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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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:5582113 2023-05-15T18:50:56+02:00 Ospreys do not teach offspring how to kill prey at the nest Howard, Megan Hoppitt, Will 2017-08 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5582113/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28835470 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2017.0346 en eng The Royal Society http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5582113/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28835470 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2017.0346 © 2017 The Author(s) http://royalsocietypublishing.org/licence Published by the Royal Society. All rights reserved. Animal Behaviour Text 2017 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2017.0346 2018-08-05T00:16:59Z 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. Text osprey Pandion haliaetus PubMed Central (PMC) Biology Letters 13 8 20170346 |
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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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Ospreys do not teach offspring how to kill prey at the nest |
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Ospreys do not teach offspring how to kill prey at the nest |
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Ospreys do not teach offspring how to kill prey at the nest |
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Ospreys do not teach offspring how to kill prey at the nest |
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Ospreys do not teach offspring how to kill prey at the nest |
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ospreys do not teach offspring how to kill prey at the nest |
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5582113/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28835470 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2017.0346 |
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