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Field and laboratory observations of winter flocking behavior in the Black—capped Chickadee, Parus atricapillus, suggest a previously undescribed advantage to winter flocing in this species: flocked individuals are subjected to less aggression from other, solitary birds than when they are themselves solitary.
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David P. Barash (1974) studied this question.
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