Researchers find genetic stability in a long-term Panamanian hybrid zone of manakins
We often think of species as separate and distinct, but sometimes they can interbreed and create hybrids. When this happens ...
University of Wyoming3 年
The development of coordinated singing in cooperatively displaying long-tailed manakins.
Trainer, J.M., D.B. McDonald, and W.A. Learn. 2002. Behavioral Ecology 13: 65-69. Abstract: Long-tailed manakins (Chiroxiphia linearis) have a puzzling social system in which teams of two males ...
University of Wyoming3 年
Delayed plumage maturation and orderly queues for status: a manakin mannequin experiment
McDonald, D.B. 1993. Ethol. 94: 31-45. Lek-mating male long-tailed manakins (Chiroxiphia linearis) move through three distinct, unambiguously age-specific, predefinitive (subadult) plumages, and do ...