Birds learn new foraging techniques by observing others in their social network, 'copycat' behaviour that can sustain foraging 'traditions' that last years, according to a study of how innovations spread and persist in wild ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 3, 2014
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A team of scientists led by Prof. Kang Le at the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has reported an unprecedented animal defense mechanism by which an olfactory aposematic (warning) signal can be converted ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 28, 2019
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Birds in the wild appear to lower their bill temperature to prevent heat loss in order to preserve energy when food is scarce, according to new research.
Plants & Animals
Apr 21, 2020
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A new study has shed light on the potential of birds to survive in the face of climate change. In the analysis, based on more than fifty years' detailed study of a population of great tits near Oxford, UK, a team of scientists ...
Ecology
Jul 9, 2013
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An ever warmer climate could be bad news for species that depend on stable and abundant access to food at certain times of the year.
Plants & Animals
Nov 5, 2020
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Urban breeding birds appeared to cope better with the UK's cold, wet spring of 2012 than those living in woodland.
Plants & Animals
Nov 27, 2013
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New Research from Oxford University has revealed that shifts in the timing of egg laying by great tits in response to climate change vary markedly between breeding sites within the same woodland and that this variation is ...
Environment
Sep 28, 2021
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Bold great tits lay their eggs earlier when under threat, the shy ones put it off. Such personality differences help maintain the biological variation essential for the survival of populations, as LMU biologists have now ...
Evolution
Apr 8, 2019
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The lengthening of days in late winter is an important signal that stimulates the reproductive activity of many animals. Animals living in the milder climatic conditions of southern Europe usually begin breeding earlier in ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 24, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- A new way of analysing the social networks that link individual animals to each other has been tested on wild great tits by Oxford University researchers.
Plants & Animals
Jun 13, 2012
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