When you’re looking for a table in a crowded cafeteria, you probably give wide berth to the family that sounds like it’s sharing a big dish of whooping cough. Well, not if you’re a house finch, particularly a male. Because a study in the journal Biology Letters [by Karen M. Bouwman and Dana M. Hawley at Virginia Tech; see http://bit.ly/afHGw7 ] shows that male finches actually prefer feeding near males who are visibly ill. [More]
Finches Seek Out Sick Dining Companions
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