Amanda R. Ridley

TL;DR: The value of investigations of temperature-dependent behaviour in the context of impacts on body condition is demonstrated, and it is suggested that increasingly high temperatures will have negative implications for the fitness of these arid-zone birds.

TL;DR: It is shown that in wild, cooperatively breeding Australian magpies, individuals that live in large groups show increased cognitive performance, which is linked to increased reproductive success, and a positive association between the task performance of females and three indicators of reproductive success is found, thus identifying a selective benefit of greater cognitive performance.

TL;DR: This work investigates the response of cooperatively breeding pied babblers to the drongo, an avian kleptoparasite that regularly follows pied babbler groups, often giving alarm calls to alert the group to predators but also occasionally giving false alarm calls in order to steal food items.

TL;DR: Evidence for rudimentary compositionality in the discrete vocal system of a social passerine, the pied babbler, is provided and indicates that the ability to combine and process meaningful vocal structures, a basic syntax, may be more widespread than previously thought.

TL;DR: This study provides some of the first evidence that higher temperatures affect investment decisions in cooperative breeders and that dominant and subordinate individuals respond differently to this stressor.