Large breasts sometimes break, bird researchers find

We are talking about birds.

Big breasts are small yellowish singers common to Europe. The pairs of titles are known to be monogamous during the breeding season, separating after having fully increased their offspring. But new research suggests that this “divorce of chickadees” could be the product of complex social relations formed during and after the breeding season.

Posted on July 30 in Acts of the Royal Society BThe newspaper reports that not all pairs of titles separate at the end of the summer at the end of the breeding season. An important part of Tit couples remains together throughout winter, hitting it again when spring arrives. Other breasts are starting to drift at the end of summer and eventually separate at different times in fall and winter. In other words, the status of dating titles is complicated and for reasons which are not yet entirely clear.

“Our results show that relations with birds are far from static,” said Adelaide Daisy Abraham, principal of the study and behavioral ecologist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, in a statement. “Divorce seems to be a socially motivated process, which takes place over time.”

For the study, Abraham and his colleagues followed the large individual breasts found in the woods near Oxford. These breasts had a small radio label attached to them, alerting the team whenever the birds visited one of the many feeders created by the researchers. Over a three -year period, researchers have collected major social data on Tit by checking which breasts to sit on each other and how often.

Surprisingly, they discovered that the combination of pairs of titles was not as random or confined to proximity as it was believed before. Although early coupling can be a product of which is nearby, if these Tit couples remain together can depend more on “social decision -making” throughout the season, supposed the newspaper. The researchers also found that signs of divorce of the chickadee had emerged at the end of the summer, becoming more important in winter.

“These divorced birds, they, from the start, already do not associate as much (in the feeders) as the faithful birds,” said Abraham NPR. “It only increases over the winter.”

The newspaper, however, did not give any definitive explanation to what exactly removed couples from the chickadee – although, to be fair, the birds were not exactly to come on their personal life. But the newspaper raises certain questions, such as divorced birds which find a new partner so successful to mate? Do they present different parental models? Are birds influenced by better coupling choices? And are some birds pushed by competition? Fortunately, researchers seem to ask similar questions, concluding that future studies should explore these causal relationships.

“Following these individual birds through the seasons and for many years allows us to see how relations are formed and decompose in the wild in a way that short-term studies would not do it,” said Josh Firth, principal author and behavioral ecologist at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom, in the same declaration.

“There is actually much more in these herds of birds by the window than you think,” added Abraham.

When we think of non -human intelligence, we are often more attracted to greater subjects, such as extraterrestrial life. But as the new study shows, there is still a lot to discover the creatures here on Earth which are just as important and delicious – this being an excellent example.