Supernormal Stimulus Begging Calls of Brood‐Parasitic Nestlings Depress the Parental Care in an Uncommon Host [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionDuring the nestling period, brood‐parasitic birds stimulate host parents to provide food through complex visual and auditory signals, including emitting supernormal stimuli in the form of begging calls to increase the feeding frequency.
Li Tian +8 more
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Adult auditory brain responses to nestling begging calls in seasonal songbirds: an fMRI study in non-parenting male and female starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) [PDF]
Frontiers in Behavioral NeuroscienceThe present study aims to investigate whether begging calls elicit specific auditory responses in non-parenting birds, whether these responses are influenced by the hormonal status of the bird, and whether they reflect biparental care for offspring in ...
Nicholas Vidas-Guscic +15 more
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BEGGING – HISTORICAL OUTLINE, DETERMINANTS, SELECTED ASPECTS OF LEGISLATION [PDF]
Probacja, 2017 The article presents the social and legal aspects of begging in relation to history and the present day. In the text, a short analysis of the phenomenon of begging at the turn of the century was made.
Kazimiera Król
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Parental influence on begging call structure in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata): evidence of early vocal plasticity [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2015 Begging calls are signals of need used by young birds to elicit care from adults. Different theoretical frameworks have been proposed to understand this parent–offspring communication. But relationships between parental response and begging intensity, or
Avelyne S. Villain +3 more
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Benefits of extra begging fail to compensate for immunological costs in southern shrike (Lanius meridionalis) nestlings. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Theoretical models aimed at explaining the evolution of honest, informative begging signals employed by nestling birds to solicit food from their parents, require that dishonest signalers incur a net viability cost in order to prevent runaway escalation ...
Gregorio Moreno-Rueda, Tomás Redondo
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Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens, 2022 Visitor effect studies have been of keen interest for decades, but there have been only anecdotal opportunities to investigate the impact of the prolonged absence of visitors on animal welfare in zoos.
Aleksei A. Podturkin
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SAGE Open, 2022 Despite various efforts to achieve women’s empowerment, many women in developing nations still face desperate situations. In countries where social welfare services for the poor do not exist, mothers are expected to support their children by any means ...
Ashenafi Hagos Baynesagn +1 more
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Variable food begging calls are harbingers of vocal learning. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2009 Vocal learning has evolved in only a few groups of mammals and birds. The developmental and evolutionary origins of vocal learning remain unclear. The imitation of a memorized sound is a clear example of vocal learning, but is that when vocal learning ...
Wan-chun Liu +2 more
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HADITS INFORMATION ABOUT HELPING (COMPLETING) WITH SOMETHING HAPPENED IN THE SOCIETY
International Journal of Islamic Khazanah, 2020 Today, begging and begging for something that is considered normal is mainly used as a livelihood to meet their needs. This phenomenon continues to develop and has tools that can support its development.
Jagat Rayana
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Preferential Begging Responses of Shiny Cowbirds to the Conspecific Chatter Call
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Avian brood parasites lay their eggs into the nests of other species, which incubate them and raise the chicks until their independence. Despite living their early weeks of life surrounded by heterospecifics, young brood parasites have the ability to ...
Ignacio Crudele +2 more
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