About the Authors

Martijn Hammers

martijnhammers@gmail.com

Affiliations Behavioural Ecology and Self-organization, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands, Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom

David S. Richardson

Affiliations Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom, Nature Seychelles, Victoria, Mahé, Seychelles

Terry Burke

Affiliation Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Jan Komdeur

Affiliation Behavioural Ecology and Self-organization, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MH DSR TB JK. Performed the experiments: MH DSR JK. Analyzed the data: MH. Wrote the paper: MH DSR TB JK.