Hot and dry conditions predict shorter nestling telomeres in an endangered songbird: Implications for population persistence

JR Eastwood, T Connallon, K Delhey… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Climate warming is increasingly exposing wildlife to sublethal high temperatures, which may
lead to chronic impacts and reduced fitness. Telomere length (TL) may link heat exposure to …

[HTML][HTML] Context-dependent social benefits drive cooperative predator defense in a bird

N Teunissen, SA Kingma, M Fan, MJ Roast, A Peters - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Understanding the major evolutionary transition from solitary individuals to complex
societies is hampered by incomplete insight into the drivers of living in cooperative groups. 1 …

Determinants of hyena participation in risky collective action

TM Montgomery, KDS Lehmann… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Collective action problems arise when cooperating individuals suffer costs of cooperation,
while the benefits of cooperation are received by both cooperators and defectors. We …

Age-and sex-dependent variation in relatedness corresponds to reproductive skew, territory inheritance, and workload in cooperatively breeding cichlids

D Josi, D Heg, T Takeyama, D Bonfils, DA Konovalov… - …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Kin selection plays a major role in the evolution of cooperative systems. However, many
social species exhibit complex within-group relatedness structures, where kin selection …

Bullying as an advertisement of social dominance in common waxbills

P Beltrão, ACR Gomes… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Bullying consists of preferentially attacking individuals lowest in the dominance hierarchy,
and its functions are unclear because the most subordinate individuals do not pose social …

Nest defence and offspring provisioning in a cooperative bird: individual subordinates vary in total contribution, but no division of tasks among breeders and …

N Teunissen, SA Kingma, A Peters - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2020 - Springer
Research aimed at understanding the evolution of costly, seemingly altruistic helping
behaviour in cooperative birds has strongly focused on a single aspect of helping—offspring …

Cooperative rescue of a juvenile capuchin (Cebus imitator) from a Boa constrictor

KM Jack, MR Brown, MS Buehler… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
The threat of predation by snakes is considered to have played a significant role in the
evolution of primate sensory systems and behavior. However, we know relatively little about …

Low‐and high‐intensity fire in the riparian savanna: Demographic impacts in an avian model species and implications for ecological fire management

N Teunissen, H McAlpine, SF Cameron… - Journal of Applied …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is driving changes in fire frequency and intensity, making it more urgent for
conservation managers to understand how species and ecosystems respond. In tropical …

Best of both worlds? Helpers in a cooperative fairy-wren assist most to breeding pairs that comprise a potential mate and a relative

N Teunissen, M Fan, MJ Roast… - Royal Society …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
In cooperative breeders, individuals forego independent reproduction and help others raise
offspring. Helping is proposed to be driven by indirect benefits from raising relatives, and/or …

Which plumage patches provide information about condition and success in a female fairy-wren?

S Nolazco, K Delhey, M Fan, ML Hall… - Behavioral …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Recent evidence suggests that female ornaments can commonly act as signals. However,
how signaling functions might be affected by the tendency for reduced ornament elaboration …