ArticleRoyal Society open science2025
In sickness and in health: group-living augments behavioural responses to food and predation risk for sick house finches (
Article in Royal Society open science, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Hard to handle: infected house finches do not prefer easier-to-consume food.Animal behaviour · 2026Article
- Muscling in on immunity: the role of muscle in the insect immune response, demonstrating the value of a whole organism perspective.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Review
- In sickness and in health: group-living augments behavioural responses to food and predation risk for sick house finches (Royal Society open science · 2025Article
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Abstract
Group-living provides many fitness benefits for individual members, including improved foraging and predator vigilance. If such benefits are especially pronounced for sick members, group-living can act as a form of behavioural tolerance by offsetting mortality costs of infection. We experimentally tested this possibility by examining whether group-living impacts foraging and anti-predator behaviours in house finches (
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