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Found a neat paper about #mobbing behavior in passerine #birds in Brazil that I'll touch on in this summer's #AnimalBehaviorSummer2020 class

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Authors used playback recordings of Ferruginous Pygmy Owl's (Glaucidium brasilianum) to elicit mobbing behavior & looked for factors that could explain which species of #birds were #mobbing

Reminded me of @RosemaryMosco 's Northern Pygmy Owl cartoon😂 (same genus of bird) Image
Spoilers from the Santana de Lima et al. (2018) paper (linked above)
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Body mass & trophic guild (along with phylogenetic clade) were the best predictors of #mobbing behaviors in #birds in dry forests in Brazil
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