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Foraging behaviour alters with social environment in a juvenile songbird (2020)
Journal Article
Franks, V., G. Ewen, J., McCready, M., & Thorogood, R. (2020). Foraging behaviour alters with social environment in a juvenile songbird. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287(1939), https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.1878

Early independence from parents is a critical period where social information acquired vertically may become outdated, or conflict with new information. However, across natural populations, it is unclear if newly independent young persist in using in... Read More about Foraging behaviour alters with social environment in a juvenile songbird.

Analysing age structure, residency and relatedness uncovers social network structure in aggregations of young birds (2020)
Journal Article
Franks, V., G. Ewen, J., McCready, M., Marcus Rowcliffe, J., Smith, D., & Thorogood, R. (2020). Analysing age structure, residency and relatedness uncovers social network structure in aggregations of young birds. Animal Behaviour, 166, 73-84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.06.005

Animal sociality arises from the cumulative effects of both individual social decisions and environmental factors. While juveniles' social interactions with parents prior to independence shape later life sociality, in most bird and mammal species at... Read More about Analysing age structure, residency and relatedness uncovers social network structure in aggregations of young birds.