Significance of Allopreening in the Red Avadavat and its Development in Other Birds

Sparks, John

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“…These displays include curtseying, nodding, bowing, fluffed singing, and allopreening ( Figure 12) or contact perching and have been described by Kunkel (1967), Harrison (19656), and Sparks (1963Sparks ( , 1965. No agonistic or appeasement behavior between host and parasite was evident.…”

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Behavior, Mimetic Songs and Song Dialects, and Relationships of the Parasitic Indigobirds (Vidua) of Africa

Payne¹

1973

Ornithological Monographs

153

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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. University of California Pressand American Ornithologists' Union are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Ornithological Monographs. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 194.29.185.145 on Tue, 17 Jun 2014 23:53:26 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions Breeding plumages of the males of ten kinds of indigobirds. A, Vidua chalybeata chalybeata, form "aenea" (FMNH 278472, Richard-Toll, Senegal); B, V. c. amauropteryx (RBP 4469, Sabi Valley, Rhodesia); C, V. c. ultramarina (FMNH 204118, Mojjio, Ethiopia); D, V. funerea codringtoni (RBP 4437, Penhalonga-Umtali, Rhodesia); E, V. f. lusitensis ssp. nov. (RBP 4575, Lusitu River, Rhodesia); F, V. f. funerea (RBP 4424, 6 mi. E. Tzaneen, Transvaal); G, V. wilsoni, form "nigeriae" (RBP 4937, Panshanu Pass, Nigeria); H, V. wilsoni, form "camemnensis" (RBP 4855, Zaria, Nigeria); I, V. wilsoni, form "wilsoni" (RBP 4960, Zaria, Nigeria); J, V. purpurascens (RBP 4419, Merensky Reserve, Transvaal).

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Section: Behavioral Interactions Between Indigobirds and Firefinchesmentioning

confidence: 98%

Behavior, Mimetic Songs and Song Dialects, and Relationships of the Parasitic Indigobirds (Vidua) of Africa

Payne¹

1973

Ornithological Monographs

153

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“…As in mammals, allopreening may be a mechanism for expressing social relationships within groups (Gaston 1977), which may facilitate the establishment and maintenance of social cohesion within pairs or social groups (e.g. Sparks 1963;Harrison 1965;Kunkel 1974;Gaston 1977;Barbour and DeGange 1982;Radford and Du Plessis 2006;Emery et al 2007), particularly in association with social conflict (Radford 2008a(Radford , b, 2010, and may decrease aggression within as well as between pairs in colonial species (Lewis et al 2007). Thus, allogrooming and allopreening appear to have analogous functions in social mammals and birds.…”

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Strategic use of allopreening in family-living wrens

Gill

2012

Behav Ecol Sociobiol

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A prominent interaction in the lives of social mammals is allogrooming. Individuals allogroom strategically and preferentially, grooming high-quality individuals that control access to resources. This results in distinct patterns of allogrooming within social groups, such that some individuals are groomed more than the others, some dyads express symmetry in allogrooming, and others exchange allogrooming for other benefits. Allopreening, the avian equivalent of allogrooming, occurs commonly in group-living birds, providing the opportunity to test whether social birds also use allopreening strategically in their social relationships. I examined this hypothesis in family-living buff-breasted wrens (Cantorchilus leucotis) by examining allopreening initiation, reciprocation and rate during interactions involving breeding adults and offspring. Buffbreasted wrens exhibit a nuclear family structure in which pairs display long-term partnerships, and juveniles delay dispersing from natal territories for about 10 months. Allopreening was symmetrical between breeding partners: males and females who initiated and reciprocated allopreening of partners with similar frequency, and within reciprocated bouts, allopreening was time-matched. Pairs in which allopreening was not observed were more likely to divorce, but allopreening patterns did not change in successive years of partnerships. Parentoffspring allopreening, by contrast, was asymmetrical in pattern; parents initiated allopreening more than their offspring, and reciprocation never occurred. The different patterns of allopreening observed within buff-breasted wren families suggest the strategic use of allopreening, possibly for the maintenance of long-term partnerships and in exchange for social benefits from offspring.

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Some factors affecting the flock behaviour of red avadavats (Amandava amandava) with particular reference to clumping

Evans¹

1970

Animal Behaviour

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Significance of Allopreening in the Red Avadavat and its Development in Other Birds

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Behavior, Mimetic Songs and Song Dialects, and Relationships of the Parasitic Indigobirds (Vidua) of Africa

Behavior, Mimetic Songs and Song Dialects, and Relationships of the Parasitic Indigobirds (Vidua) of Africa

Strategic use of allopreening in family-living wrens

Some factors affecting the flock behaviour of red avadavats (Amandava amandava) with particular reference to clumping

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