The role of adult experience in nest building in the zebra finch, Taeniopygia guttata
The role of adult experience in nest building in the zebra finch, Taeniopygia guttata
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10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.04.021
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2011-08-01
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2.5
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Healy, Susan D.
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Muth, Felicity;Healy, Susan D.
学习是否在鸟类筑巢中起作用在很大程度上是未知的。在这里，我们研究了用于建造第一个鸟巢的巢材料的颜色是否会影响雄性斑胸草雀在建造第二个鸟巢时选择的巢材料。雄性被测试了它们对绿色或棕色筑巢材料的偏好，然后提供它们喜欢或不喜欢的颜色来建造它们的第一个巢穴。这次筑巢尝试的成功被操纵了，一半的繁殖对被移走了他们的蛋，而另一半被允许保留他们的蛋和羽翼丰满的小鸡。然后对雄性进行重新测试，以确定它们现在更喜欢哪种颜色的筑巢材料。雄性对筑巢材料的两种颜色中的一种有强烈的偏好。用它们喜欢的筑巢材料颜色筑巢的雄性在筑巢后继续喜欢这种颜色，不管它们在这个巢穴中繁殖成功与否。然而，在那些用自己不喜欢的颜色筑巢的雄鸟中，那些用这种颜色养育并羽翼丰满的雏鸟随后会选择这种颜色的材料筑巢，而那些繁殖失败的雄鸟则不会。因此，繁殖经验可以影响斑胸草雀筑巢材料的选择。(C) 2011动物行为研究协会。Elsevier Ltd.出版。版权所有。
Whether learning plays a role in nest building in birds is largely unknown. Here we investigated whether the colour of nest materials used to build a first nest affected the subsequent nest material choices made by male zebra finches when building a second nest. Males were tested for their preference for green or brown nest material and then were provided with either their preferred or nonpreferred colour with which to build their first nest. The success of this nesting attempt was manipulated such that half of the breeding pairs had their eggs removed, while the other half were allowed to keep their eggs and fledge chicks. Males were then retested to determine which colour of nest material they now preferred. Males had strong initial preferences for one or other of the two colours of nest material. Males that built a nest with their preferred colour of nest material continued to prefer that colour after nesting, regardless of their breeding success in that nest. However, of the males that built a nest with material of their nonpreferred colour, those that raised and fledged chicks from it subsequently preferred that colour of material for their second nest, while males that suffered a failed breeding attempt did not. Thus breeding experience can influence decisions relating to nest material choice in nest construction in the zebra finch. (C) 2011 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.