Beautiful ‘supertramp’ birds in Southeast Asia are providing unique insights into how evolution is linked to flight ability and competition. New research testing decades-old theories has confirmed that the isolating effects of islands impact the evolution of even the species most accomplished at colonizing them — and in some surprising ways. Among the eye-opening findings is the discovery that these birds settle down more readily than would be expected — once they have colonized an island they tend to stay there rather than searching for others.
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Source: ScienceDaily