Supplementary material from "Ospreys do not teach offspring how to kill prey at the nest"
There is strong evidence for teaching in only a handful of species, most of which are cooperative breeders, leading some researchers to suggest that teaching may be more likely to evolve in such species. Alternatively, this initial distribution could be an artefact of the popularity and tractability...
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ftdatacite:10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3846931 2023-05-15T18:50:56+02:00 Supplementary material from "Ospreys do not teach offspring how to kill prey at the nest" Howard, Megan Hoppitt, Will 2017 https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3846931 https://figshare.com/collections/Supplementary_material_from_Ospreys_do_not_teach_offspring_how_to_kill_prey_at_the_nest_/3846931 unknown Figshare https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2017.0346 CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 CC-BY Evolutionary Biology FOS Biological sciences 60801 Animal Behaviour Collection article 2017 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3846931 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2017.0346 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z There is strong evidence for teaching in only a handful of species, most of which are cooperative breeders, leading some researchers to suggest that teaching may be more likely to evolve in such species. Alternatively, this initial distribution could be an artefact of the popularity and tractability of cooperative breeders as behavioural study systems. Therefore, establishing or refuting this potential evolutionary link requires researchers to assess potential cases of teaching in more non-cooperatively breeding species. We tested for teaching in the osprey (Pandion haliaetus), a non-cooperatively-breeding bird anecdotally reported to teach hunting skills to their offspring. We tested whether parents brought back more live prey to the nest as their offspring got older, allowing the latter to practice killing prey in a manner analogous to the progressive teaching seen in meerkats. We found the opposite trend to that predicted by the teaching hypothesis, indicating that ospreys do not teach their young at the nest. Article in Journal/Newspaper osprey Pandion haliaetus DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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There is strong evidence for teaching in only a handful of species, most of which are cooperative breeders, leading some researchers to suggest that teaching may be more likely to evolve in such species. Alternatively, this initial distribution could be an artefact of the popularity and tractability of cooperative breeders as behavioural study systems. Therefore, establishing or refuting this potential evolutionary link requires researchers to assess potential cases of teaching in more non-cooperatively breeding species. We tested for teaching in the osprey (Pandion haliaetus), a non-cooperatively-breeding bird anecdotally reported to teach hunting skills to their offspring. We tested whether parents brought back more live prey to the nest as their offspring got older, allowing the latter to practice killing prey in a manner analogous to the progressive teaching seen in meerkats. We found the opposite trend to that predicted by the teaching hypothesis, indicating that ospreys do not teach their young at the nest. |
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