Fooled by a Sharpie! Cheating birds steered to fidelity with red marker

Tuesday, October 1, 2013 - 18:30 in Biology & Nature

Out in the Australian scrubland, scientists are using Sharpies to trick promiscuous female fairy-wrens from mating outside their subspecies, an "extra-marital" behavior that may be stalling evolution in its tracks.

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