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Published online 3 May 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010503-8
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Fussy females play away
Sometimes it pays a bird to look beyond her own species for a mate.
Breeding with a member of another species is generally thought to be pretty pointless. When a horse mates with a donkey, for example, the resulting mule is sterile.
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