{"id":3844,"date":"2015-02-02T15:03:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T20:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3844"},"modified":"2015-02-02T12:13:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T17:13:43","slug":"formation-flying-ibises-play-it-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/formation-flying-ibises-play-it-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Formation flying ibises play it fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3845\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Flight-above-the-adriatc-sea-AG-Schmalstieg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3845\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3845\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Flight-above-the-adriatc-sea-AG-Schmalstieg-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The researchers believe that flying in a V-formation evolved as a cooperative behaviour to minimize the risks of long migratory journeys. (Photo credit: Image courtesy of Johannes Fritz)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Flight-above-the-adriatc-sea-AG-Schmalstieg-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Flight-above-the-adriatc-sea-AG-Schmalstieg-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3845\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The researchers believe that flying in a \u00a0&#8220;v&#8221; formation evolved as a cooperative behaviour to minimize the risks of long migratory journeys. (Photo credit: Image courtesy of Johannes Fritz)<\/p><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Who will fly in front? When migrating, northern bald ibises fly in a &#8216;v&#8217; formation and take turns with the toughest position at the front of the &#8216;v&#8217;, so they all have a chance to relax and enjoy riding the slipstream, a new study shows. The evidence gathered is the first to show cooperative\u00a0reciprocal behaviour in birds.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Researchers studied 14 juvenile birds that were fostered by humans and were taught a new migration route by following a powered parachute from Austria to Italy.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The birds cooperated by taking turns and matching exactly the times they spent in the advantageous trailing position and in the disadvantageous front position, even though they were not born and raised together.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Videos and additional photos available upon request.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span>\u00a0published in <em>PNAS<\/em>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>February 2<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Bernhard Voelkl, University of Oxford, United Kingdom<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who will fly in front? When migrating, northern bald ibises fly in a &#8216;v&#8217; formation and take turns with the toughest position at the front of the &#8216;v&#8217;, so they all have a chance to relax and enjoy riding the slipstream, a new study shows. The evidence gathered is the first to show cooperative\u00a0reciprocal behaviour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3845,"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":[114,2364,917,1444],"class_list":["post-3844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-birds","tag-cooperation","tag-evolution","tag-migration"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Flight-above-the-adriatc-sea-AG-Schmalstieg.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-100","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3844","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=3844"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3853,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3844\/revisions\/3853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}