Gouldian finches are followers with black-headed females taking the lead

• Andrias O. O’Reilly,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Natural Sciences & Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University, James Parsons building, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Gerhard Hofmann,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Independent Researcher, Moreton, Wirral, United Kingdom

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• Claudia Mettke-Hofmann

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: C.C.Mettke-Hofmann@ljmu.ac.uk

  Affiliation School of Natural Sciences & Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University, James Parsons building, Liverpool, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3874-5035

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