التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Experimentally increased food resources in the natal territory promote offspring philopatry and helping in cooperatively breeding carrion crows. |
| المؤلفون: |
Vittorio Baglione, Daniela Canestrari, José M. Marcos, Jan Ekman |
| المصدر: |
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences; Jun2006, Vol. 273 Issue 1593, p1529-1535, 7p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
CROWS, BIRD food, BIRD breeding, BREEDING |
| مستخلص: |
Kin-based societies, where families represent the basic social unit, occur in a relatively small number of vertebrate species. In the majority of avian kin societies, families form when offspring prolong their association with the parents on the natal territory. Therefore, the key to understanding the evolution of families in birds is to understand natal philopatry (i.e. the tendency to remain on the natal territory). It has been shown that, within populations, the strength of the association between parents and offspring (i.e. family stability) increases when offspring dispersal is constrained by external environmental factors, but it is unclear whether and how family wealth influences juvenile dispersal decisions. Here, we show that young carrion crows (Corvus corone corone) from territories that were food-supplemented year-round were more philopatric and more likely to help at their family's nest than the unfed ones. The results suggest that offspring philopatry and helping behaviour are influenced by the quality of ‘home’ and that the availability of food resources positively affects the cohesion of the family. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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