur­pose is un­known.