Date of Award
Spring 5-19-2016
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Psychology
First Advisor
Mark E. Hauber
Second Advisor
David Lahti
Academic Program Adviser
Mark Hauber
Abstract
Nest sanitation, a behavior similar in motor pattern to egg ejection, has been proposed repeatedly as a potential pre-adaptation to foreign egg ejection in avian brood parasites hosts. We found no support for the sanitation hypothesis--therefore we suggest egg ejection may have evolved independently of sanitation.
Recommended Citation
Luro, Alec B., "Investigating the nest sanitation hypothesis in a rejecter species: is sanitation a proximate link, pre-adaptation, or by-product of egg ejection?" (2016). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/88