Superb starlings help care for the offspring of birds they are not related to. “To me, that sounds like friendship,” one ...

A study of starlings in Africa shows that they form long-term social bonds similar to human friendships. The fact that humans who are not related by blood help each other repeatedly over time is ...

Superb starlings appear to swap between parent and ‘nanny’ roles to help raise chicks over their lifetimes, even when they ...

A new study of African starlings led by Alexis Earl, a former PhD student in the lab of Professor Dustin Rubenstein, and ...

Humans who are not related by blood help each other repeatedly over time. But the idea that such interactions occur in the ...