Another Babysitting Bird (IMAGE)

Washington University in St. Louis

Another Babysitting Bird

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Superb starlings are also cooperative breeders but they live in semiarid areas with undependable rainfall, a climate that is thought to have pushed them toward greater cooperation as a way of coping with variability.

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Dennis Irrgang

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