Fair weather friends?
The Hindu
That may well be the case, but in the world of the scaly-breasted munia, the weather is always fair, and so you can never tell
With their flocking behaviour and how they take kindly to the presence of “free-loaders”, scaly-breasted munias may be seen as epitomising esprit de corps in the avian world.
At the door of the scaly-breasted munia’s vast dining hall, nobody is turned away hungry, even those who have not paid their way to it. Individuals can just show up where others have discovered food, and have their fill without feeling guilty about it. In truth, it is not free-loading, not at all. In the end, it turns out to be recompense for hidden labour, though the birds themselves may not fully understand how this works out; but just the same, they do everything to foster the system. More about that later.
Before that, why do scaly-breasted munias tolerate the so-called free-loaders in the first place?
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