Great tits who know their neighbouring great tits are more likely to join in with mobbing behaviour of potential predators with the neighbours than those they don't know, apparently.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/17791276 I'm not too comfortable with the two rationales for the behaviour given in the link, though - I sort of think they would also apply to neighbours they don't know so well.:dunno:
David
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