Now live: a new website for our sister project at AfricanHoneyguides, sharing our research on the remarkable cooperative relationship between Greater Honeyguides and human honey-hunters (for information on the darker side of Greater Honeyguides, as brood parasites of other birds, see the Honeyguides page on this website).
A big thank you to Hennie Botha of Dumel Web Design, South Africa, for his beautiful design of both the AfricanHoneyguides and AfricanCuckoos websites.
Our paper “Chase-away evolution maintains imperfect mimicry in a brood parasite–host system despite rapid evolution of mimics” has been published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution.
Our paper “Repeatable randomness, invariant properties, and the design of biological signatures of identity” has been published in the journal Evolution.
Tanmay’s PhD, entitled “Signatures and forgeries: optimality in a coevolutionary arms race” was awarded with no corrections. Huge thanks to collaborators and colleagues who were instrumental to this work, and to examiners James Herbert-Read and Graeme Ruxton. Tanmay will remain on the team and continue conducting fieldwork in Choma as part of the Junior Research fellowship that he is starting at Jesus College, Cambridge.
Our paper “When perfection isn’t enough: host egg signatures are an effective defence against high-fidelity African cuckoo mimicry” has been published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.