Study shows fairy-wrens learn to drive off cuckoos from their neighbors
Thursday, June 13, 2013 - 11:02
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org) —William Feeney and Naomi Langmore, researchers with Australia's Research School of Biology, have found that fairy-wrens learn to distrust cuckoos by watching other nearby fairy-wrens react to them. In their paper published in the journal Biology Letters describing a field study involving the use of a stuffed bird, the researchers noted changes in behavior by fairy-wrens after learning to distrust cuckoos.