Nest sanitation elicits egg discrimination in cuckoo hosts

Verfasser / Beitragende:
[Canchao Yang, Min Chen, Longwu Wang, Wei Liang, Anders Møller]
Ort, Verlag, Jahr:
2015
Enthalten in:
Animal Cognition, 18/6(2015-11-01), 1373-1377
Format:
Artikel (online)
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520 3 |a Nest sanitation is a nearly universal behavior in birds, while egg discrimination is a more specific adaptation that has evolved to counter brood parasitism. These two behaviors are closely related with nest sanitation being the ancestral behavior, and it has been hypothesized to constitute a preadaptation for egg discrimination. However, previous studies found little evidence to support this hypothesis. Here, we conducted an empirical test of the association between nest sanitation and egg discrimination in the barn swallow (Hirundo rustica) by inserting a single non-mimetic model egg or a non-mimetic model egg plus half a peanut shell into host nests. Compared to the rejection rate of single model eggs, barn swallows significantly increased egg rejection frequency if a half peanut shell was simultaneously introduced. Our result for the first time shows the impact of nest sanitation on egg discrimination and demonstrates that nest sanitation can elicit egg discrimination in hosts of brood parasites. This study provided evidence for nest sanitation being a preadaptation to egg discrimination by facilitating egg rejection, thereby significantly advancing our understanding of avian cognition of foreign objects. Furthermore, we suggest that egg discrimination behavior in many accepters and intermediate rejecters may be lost or diluted. Such egg discrimination can be elicited and restored after nest sanitation, implying a sensitive and rapid phenotypic response to increased risk of parasitism. Our study offers a novel perspective for investigating the role of so-called intermediate rejecter individuals or species in the long-term coevolutionary cycle between brood parasites and their hosts. 
540 |a Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2015 
690 7 |a Egg rejection  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Evolutionary lag  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Hirundo rustica  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Intermediate rejecter  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Nest cleaning  |2 nationallicence 
700 1 |a Yang  |D Canchao  |u Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Tropical Plant and Animal Ecology, College of Life Sciences, Hainan Normal University, Haikou 571158, China  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Chen  |D Min  |u Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Tropical Plant and Animal Ecology, College of Life Sciences, Hainan Normal University, Haikou 571158, China  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Wang  |D Longwu  |u College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Liang  |D Wei  |u Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Tropical Plant and Animal Ecology, College of Life Sciences, Hainan Normal University, Haikou 571158, China  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Møller  |D Anders  |u Laboratoire d'Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution, CNRS UMR 8079, Université Paris-Sud, Bâtiment 362, 91405, Orsay Cedex, France  |4 aut 
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950 |B NATIONALLICENCE  |P 700  |E 1-  |a Chen  |D Min  |u Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Tropical Plant and Animal Ecology, College of Life Sciences, Hainan Normal University, Haikou 571158, China  |4 aut 
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950 |B NATIONALLICENCE  |P 700  |E 1-  |a Liang  |D Wei  |u Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Tropical Plant and Animal Ecology, College of Life Sciences, Hainan Normal University, Haikou 571158, China  |4 aut 
950 |B NATIONALLICENCE  |P 700  |E 1-  |a Møller  |D Anders  |u Laboratoire d'Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution, CNRS UMR 8079, Université Paris-Sud, Bâtiment 362, 91405, Orsay Cedex, France  |4 aut 
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