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Nest decoration: birds exploit a fear of feathers to guard their nest from usurpation

Many species of birds incorporate feathers into their nest as structural support and to insulate the eggs or offspring. Here, we investigated the novel idea that birds reduce the risk of nest usurpation by decorating it with feathers to trigger a fear response in their rivals. We let prospecting bir...

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Autores principales: Slagsvold, Tore, Wiebe, Karen L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8596015/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34804584
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.211579

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