{"id":24069,"date":"2025-05-07T22:18:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T22:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/these-beautiful-birds-form-something-like-lasting-friendships\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T22:18:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T22:18:41","slug":"these-beautiful-birds-form-something-like-lasting-friendships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/these-beautiful-birds-form-something-like-lasting-friendships\/","title":{"rendered":"These Beautiful Birds Form Something Like Lasting Friendships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">True friends, most people would agree, are there for each other. Sometimes that means offering emotional support. Sometimes it means helping each other move. And if you\u2019re a superb starling \u2014 a flamboyant, chattering songbird native to the African savanna \u2014 it means stuffing bugs down the throats of your friends\u2019 offspring, secure in the expectation that they\u2019ll eventually do the same for yours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Scientists have long known that social animals usually put blood relatives first. But for a study published <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-025-01374-8\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Wednesday in the journal Nature<\/a>, researchers crunched two decades of field data to show that unrelated members of a superb starling flock often help each other raise chicks, trading assistance to one another over years in a behavior that was not previously known.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe think that these reciprocal helping relationships are a way to build ties,\u201d said Dustin Rubenstein, a professor of ecology at Columbia University and an author of the paper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Superb starlings are distinctive among animals that breed cooperatively, said Alexis Earl, a biologist at Cornell University and an author of the paper. Their flocks mix family groups with immigrants from other groups. New parents rely on up to 16 helpers, which bring chicks extra food and help run off predators.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dr. Rubenstein\u2019s lab has maintained a 20-year field study of the species that included 40 breeding seasons. It has recorded thousands of interactions between hundreds of the chattering birds and collected DNA to examine their genetic relationships. When Dr. Earl, then a graduate student in the lab, began crunching the data, she and her colleagues weren\u2019t shocked to see that birds largely helped relatives, the way an aunt or uncle may swoop in to babysit and give parents a break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But to their surprise, they found that starlings also helped nonrelatives, including when they might have helped family instead. Birds new to the flock helped those born within it, and vice versa. And because superb starlings often switch between breeding and helping roles, the team found that individual birds that helped nonrelatives one breeding season later had their good deeds repaid, sometimes repeatedly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe starlings are consistently investing in the same preferred social partners over their lives,\u201d Dr. Earl said. \u201cTo me, that sounds like friendship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The idea that animals might establish friendships with unrelated individuals has provoked controversy among scientists, said Gerald Carter, an animal behaviorist at Princeton University and an author on the paper. However, a growing body of research has led scientists to accept that long-term reciprocal relationships exist among primates, elephants, crows and whales. There are also vampire bats <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/03\/19\/science\/vampire-bats-blood.html\" title=\"\">that share blood meals with unrelated, hungry colony members<\/a>, and unrelated, male Lance-tailed manakins serve as <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/1354-male-birds-wingman-win-girl.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cwingmen\u201d for each other<\/a> to gain female attention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But long-term relationships can be difficult to detect, Dr. Rubenstein said. The team needed 27 seasons\u2019 worth of data to pick up hints of reciprocity in the starlings. He thinks they\u2019re still underestimating it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Such reciprocal helping relationships are probably more important than the lab\u2019s data shows, Dr. Rubenstein said. \u201cAnd so only with a lot of long-term data can you get at that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The study makes a convincing case, said Jorg Massen, a behavioral ecologist at Utrecht University in the Netherlands who was not involved in the paper. One next step would be to work out how these long-term relationships are maintained day to day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIs it just based on the reproductive help, or is it accompanied by other behavioral traits?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The behavior of superb starlings also suggests that sustaining these sorts of relationships with unrelated fellows benefits everybody. \u201cBirds that live in larger groups tend to live longer, and they tend to reproduce more offspring over their lifetime,\u201d Dr. Rubenstein said. In the harsh and unpredictable African savanna, it\u2019s all hands on deck to raise young. And the addition of immigrant birds is required to make the groups more resilient.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It has parallels with the evolutionary trajectory of humans \u2014 a lineage of sociable, cooperatively breeding <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/27\/science\/chimpanzees-savanna-evolution.html\" title=\"\">apes also forged on the savanna<\/a>, Dr. Rubenstein said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And today, as many experts worry about <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/09\/06\/health\/lonliness-aging-health-effects.html\" title=\"\">an epidemic of human loneliness<\/a>, there could be value in heeding lessons from the superb starling. In other words, strong relationships are often built from providing help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But maybe don\u2019t offer to stuff bugs down the mouths of your friends\u2019 kids. 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