The hairy–downy game revisited: an empirical test of the interspecific social dominance mimicry hypothesis
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DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2018.01.012
Abstract: © 2018 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour. Understanding the emergence and persistence of convergent phenotypes is the subject of considerable debate. Species may converge on nearly identical phenotypes for a variety of… read more here.
Keywords: downy; social dominance; downy woodpeckers; hypothesis ... See more keywords
Interspecific social information use in habitat selection decisions among migrant songbirds
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DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arx029
Abstract: Lay Summary A late arriving migrant bird species (wood warbler) are attracted to simulated presence of an earlier arriving species (chiffchaff). This habitat selection strategy was previously only described for migrants attracting to resident species,… read more here.
Keywords: habitat selection; selection; social information; interspecific social ... See more keywords