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rmonclus.bsky.social
Our paper about conspecific brood parasitism in the spotless starling is published in Biol. Lett. We showed that starlings can discriminate parasitic eggs, and that they use egg size as a cue to eject parasitic eggs. All the details in royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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A nest with 4 spotless starling eggs. One of the eggs is a 3D printed egg used in the size discrimination experiment. Hosts rejected eggs that were smaller than their own, and accepted larger eggs.
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heikorodel.bsky.social
Fully funded PhD position on Paternities and spatial kinship structure in a population of South African bush Karoo rats. Field work in South Africa. Analysis of existing long-term data at LEEC / Univ. Sorbonne Paris Nord. Please RT!
www-leec.univ-paris13.fr/documents/LE...