Speckled Mousebird Eye Coloration Data Supporting Social Signal Hypothesis Study

Datasets used for analyses described in the manuscript 'Cryptic eye coloration change in highly-social speckled mousebirds: a challenge for the social signal hypothesis?'. The data was authored by Kat Bebbington and last updated on May 28, 2026. It is shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license on the figshare platform.

Use Cases

• Testing hypotheses about social signal function based on eye coloration data.
• Analyzing correlations between social context and cryptic coloration changes.
• Comparing visual signaling data across different bird species or social structures.
• Reproducing statistical analyses from the associated scientific manuscript.

Strengths

• Data is directly linked to a peer-reviewed scientific manuscript, providing clear research context.
• Shared under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, allowing for broad reuse.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Kat Bebbington

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-28 11:06:21; freshness should be verified.