spotted antbird


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Related to spotted antbird: Hylophylax
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Noun1.spotted antbird - a kind of antbird
Hylophylax naevioides
ant bird, antbird - any of various dull-colored South American birds that feeding on ants some following army ant swarms
genus Hylophylax, Hylophylax - a genus of Formicariidae
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Wikelski and Hau have found that a male spotted antbird's concentrations of testosterone in the blood hardly vary throughout the year.
A study of tropical spotted antbirds, however, shows they do respond to small changes in day length.
They reported last year that testosterone spiked at only 1.5 ng/ml in male spotted antbirds, and that was only after researchers played recordings of an intruder for up to 90 minutes.
The tropical majority: have studies of temperate-zone birds warped our view?

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