Navigation in a Cup: Chick Positioning in Great Tit, Parus major, Nests
Kölliker. M. and Richner, H. (2004) Navigation in a cup: chick positioning in great tit, Parus major, nests. Anim. Behav. 68: 941-948.
Kolliker & Richner 2004.pdf
MEMO
子は親がどの方角からやってきやすいか解っていて、その場所をめぐって競争する、という仮説を検証。
自然状態の巣を観察。子を実験室に持ち込み、自然状態の巣と同じ巣箱に別々に入れ、餓えさせてどこに移動するか。
foraging hypothesis of sibling rivalry
ランダムから予測されるのとどれだけ違うか。親の来る位置はどれだけ予測しやすいかを実証しようとしている?
日齢によって親の給餌位置は変化していない?←ツバメでは事情が違うかも。
自然状態の巣を観察。子を実験室に持ち込み、自然状態の巣と同じ巣箱に別々に入れ、餓えさせてどこに移動するか。
foraging hypothesis of sibling rivalry
ランダムから予測されるのとどれだけ違うか。親の来る位置はどれだけ予測しやすいかを実証しようとしている?
日齢によって親の給餌位置は変化していない?←ツバメでは事情が違うかも。
Abstract
Parent birds often feed from predictable sites at the nest and nestlings compete for access to positions close to them. Such scrambling for stable parentally favoured positions may relate to optimal foraging theory. For efficient foraging, nestlings should be able to associate begging payoffs with the available positions in the nestcup and use this information to position themselves before parental arrival at the nest. We tested this predictionexperimentally in the great tit by keeping nestlings temporarily in the laboratory where they were housed individally in nestboxes identical to their natural boxes. After a period of food deprivation, we quantified thier positioning, taking the nest entrance as a reference. Parental feeding locations were measured from videos mde at the natural nests, again relative to the nest entrance. As predicted, nestlings in the laboratory boxes chose positions significantly closer to parental feeding sites than espected by chance. Thus, they had knowkedge about their parent's habit of feeding from predictable setes, enabling them to navigate and forege efficiently in the nestcup.
Outline
| + | ... |
Link
| + | ... |