Collaborative research headed by biologists at Monash University has found that the apparently-altruistic efforts of purple-crowned fairy wrens are actually motivated by selfish interest. Fairy-wrens practise co-operative breeding, where birds help to raise others’ offspring, but the research reveals adult wrens often help to raise other chicks in order to secure further breeding territory later on.
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