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Experiment Where all the good men have gone: a practical case of unnatainable women's standards found in wild life.

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Regent honeyeaters (Anthochaera Phrygia), which is one of the rarest birds endemic to Australia, have started to forget their songs. Researchers have found that because of the depopulation of the species young males find difficulties in meeting adult fellow specimens to learn singing from. As a result their songs are becoming less complicated. Some of them now can only sing a relatively short variation of the species-specific song and even have to imitate voices of other birds. Females are reluctant to copulate with them, which negativelly affects the reproduction process of the species. In an article for Proceedings of the Royal Society B researchers state (https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2021.0225) that captive breeding and later reintroduction into the wild are not effective, because males' songs tend to become even more simple in controlled environments.

Young individuals learn singing from parents and other specimens. This process preserves the vocal tratidion of the species and ensures that its specimens are able to communicate with each other. Because of negative human impact on the environment once numerous species of singing birds are becoming increasingly rare. As a result young individuals have difficulties obtaining singing skills because their fellow specimens have become much rarer to hear. This disruption of the cultural exchange makes songs become less and less complicated, which has already happened (https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.190719) to hawaiian honeycreepers (Drepanidini).

A team of researchers under Ross Crates from the Australian National University have set about to establish how depopulation affects the singing repertoire of another singing bird species -- regent honeyeaters (Anthochaera Phrygia). This species used to be widely found in the west Australia, but because of deforestation in recent decades the population has reduced to only 200-400 individuals scattered over a large area.

To learn a difficult song and attract females, a honeyeater must listen to its adult counterparts (but not to its father, because the father does not sing while the bird is growing). This makes the species vulnerable to extinction.

Ross Crates and his colleagues compared the songs of honeyeaters recorded in 2015-2019 and 1986-2011. The former sample was comprised of 146 individuals from two regions (the Blue Mountains and the Northern Tablelands), and the latter only 14 birds from the Blue Mountains. This was combined with the information from other 12 birds bred in captivity.

Researchers found that the songs sung in various regions differ from each other. The majority of the males from the Blue Mountans sing a different tune that doesn't appear in the Northern Tablelands. On the other side, the Northern Tablelands population has its own tune which is sung by most males. By Ross' esitmate, in 2015-2019 about 27% of honeyeaters sang tunes that differed from the regional cultural norm. For instance, some of the males from the Blue Mountains sang a tune from the Northern Tablelands. Eighteen males have abandoned species-specific signals altogether and imitated other singing birds and parrots.

The study found that the less individuals habitate the area of 1-50 kilometers, the greater is the chance that a wild male will sing a non-region-specific tune. This confirms that adult mentors play a crucial part in obtaining singing skills in honeyeaters. The density of the population has become especially low nowadays, so young males have no other adults to learn from.

Crates and co-authors also found that males that haven't obtained the tune specific to a particular area have difficulties in finding a partner. The males that sung a simpler variation of the tune specific to the Blue Mountains, imitate the Northern Tablelands' tune or other species, are rarely seen with females. And couples where the male sings a non-typical tune, tend to lay eggs rarer. This hurts the reproductive success of the population and negatively affects its biological prospect.

TLDR: FEMALES DON'T WANT TO COPULATE WITH WEAK MALES, THE SPECIES CANT PRODUCE GOOD MALE MATERIAL ANYMORE BECAUSE OF ITS DEPOPULATION AND WILL SOON GO EXTINCT BUT FEMALES ARE STUPIDLY UNREALISTIC AND COULDN'T CARE LESS. THANK YOU.
 
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