ArticleBiology letters2014
Females that experience threat are better teachers.
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- Social factors in bird-song development: Learning to sing with friends and rivals.Learning & behavior · 2021Review
- The role of food transfers in wild golden lion tamarins (Leontopithecus rosalia): Support for the informational and nutritional hypothesis.Primates; journal of primatology · 2021Article
- Parent-embryo acoustic communication: a specialised heat vocalisation allowing embryonic eavesdropping.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Food-Offering Calls in Wild Golden Lion Tamarins (International journal of primatology · 2018Article
- Prenatal environment affects embryonic response to song.Biology letters · 2017Article
- Female in-nest chatter song increases predation.Biology letters · 2016Article
- Prenatal learning in an Australian songbird: habituation and individual discrimination in superb fairy-wren embryos.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2014Article
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Abstract
Superb fairy-wren (Malurus cyaneus) females use an incubation call to teach their embryos a vocal password to solicit parental feeding care after hatching. We previously showed that high call rate by the female was correlated with high call similarity in fairy-wren chicks, but not in cuckoo chicks, and that parent birds more often fed chicks with high call similarity. Hosts should be selected to increase their defence behaviour when the risk of brood parasitism is highest, such as when cuckoos are present in the area. Therefore, we experimentally test whether hosts increase call rate to embryos in the presence of a singing Horsfield's bronze-cuckoo (Chalcites basalis). Female fairy-wrens increased incubation call rate when we experimentally broadcast cuckoo song near the nest. Embryos had higher call similarity when females had higher incubation call rate. We interpret the findings of increased call rate as increased teaching effort in response to a signal of threat.
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