April 2014: David Sherry and marsh tits, zebra stripes, and Arabian babblers

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The Behavioural Ecology and Evolution Podcast (the Beepcast)

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April 2014: David Sherry and marsh tits, zebra stripes, and Arabian babblers

The Behavioural Ecology and Evolution Podcast (the Beepcast)

11 years ago

April 2014: David Sherry and marsh tits, zebra stripes, and Arabian babblers

David Sherry from the Western University in Canada tells me what inspired him to study the hoarding behavior of birds, in the Scientific Spark. Oded Keynan explains the benefits to having offspring stick around for an extended period of time. I also find out why zebras have stripes, and why Rudyard Kipling was wrong!

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Zebras and their stripes

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Quicklinks:
Oded Keynan's webpage
Tim Caro's webpage
Tim's zebra paper in Nature communications
David Sherry's webpage