Vocally mediated consensus decisions govern mass departures from jackdaw roosts
dc.contributor.author | Dibnah, AJ | |
dc.contributor.author | Herbert-Read, JE | |
dc.contributor.author | Boogert, NJ | |
dc.contributor.author | McIvor, GE | |
dc.contributor.author | Jolles, JW | |
dc.contributor.author | Thornton, A | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-05-27T13:02:12Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-05-23 | |
dc.date.updated | 2022-05-27T12:47:16Z | |
dc.description.abstract | In the early morning, large groups of up to hundreds or even thousands of roosting birds, sometimes comprising the entire roost population, often take off together in sudden mass departures. These departures commonly occur in low-light conditions and structurally complex habitats where access to visual cues is likely to be restricted. Roosting birds are often highly vocal, leading us to hypothesise that vocalisations, which can propagate over large distances, could provide a means of enabling individuals to agree on when to depart - that is to establish a consensus1 - and thus coordinate the timing of mass movements. Investigations of the role of acoustic signals in coordinating collective decisions have been limited to honeybees2 and relatively small vertebrate groups (<50 individuals)3-5 and have rarely included experimental validation2,3. Here, by combining field recordings with a large-scale experimental manipulation, we show that jackdaws (Corvus monedula) use vocalisations to coordinate mass departures from winter roosts. This provides empirical evidence for vocally-mediated consensus decision-making in large vertebrate groups. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Human Frontier Science Program | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Swedish Research Council | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Royal Society | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Whitten Lectureship in Marine Biology | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Spanish Program for Centres of Excellence | en_GB |
dc.format.extent | R455-R456 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 32, No. 10, pp. R455-R456 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.04.032 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | RG0049/2017 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 2018–04076 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | DH140080 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/129742 | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0002-1607-2047 (Thornton, Alex) | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35609539 | en_GB |
dc.rights.embargoreason | Under embargo until 23 May 2023 in compliance with publisher policy | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2022 Elsevier Inc.. This version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | en_GB |
dc.subject | Animals | en_GB |
dc.subject | Birds | en_GB |
dc.subject | Consensus | en_GB |
dc.subject | Crows | en_GB |
dc.subject | Ecosystem | en_GB |
dc.subject | Humans | en_GB |
dc.title | Vocally mediated consensus decisions govern mass departures from jackdaw roosts | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2022-05-27T13:02:12Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0960-9822 | |
exeter.place-of-publication | England | |
dc.description | This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Elsevier via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1879-0445 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Current Biology | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | en_GB |
rioxxterms.version | AM | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2022-05-23 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2022-05-27T12:54:27Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | AM | |
refterms.panel | A | en_GB |
refterms.dateFirstOnline | 2022-05-23 |
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