Raptor siblings rarely share food with each other, and fratricide is even common. Barn Owls are an exception: the oldest nestling can be generous by giving food to a little brother or sister. An altruistic behavior that the team led by Prof. Alexandre Roulin at the UNIL’s Department of Ecology and Evolution deciphers in a recent article published in The American Naturalist.


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