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Thorogood, R; Kokko, H; Mappes, J

Foraging behaviour of Parus major held in temporary captivity

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https://doi.org/10.5285/db55406b-c9a1-4a9e-88c2-2abbcb4bcad3
The data set describes foraging decisions by great tits (Parus major), held in temporary captivity. Data were collected from birds caught from forest at the University of Jyväskylä Research Station, Konnevesi (62°37.7'N 026°17'E), Finland, and were collected during the winter of 2013-2014. Birds were presented with (1) two different coloured plastic cups, or (2) two different artificial prey (almond pieces inside a paper packet and printed with a black and white symbol). One symbol was made bitter-tasting by soaking the almond piece in chloroquine, and learning behaviour was recorded over three trials. Half of the birds in both experiments were presented videos of a demonstrator great tit, to provide social information about prey characteristics and unpalatability. Data were collected to test hypotheses about the evolutionary consequences of social information use by predators as part of a NERC-funded Independent Research Fellowship.
Publication date: 2017-10-20
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Comma-separated values (CSV)

Spatial information

Study area
Spatial representation type
Tabular (text)
Spatial reference system
WGS 84

Temporal information

Temporal extent
2013-10-17    to    2014-01-24

Provenance & quality

Data on foraging decisions of wild great tits (Paris major), held in captivity temporarily, were collected between 17th October 2013 - 24th January 2014 in central Finland. Data were generated during two procedures, with 14 out of 56 birds used to generate both parts of the dataset. Half of the birds were presented with video playback before the foraging test to provide social information about food options.

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This dataset is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence

Cite this dataset as:
Thorogood, R; Kokko, H; Mappes, J (2017). Foraging behaviour of Parus major held in temporary captivity. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/db55406b-c9a1-4a9e-88c2-2abbcb4bcad3

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Citations

Thorogood, R., Kokko, H., & Mappes, J. (2017). Social transmission of avoidance among predators facilitates the spread of novel prey. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2(2), 254–261. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0418-x
Thorogood, R., Kokko, H. & Mappes, J. (2018) Social transmission of avoidance among predators facilitates the spread of novel prey. Springer Science and Business Media LLC https://doi.org/10.17863/cam.20713

Correspondence/contact details

Dr. Rose Thorogood
University of Cambridge
 rt303@cam.ac.uk

Authors

Thorogood, R
University of Cambridge
Kokko, H
University of Zurich
Mappes, J
University of Jyväskylä

Other contacts

Rights holder
University of Cambridge
Custodian
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
 info@eidc.ac.uk
Publisher
NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
 info@eidc.ac.uk

Additional metadata

Topic categories
biota
INSPIRE theme
Environmental Monitoring Facilities
Keywords
animal behaviour , Animal behaviour , aposematism , bird , evolution , Evolutionary ecology , foraging , Great tit , Konnevesi , Parus major , prey defence , Wild bird
Funding
Natural Environment Research Council Award: NE/K00929X/1
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19 April 2024 09:28