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SUBMITTER: Jankowiak L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5785962 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jankowiak Łukasz Ł Tryjanowski Piotr P Hetmański Tomasz T Skórka Piotr P Skórka Piotr P
Scientific reports 20180126 1
Same-sex sexual behaviour has been noted among social animals. However, because of the large number of observations necessary, data from controlled experiments are lacking. In this study, we performed experiments to evaluate the effects of male and female removal in colonies of the feral pigeon (Columba livia f. urbana). After the experimental removal of males, five long-lasting female-female pairs occurred. We found that those pairs could successfully raise offspring in a manner comparable to f ...[more]