A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia.

ABSTRACT: Neophobia, or aversion to novelty, is important for adaptability and survival as it influences the ways in which animals navigate risk and interact with their environments. Across individuals, species and other taxonomic levels, neophobia is known to vary considerably, but our understanding of the wider ecological drivers of neophobia is hampered by a lack of comparative multispecies studies using standardized methods. Here, we utilized the ManyBirds Project, a Big Team Science large-scale collaborative open science framework, to pool efforts and resources of 129 collaborators at 77 institutions from 24 countries worldwide across six continents. We examined both difference scores (between novel object test and control conditions) and raw data of latency to touch familiar food in the presen

SUBMITTER: ManyBirds Project 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12520376 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature