Social Plasticity in the Acorn Woodpecker
- 22 December 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 202 (4374), 1298-1300
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.202.4374.1298
Abstract
Acorn woodpeckers (Melanerpes formicivorus) in southeastern Arizona exhibited two different types of social organization: one of highly cooperative and resident groups and another of birds that migrated and formed only temporary male-female pairs during reproduction. The occurrence of both patterns in the same population indicates a high degree of social flexibility in this species.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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