{"id":1816,"date":"2014-06-03T19:20:52","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T00:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=1816"},"modified":"2014-06-03T13:45:38","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T18:45:38","slug":"it-takes-a-community-to-raise-a-healthy-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/it-takes-a-community-to-raise-a-healthy-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"It takes a community to raise a healthy bird<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1805\" style=\"width: 514px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pngbase643f7502ee06dc6399.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1805\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1805\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pngbase643f7502ee06dc6399.png\" alt=\"A cactus wren, native to the southwestern United States, is one of the few bird species that practice cooperative breeding. New research shows that such species have higher year-on-year survival. (Photo credit: Linda Tanner, via flickr.com)\" width=\"504\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pngbase643f7502ee06dc6399.png 504w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pngbase643f7502ee06dc6399-300x180.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1805\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A cactus wren, native to the southwestern United States, is one of the few bird species that practice cooperative breeding. New research shows that such species have higher year-on-year survival. (Photo credit: Linda Tanner, via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/goingslo\/6408102629\/\">flickr.com<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A new study shows that birds that cooperate to raise their young have better year-on-year survival than those that don\u2019t. In certain bird species &#8211; found mostly in Australasia or Africa &#8211; children from the previous year and from other parents help raise the newborns. A careful review of the research on this rare phenomenon shows that it increases survival but surprisingly has no effect on the number of eggs laid each year. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The finding confirms a 20-year-old hypothesis that has at times been very controversial.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span>Original research paper<\/span><\/span>\u00a0published in the\u00a0<em>Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>June 3, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Guy Beauchamp, Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al, Quebec<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study shows that birds that cooperate to raise their young have better year-on-year survival than those that don\u2019t. In certain bird species &#8211; found mostly in Australasia or Africa &#8211; children from the previous year and from other parents help raise the newborns. A careful review of the research on this rare phenomenon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[39,113,114,917,849,1290,1699],"class_list":["post-1816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-animal-behaviour","tag-biology","tag-birds","tag-evolution","tag-quebec-en","tag-reproduction","tag-survival"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pngbase643f7502ee06dc6399.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-ti","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1817,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions\/1817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}