Very happy to have been able to help get this experiment out in the world! Amazing work by @mandyridley.bsky.social and the Pied Babbler team!
Grace Blackburn
So happy to see this come to print after life took over & there was a delay btw data collection and writing up! We conduct an experimental test of central place foraging theory & ask how provisioning/distance trade-offs might differ in a cooperative breeder.
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This study experimentally investigated central place foraging theory in a cooperatively breeding bird, the Southern Pied Babbler. We found that while birds were more likely to provision when given fo...
