No reproductive fitness benefits of dear enemy behaviour in a territorial songbird

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dc.contributor.authorReichert, Michael S.
dc.contributor.authorCrane, Jodie M. S.
dc.contributor.authorDavidson, Gabrielle L.
dc.contributor.authorDillane, Eileen
dc.contributor.authorKulahci, Ipek G.
dc.contributor.authorO'Neill, James
dc.contributor.authorvan Oers, Kees
dc.contributor.authorSexton, Ciara
dc.contributor.authorQuinn, John L.
dc.contributor.funderHorizon 2020en
dc.contributor.funderScience Foundation Irelanden
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-07T13:52:34Z
dc.date.available2022-07-07T13:52:34Z
dc.date.issued2022-06-29
dc.date.updated2022-07-07T13:41:31Z
dc.description.abstractTerritorial animals often respond less aggressively to neighbours than strangers. This ‘dear enemy’ effect is hypothesized to be adaptive by reducing unnecessary aggressive interactions with non-threatening individuals. A key prediction of this hypothesis, that individual fitness will be affected by variation in the speed and the extent to which individuals reduce their aggression towards neighbours relative to strangers, has never been tested. We used a series of song playbacks to measure the change in response of male great tits to a simulated establishment of a neighbour on an adjacent territory during early stages of breeding, as an assay of individuals’ tendencies to form dear enemy relationships. Males reduced their approach to the speaker and sang fewer songs on later playback repetitions. However, only some males exhibited dear enemy behaviour by responding more strongly to a subsequent stranger playback, and when the playback procedure was repeated on a subset of males, there was some indication for consistent differences among individuals in the expression of dear enemy behaviour. We monitored nests and analysed offspring paternity to determine male reproductive success. Individuals that exhibited dear enemy behaviour towards the simulated neighbour did not suffer any costs associated with loss of paternity, but there was also no evidence of reproductive benefits, and no net effect on reproductive fitness. The general ability to discriminate between neighbours and strangers is likely adaptive, but benefits are probably difficult to detect because of the indirect link between individual variation in dear enemy behaviour and reproductive fitness and because of the complex range of mechanisms affecting relations with territorial neighbours.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionAccepted Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.articleid90en
dc.identifier.citationReichert, M. S., Crane, J. M. S., Davidson, G. L., Dillane, E., Kulahci, I. G., O'Neill, J., van Oers, K., Sexton, C. and Quinn, J. L. (2022) 'No reproductive fitness benefits of dear enemy behaviour in a territorial songbird', Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 76(7), 90 (20pp). doi: 10.1007/s00265-022-03199-1en
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s00265-022-03199-1en
dc.identifier.eissn1432-0762
dc.identifier.endpage20en
dc.identifier.issn0340-5443
dc.identifier.issued7en
dc.identifier.journaltitleBehavioral Ecology and Sociobiologyen
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/13348
dc.identifier.volume76en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSpringer Nature Switzerland AGen
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7::SP2::ERC/617509/EU/The evolutionary ecology of cognition across a heterogeneous landscape/EVOLECOCOGen
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/SFI/SFI ERC Support Programme/14/ERC/B3118/IE/SFI ERC Support - John Quinn/en
dc.rights© 2022, the Authors, under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-022-03199-1en
dc.subjectCognitionen
dc.subjectGreat titen
dc.subjectHabituationen
dc.subjectIndividual recognitionen
dc.subjectPlaybacken
dc.subjectTerritorial behaviouren
dc.titleNo reproductive fitness benefits of dear enemy behaviour in a territorial songbirden
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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