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Drivers of alloparental provisioning of fledglings in a colonially-breeding bird
Offspring provisioning represents a major reproductive cost. However, evidence suggests that parents sometimes feed unrelated offspring. Several hypotheses could explain this puzzling phenomenon. Adults could feed unrelated offspring that are (1) of close social associates to facilitate these juveniles' integration into their social network (resulting in social inheritance), (2) potential extra-pair offspring, (3) at a similar developmental stage as their own, (4) coercing feeding by begging, or (5) less-developed and who's enhanced survival would benefit the adult or its own offspring (the group augmentation hypothesis). Colonial breeders are ideal for investigating the relative importance of these hypotheses because offspring are often kept in crèches where adults can exhibit allofeeding. Using automated monitoring of replicated captive zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) colonies, we found that while parents selectively fed their own offspring, they also consistently fed unrelated offspring (32.48% of feeding events). Social relationships among adults prior to breeding did not predict allofeeding, nor was provisioning directed towards unrelated offspring directed to potential genetic offspring. Instead, adults preferentially fed less-developed non-offspring, despite these not begging more frequently than larger ones did. Our study suggests that allofeeding is consistent with group augmentation, which could be beneficial through colony maintenance or increased offspring survival.
Immunocompetent birds choose larger breeding colonies
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Refuge abandonment in a formerly harvested waterbird and the consequent formation of multi-species bird colonies
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Drivers of alloparental provisioning of fledglings in a colonially-breeding bird
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Figure 2 in A treetop diner: camera trapping reveals novel arboreal foraging by fishing cats on colonial nesting birds in Bangladesh
Figure 2: Photo sequence of the arboreal predatory behaviour of the fishing cat captured on camera traps in northeast Bangladesh arranged in a clockwise sequence. (A–F) The first event on 03 August, 2022. (G–L) The second event on 02 October, 2022 (for descriptions see Table 1).
Figure 1 in A treetop diner: camera trapping reveals novel arboreal foraging by fishing cats on colonial nesting birds in Bangladesh
Figure 1: Location of the bird colony where the arboreal predatory behaviour of the fishing cat was captured on camera traps in northeast Bangladesh. (A) Fishing cat range in Bangladesh. (B) Northeast Bangladesh. (C) The Indian Oak/Hijal tree. Red circles denote the placement of the camera traps. The range map in Bangladesh is adapted from Mukherjee et al. (2016).
Data from: Ectoparasitism shortens the breeding season in a colonial bird
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Data from: Maternal allocation in relation to weather, predation, and social factors in a colonial cooperative bird
<p>Females may adjust prenatal allocation in relation to ecological conditions that affect reproductive success, such as weather conditions or predation risk. In cooperative breeders, helpers might also influence reproductive success and previous studies suggest that females can lay smaller eggs or larger clutches when breeding with more helpers. Although recent work suggests that helper effects can vary according to climatic variables, how social and ecological factors interact to shape prenatal allocation is poorly understood.</p> <p>Here, we examine how ecological and social components of the breeding environment co-vary with egg mass and clutch size, using as a model the sociable weaver (Philetairus socius), a colonial, cooperatively breeding passerine. The study spanned 9 years and included over 1900 eggs from over 550 clutches. Our analyses combined natural variation in weather conditions (rainfall before each reproductive event) with a nest predator-exclusion experiment and continuous monitoring of the mother's social environment, allowing us to estimate how individual females adjust allocation to reproduction as their number of helpers varies.</p> <p>We found that egg mass varied consistently within females and did not clearly differ in relation to rainfall or predation risk. Contrary to previous studies, there was no evidence for plastic adjustments as females gained and lost helpers and egg mass was instead better predicted by mother size and identity.</p> <p>Females laid larger clutches when breeding in environments where predation risk was experimentally reduced and after higher rainfall levels. Yet, there was no evidence for increasing clutch size as the number of helpers increased, nor for an interaction between helper effects and ecological factors.</p> <p>We conclude that while sociable weaver females can vary their clutch size, they show high individual consistency in egg mass. In addition, we found no evidence that females may maximise fitness through plastic prenatal allocation in relation to the number of helpers, or that the presence/absence of helper effects is modulated by rainfall levels or predation risk. These results challenge our current knowledge on some of the possible benefits of breeding with helpers and call for more long-term analyses on reproductive allocation adjustments in other cooperative systems.</p>
Synchronization processes of new breeders in a bird colony
<p>Data set for the Ms Synchronization processes of new breeders in a bird colony.</p>
Ant foraging behaviour (double bridge experiment). From "Modelling flocks of birds and colonies of ants from the bottom up"
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Data from: Maternal allocation in relation to weather, predation, and social factors in a colonial cooperative bird
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