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black-capped chickadee

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Also known as: Parus atricapillus, Poecile atricapillus

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animal social behaviour and dominance

  • Serengeti National Park, Tanzania: herd of gnu (wildebeests)
    In animal social behaviour: Dominance

    …role in mating patterns in black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus), where more dominant males tend to mate with more dominant females. Higher-status pairs then experience greater overwinter survival, presumably compete more effectively for high-quality breeding space, and produce more offspring.

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  • Black-capped chickadee (Parus atricapillus)
    In chickadee

    …across North America is the black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus), 13 cm (5 inches) long, with dark cap and bib. See also tit.

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  • black-capped chickadee
    In Paridae

    …popular American species is the black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus); in Europe there is the similar willow tit (P. montanus), immortalized by Gilbert and Sullivan.

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