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Groups of vulturine guineafowl can become very large, and when multiple groups come into contact the number of birds moving together can reach into the hundreds. However, when these ‘super-groups’ eventually split, they do so back into their original stable group units, meaning that individuals are knowledgeable about who is part of their group and who is not. Image credit: Danai Papageorgiou.

Vulturine Guineafowl Found to Live in Multilevel Societies

Nov 5, 2019 by News Staff

Vulturine guineafowl (Acryllium vulturinum), a species of large terrestrial bird from East Africa, live in large, multi-male, multi-female groups that...