Comments on: Old tits conform to neighbours and young tits rebel http://natureafield.com/old-tits-conform-to-neighbours-and-young-tits-rebel/ thoughts, pictures, and videos from the natural world Wed, 15 May 2013 16:01:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Janne http://natureafield.com/old-tits-conform-to-neighbours-and-young-tits-rebel/#comment-1434 Janne Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:58:58 +0000 http://natureafield.com/?p=602#comment-1434 Hi Stephen, thanks for noticing our study, I am one of the authors. If you find the experimental system with symbols interesting, maybe you also like the other papers from this series of experiments (in chronological order):

SEPPÄNEN, J.-T. & FORSMAN J.T. 2007. Interspecific social learning: novel preference can be copied from a competing species. — Current Biology 17: 1248—1252.

SEPPÄNEN, J.-T., FORSMAN, J. T., MÖNKKÖNEN, M., KRAMS, I. & SALMI, T. 2011. New behavioural trait adopted or rejected by observing heterospecific tutor fitness. — Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 278: 1736—1741.

FORSMAN, J. T. & SEPPÄNEN, J.-T. 2011. Learning what (not) to do: testing rejection and copying of heterospecific behavioural trait. — Animal Behaviour 81: 879—883.

And Olli Loukola is just about to submit the fift paper, adding clutch size manipulation of live birds to the story.

Happy to send preprints if your uni library has no fulltext access.

]]> By: Steve http://natureafield.com/old-tits-conform-to-neighbours-and-young-tits-rebel/#comment-1323 Steve Tue, 03 Apr 2012 02:52:23 +0000 http://natureafield.com/?p=602#comment-1323 I don’t know what the thing is with EPC’s, but I imagine there could be a bit, like in a lot of ‘monogamous’ birds. It should be easy enough to look into, great tits have been heavily studied for ages.

]]> By: Ben http://natureafield.com/old-tits-conform-to-neighbours-and-young-tits-rebel/#comment-1322 Ben Tue, 03 Apr 2012 01:03:50 +0000 http://natureafield.com/?p=602#comment-1322 Ooooh yes! nice system.
Any indication on what the patterns are for extra-pair copulations?

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