Males and females often exhibit different behaviours during mate acquisition, pair‐bonding
and parenting, and a convenient label to characterize these behaviours is sex role. The …

Behavioral Ecology of Tropical Birds, Second Edition provides the most updated and
comprehensive review on the evolution of behavior in tropical landbirds. The book reviews …

Territorial defence depends on highly interrelated factors such as food abundance and
conspecific density. We used Dupont's Lark Chersophilus duponti as a model species to …

Dear enemy and nasty neighbour are both phenomena that depend on the ability to
discriminate between neighbours and strangers. Although both mechanisms reduce costs in …

Although interspecific interactions appear to be less competitive than intraspecific ones,
interspecific territoriality is much more frequent and more stable than is commonly believed …

Aerobically demanding activities like aggression can lead to an elevated oxidative
metabolism affecting the concentration of pro-oxidant and antioxidant compounds and can …

Social discrimination is used as a territorial cost-mitigation behaviour across several
taxonomic groups. However, whether this phenomenon is similar across populations or …

Model organisms help us understand biological processes and provide insights applicable
to other organisms. Birds are commonly used as model organisms. However, since most …

Highlights•Rufous horneros were exposed to playbacks of duets varying in temporal
coordination.•Coordinated duets provoked the weakest response from birds.•However …

Many bird species defend their territories against conspecifics during the breeding season.
Although some temperate species have been observed to defend territories outside of the …