Socialist bird collective

• Autores: Rowan Hooper
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2908, 2013, págs. 24-25
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Hooper features a photograph of a socialist bird by Dillon Marsh. Sociable weavers (Philetairus socius) build huge communal nests--multistorey apartment complexes--from sticks and grass. The structures last for decades, sometimes over 100 years. Multiple families live together and even help raise each others young; one could call them socialist weavers, though that might bring to mind a collective of 19th-century Lancashire textile workers.