How do the small birds in the street know how not to die— that whatever they gather, hunger for, is never enough to keep them in the road when our wheels bear down upon them?
Researchers find that songbirds sometimes get 'divorced'
"I think more and more we are really understanding the extent to which social behavior influences animals' lives," says Adelaide Abraham, a PhD student at the University of Oxford and first author of the study. "It's hugely, hugely important."
Ridley's new book explores the extravagant courtship of birds through sexual selection, reviving Darwin's idea that evolution charms mates, not just competes.