Family living and cooperative breeding in birds are associated with the number of avian predators

L Bliard, P Dufour, M Griesser, R Covas - Evolution, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Cooperative breeding occurs when individuals contribute parental care to offspring that are
not their own. Numerous intra-and inter-specific studies have aimed to explain the evolution …

Plural breeding among unrelated females and other insights on complex social structure in the cooperatively breeding Variegated Fairywren

J Boersma, DJ Thrasher, JF Welklin… - Emu-Austral …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Cooperatively breeding species vary widely in degree of social complexity, and
disentangling relationships among group members can reveal the costs and benefits of …

Interspecific Aggression Of Two Wrens Along An Environmental Gradient In Western Ecuador

LD Montalvo, RT Kimball, SK Robinson - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Interspecific territoriality is a prevalent form of interference competition among animals.
However, the connections between hybridization, climate, and interspecies territorial …

Fluctuating environments favour cooperation among non-kin in birds

CH Wheat, E O'Connor, PA Downing, AS Griffin… - 2024 - ecoevorxiv.org
Cooperative groups are highly variable in relatedness and size, but whether this influences
the environments where species live remains unclear. We test the prediction that …