EggReject: EggReject

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EggReject

Description

Experiment to evaluate differential responses to nest parasitism for bold and shy individuals

Usage

EggReject

Format

A data frame with 57 rows and 7 variables:

nest.ID

character nest id

site

character site either Dongzhai, Henan or Zuojia, Jilin

clutch.size

integer number of eggs in the clutch

exp.date

double indicates the date when a painted blue white-rumped munia egg was added to the nest

Julian.date

integer Julian date corresponding to exp.date

Result

character response of female tits to the addition of the painted blue white-rumped munia egg（“rejected” if the egg was rejected and “not” if the egg was accepted)

Behavioral.Type

character response of incubating female tits to the approaching humans (“shy” individuals left the nest whereas "bold" individuals did not)

Source

Shen, C., Yu, J., Yin, D., Liu, Q., Wang, H., & Liang, W. (2023). Bold–shy continuum does not account for egg rejection behaviour in the Japanese tit. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 140(1), 33-40.

Shen, Chao et al. (2023). Data for: Shy-boldness cannot predict egg rejection in the Japanese tit Dataset. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.vt4b8gtx4

Data names modified from the original form contained on Dryad via the following link: https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.vt4b8gtx4

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