Finches Seek Out Sick Dining Companions - Wildlife Gardeners

Staff · 03-08-2010, 09:16 PM

Finches Seek Out Sick Dining Companions
Scientific American
February 19, 2010

Finches Seek Out Sick Dining Companions: Scientific American Podcast
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When you’re looking for a table in a crowded cafeteria, you probably give wide berth to the family that sounds like it’s sharing a big dish of whooping cough. Well, not if you’re a house finch, particularly a male. Because a study in the journal Biology Letters [by Karen M. Bouwman and Dana M. Hawley at Virginia Tech; see Sickness behaviour acting as an evolutionary trap? Male house finches preferentially feed near diseased conspecifics â€” Biology Letters] shows that male finches actually prefer...

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Equilibrium · 03-08-2010, 11:27 PM

Makes sense if you think about it. Makes sense to bleach our feeders when we can too.

03-08-2010, 11:27 PM	#2
Equilibrium Official Plant Nerd Join Date: Dec 2008	Makes sense if you think about it. Makes sense to bleach our feeders when we can too. __________________ "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

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