A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia

Rachael Miller; Vedrana Šlipogor; Kai Caspar; Jimena Lois-Milevicich; Carl Soulsbury; Stephan Reber; Claudia Mettke-Hofmann; Megan Lambert; Benjamin Ashton; Alice Auersperg; Melissa Bateson; Solenne Belle; Boris Bilčík; Laura Biondi; Francesco Bonadonna; Desiree Brucks; Michael Butler; Samuel Caro; Marion Charrier; Tiffany Chatelin; Johnathan Ching; Nicola Clayton; Benjamin Cluver; Ella Cochran; Francesca Cornero; Emily Danby; Samara Danel; Martina Darwich; James Davies; Alicia de la Colina; Dominik Fischer; Ondřej Fišer; Florencia Foitzick; Edward Galluccio; Clara Garcia-Co; Elias Garcia-Pelegrin; Isabelle George; Kai-Philipp Gladow; Raúl Gómez; Anna Grewer; Katie Grice; Lauren Guillette; Devon Hallihan; Katie Harrington; Frauke Heer; Chloe Henry; Vladimira Hodova; Marisa Hoeschele; Cécilia Houdelier; Paula Ibáñez de Aldecoa; Oluwaseun Serah Iyasere; Yuka Kanemitsu; Mina Khodadadi; Duc Khong; Melanie Kimball; Ariana Klappert; Lucy Koch; Uta König von Borstel; Lubor Košt'Ál; Anastasia Krasheninnikova; Lubica Kubikova; Connor Lambert; Daan Laméris; Courtenay Lampert; Oceane Larousse; Christine Lattin; Zhongqiu Li; Michael Lindenmeier; Delia Lister; Julia Mackenzie; Selina Mainz; Danna Masri; Jorg Massen; Laurenz Mohr; Wendt Müller; Paul Nealen; Andreas Nieder; Aurèle Novac; Nínive Paes Cavalcante; Kristina Pascual; Carla Pascual-Guàrdia; Ayushi Patel; Katarína Pichová; Cristina Pilenga; Laurent Prétôt; John Quinn; Elena Račevska; Juan Reboreda; Sam Reynolds; Amanda Ridley; Theresa Rössler; Francisco Ruiz-Raya; Marina Salas; Beatriz Saldanha; Sebastián Santiago; Nikola Schlöglová; Gia Seatriz; Eva Serrano-Davies; Eva Shair Ali; Janja Sirovnik; Zuzana Skalná; Katie Slocombe; Masayo Soma; Tiziana Srdoc; Stefan Stanescu; Michaela Syrová; Alex Taylor; Christopher Templeton; Karlie Thompson; Sandra Trigo; Camille Troisi; Utku Urhan; Maurice Valbert; Kees van Oers; Alberto Velando; Frederick Verbruggen; Jorrit Verkleij; Alizée Vernouillet; Jonas Verspeek; Petr Veselý; Auguste von Bayern; Eline Waalders; Benjamin Whittaker; Ella Williamson; Vanessa Wilson; Michelle Winfield; Neslihan Wittek; Karen Yeung; Jade Zanutto

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A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia

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A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia

Rachael Miller, Vedrana Šlipogor, Kai Caspar, Jimena Lois-Milevicich, Carl Soulsbury, Stephan Reber, Claudia Mettke-Hofmann, Megan Lambert, Benjamin Ashton, Alice Auersperg, …

PLoS Biology, Vol.23(10)

14/10/2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003394

PMCID: PMC12520376

PMID: 41086223

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Animals

Birds

Behavior, Animal

Exploratory Behavior

Ecosystem

Phylogeny

Ecology

Neophobia, or aversion to novelty, is important for adaptability and survival as it influences the ways in which animals navigate risk and interact with their environments. Across individuals, species and other taxonomic levels, neophobia is known to vary considerably, but our understanding of the wider ecological drivers of neophobia is hampered by a lack of comparative multispecies studies using standardized methods. Here, we utilized the ManyBirds Project, a Big Team Science large-scale collaborative open science framework, to pool efforts and resources of 129 collaborators at 77 institutions from 24 countries worldwide across six continents. We examined both difference scores (between novel object test and control conditions) and raw data of latency to touch familiar food in the presence (test) and absence (control) of a novel object among 1,439 subjects from 136 bird species across 25 taxonomic orders incorporating lab, field, and zoo sites. We first demonstrated that consistent differences in neophobia existed among individuals, among species, and among other taxonomic levels in our dataset, rejecting the null hypothesis that neophobia is highly plastic at all taxonomic levels with no evidence for evolutionary divergence. We then tested for effects of ecological factors on neophobia, including diet, sociality, habitat, and range, while accounting for phylogeny. We found that (i) species with more specialist diets were more neophobic than those with more generalist diets, providing support for the Neophobia Threshold Hypothesis; (ii) migratory species were also more neophobic than nonmigratory species, which supports the Dangerous Niche Hypothesis. Our study shows that the evolution of avian neophobia has been shaped by ecological drivers and demonstrates the potential of Big Team Science to advance our understanding of animal behavior.

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Titre: A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia
Créateurs - sans rôle: Rachael Miller - Anglia Ruskin University
Vedrana Šlipogor - University of Lausanne
Kai Caspar - Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
Jimena Lois-Milevicich - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Carl Soulsbury - University of Lincoln
Stephan Reber - Lund University
Claudia Mettke-Hofmann - Liverpool John Moores University
Megan Lambert - Medical University of Vienna
Benjamin Ashton - Flinders University
Alice Auersperg
Melissa Bateson - Newcastle University
Solenne Belle - Université de Montpellier, Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive - CEFE
Boris Bilčík
Laura Biondi - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Francesco Bonadonna - Université de Montpellier, Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive - CEFE
Desiree Brucks - Giessen School of Theology
Michael Butler - Lafayette College
Samuel Caro - Université de Montpellier, Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive - CEFE
Marion Charrier - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Tiffany Chatelin - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Johnathan Ching
Nicola Clayton - University of Cambridge
Benjamin Cluver - Lafayette College
Ella Cochran - Louisiana State University
Francesca Cornero - University of Cambridge
Emily Danby - University of Cambridge
Samara Danel - Université de Montpellier, Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive - CEFE
Martina Darwich - Acoustics Research Institute
James Davies - University of Bristol
Alicia de la Colina
Dominik Fischer - Hella
Ondřej Fišer - University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice
Florencia Foitzick - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Edward Galluccio - The University of Western Australia
Clara Garcia-Co - University of Antwerp
Elias Garcia-Pelegrin - Mandai Wildlife Group
Isabelle George - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Kai-Philipp Gladow
Raúl Gómez - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Anna Grewer
Katie Grice
Lauren Guillette - University of Alberta
Devon Hallihan - Lafayette College
Katie Harrington - Medical University of Vienna
Frauke Heer - University of Wuppertal
Chloe Henry
Vladimira Hodova - Centre of Biosciences of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Marisa Hoeschele - Acoustics Research Institute
Cécilia Houdelier - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Paula Ibáñez de Aldecoa - University of Vienna
Oluwaseun Serah Iyasere - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Yuka Kanemitsu
Mina Khodadadi - Ruhr University Bochum
Duc Khong - Pacific University
Melanie Kimball - Louisiana State University
Ariana Klappert - University of Bonn
Lucy Koch - Medical University of Vienna
Uta König von Borstel
Lubor Košt'Ál
Anastasia Krasheninnikova - Max Planck Institute for Ornithology
Lubica Kubikova - Centre of Biosciences of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Connor Lambert - University of Alberta
Daan Laméris - Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp
Courtenay Lampert - Lafayette College
Oceane Larousse - Université Paris-Saclay
Christine Lattin - Louisiana State University
Zhongqiu Li - Nanjing University
Michael Lindenmeier - University of Bonn
Delia Lister
Julia Mackenzie - Anglia Ruskin University
Selina Mainz - University of Duisburg-Essen
Danna Masri - Louisiana State University
Jorg Massen
Laurenz Mohr
Wendt Müller - University of Antwerp
Paul Nealen - Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Andreas Nieder - University of Tübingen
Aurèle Novac
Nínive Paes Cavalcante - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Kristina Pascual - Newcastle University
Carla Pascual-Guàrdia - University of Neuchâtel
Ayushi Patel - Louisiana State University
Katarína Pichová - Centre of Biosciences of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Cristina Pilenga
Laurent Prétôt - Pittsburg State University
John Quinn - University College Cork
Elena Račevska
Juan Reboreda - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Sam Reynolds - Anglia Ruskin University
Amanda Ridley - The University of Western Australia
Theresa Rössler
Francisco Ruiz-Raya - Universidade de Vigo
Marina Salas - Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp
Beatriz Saldanha - Universidade do Porto
Sebastián Santiago - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Nikola Schlöglová - Medical University of Vienna
Gia Seatriz - Pacific University
Eva Serrano-Davies - Netherlands Institute of Ecology
Eva Shair Ali
Janja Sirovnik - University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Zuzana Skalná
Katie Slocombe
Masayo Soma
Tiziana Srdoc
Stefan Stanescu
Michaela Syrová
Alex Taylor
Christopher Templeton
Karlie Thompson
Sandra Trigo
Camille Troisi
Utku Urhan
Maurice Valbert
Kees van Oers
Alberto Velando
Frederick Verbruggen
Jorrit Verkleij
Alizée Vernouillet
Jonas Verspeek
Petr Veselý
Auguste von Bayern
Eline Waalders
Benjamin Whittaker
Ella Williamson
Vanessa Wilson
Michelle Winfield
Neslihan Wittek - Ruhr University Bochum
Karen Yeung - University of Alberta
Jade Zanutto - Sorbonne Université
Détails de publication: PLoS Biology, Vol.23(10)
Note de subvention: Funding listed directly supported contributions to this study through individually acquired awards: FWF START Project Y 1309 to AA, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (PIP 2022-2024 GI 11220210100521CO) to *ROG, Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada NSERC RGPIN-2019-04733, NSERC Discovery Grant Launch Supplement, University of Alberta Faculty of Science Start-up Grant to LMG, National Science Foundation IOS-2237423 to *CRL, Beca Aves Argentinas 2022 to *JLM, Research Support Development Grant, Anglia Ruskin University to *RM, Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) grant 2021-01650 to *SAR, Agencia Nacional de Promoción de la Investigación, el Desarrollo Tecnológico y la Innovación PICT 2019-00381 to JCR, National Science Foundation IOS: 2207395 to *CNT, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action fellowship ‘UrbanCog’ Project No. 101062662 under the European Union’s Horizon Europe Programme (https://marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu) to *CAT, Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) International postdoc grant (2020-00719), and DR. J.L. DOBBERKE FOUNDATION (Dobberke/2349/202115) to *UU, ERC Consolidator grant (European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, grant agreement No. 769595), and Methusalem Project 01M00221 (Ghent University) to FV, BOF postdoc fellowship (#BOF.PDO.2021.0035.01) to *AV and Mitacs Globalink Research Internship 2022 Project ID: 25251 to KLY. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The authors who received a salary from one of the funders are donated with an * above and listed below. ROG and JCR are Research Fellows of the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), from which they receive their salaries. CL received 1 month of summer salary from National Science Foundation IOS-2237423. JLM is supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from CONICET, through which she receives a stipend. RM received a salary as staff at Anglia Ruskin University. SAR received a salary from the Swedish Research Council. CNT received a salary from the National Science Foundation. CAT’s salary was paid via ERC Consolidator grant (European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, grant agreement No. 769595). AV received a salary through a BOF postdoc fellowship (#BOF.PDO.2021.0035.01) from the University of Ghent. UU received as salary from the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) International postdoc grant (2020-00719).
Identifiants: 99137312809311
Unité académique: Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive - CEFE
Langue: English
Type de ressource: Journal article
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