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8 Ways To Find The Best Web Design Agencies For Your…Surveys of several sites, including Nepal’s Chitwan National Park, show that the lesser necklaced laughingthrush may be physically mimicking a larger species, the greater necklaced laughingthrush, for benefit.
KATHMANDU — On an early spring morning in the western forests of Chitwan National Park in Nepal, a cacophony of birdsongs resonates through the air, mingling with the rustling of dried leaves and cries of other animals in the distance. A new study looking at the interactions between the two species, which are found across South and East Asia, suggests that the smaller of the laughingthrushes may have adopted mimicry of the bigger bird as an evolutionary strategy to potentially placate the greater laughingthrush when it’s around, gain some level of protection against predators, and get better access to food by foraging near the larger bird.
As part of the new study, Gosai and his colleagues looked at both museum specimens and live birds in the field. For the former, they took photos and measurements of the specimens, focusing in particular on the color and size of the necklace pattern on the breast, and determined whether the specimens came from areas where both species occurred together or separately depending on where they’d been collected from.
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