| it's cool to be dominant: social status alters short-term risks of heat stress. | climate change has the potential to trigger social change. as a first step towards understanding mechanisms determining the vulnerability of animal societies to rising temperatures, we investigated interactions between social rank and thermoregulation in three arid-zone bird species: fawn-coloured lark (mirafra africanoides, territorial); african red-eyed bulbul (pycnonotus nigricans, loosely social) and sociable weaver (philetairus socius, complex cooperative societies). we assessed relationshi ... | 2017 | 28202587 |