funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (32301295 to J.W.,32101242 to L.M.and 32260253 to L.W.);High-Level Talents Research Start-Up Project of Hebei University (521100222044 to J.W.)。
Nest predation is the leading cause of reproductive failure in birds and a major driving force in the evolution of anti-predation strategies.Current studies on the anti-predation strategies of birds driven by predatio...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.32270526 to W.L.and 32260253 to L.W.);supported by the specific research fund of The Innovation Platform for Academicians of Hainan Province;supported by the Hainan Province Postdoctoral Research Project。
Common Cuckoos(Cuculus canorus)dependent on parental care for post-hatching demonstrate an intriguing ability to modify their begging vocalizations to ensure maximum care and resources from their interspecific foster ...
Research was funded through projectsCGL2007-61395,CGL2010-15726,CGL2013-42451-P;PID2019-109685GB-100 of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation。
Carotenoids are diet-based micronutrients important in health and coloration signaling.Related species with similar diets can differ in the kinds and levels of circulating carotenoids,which suggests specific physiolog...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China[31301889];the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities[lzujbky-2014-97,lzujbky-2021-sp03].
The behavioral video recordings of the gray-backed shrike Lanius tephronotus revealed that parent birds eat the feces produced by their nestlings.“Parental nutrition hypothesis”attributes the origin of this behavior...
supported by two projects in the National Plan of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competition(CGL2014-55969-P and CGL2017-84938-P);the Andalusian government(A-RNM-48-UGR20);financed with FEDER funds from the European Union(EU);funded by Erasmus+grants from the EU;supported by a FPU pre-doctoral contract from the Spanish Ministry of Education(FPU18/03034)。
Several ectoparasites parasitise nestlings decreasing their body condition,growth and survival.To minimise any loss of fitness due to ectoparasites,birds have developed a wide variety of defence mechanisms,potentially...
supported by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia;Innovación y Universidades and European(FEDER)Funds(CGL2017-83103-P)。
Sibling cannibalism is relatively common in nature,but its evolution in birds and certain other vertebrates with extended parental care had been discarded.Here,however,we demonstrate its regular occurrence in two Euro...
When the pdf version of this paper first published,there were a number of errors in the reference list:accented letters were displaying incorrectly,leading to errors in author names throughout the list.This has now be...
This study was funded by the National Science Centre,Poland:NCN 2012/05/E/NZ8/02694 and NCN 2016/23/B/NZ8/03082;the Japan Society for Promotion of Science(JSPS):grant no.24-4578(to N.J.S.);24770028(to K.D.T.),23255004(to K.U.);by Rikkyo University:SFR 11-54(to N.J.S.).
Nestling rejection is a rare type of host defense against brood parasitism compared with egg rejection.Theoretically,host defenses at both egg and nestling stages could be based on similar underlying discrimination me...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.32071515)。
Background:In high latitude grassland habitats,altricial nestlings hatching in open-cup nests early in the breeding season must cope with cold temperature challenges.Thyroid hormones(triiodothyronine,T_(3)and thyroxin...
Background:Accurate nestling age is valuable for studies on nesting strategies,productivity,and impacts on repro-ductive success.Most aging guides consist of descriptions and photographs that are time consuming to rea...