Jay

• McPherson College announced today that legendary television host and comedian Jay Leno will narrate “The Path to Pebble,” a documentary that tells the incredible story of McPherson College’s decade-long journey to compete at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, the most prestigious car show in the world culminating in a historic podium finish in August 2023.
• A special “sneak peek” for the public will take place in McPherson on February 13 at 7 p.m. at the McPherson Opera House.
• In 2023, McPherson College’s 1953 Mercedes-Benz 300S Cabriolet – restored entirely by students of the college’s Automotive Restoration program – secured second in class at the 72nd Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance.
• The victory marked the first time in Concours history that an entirely student-restored car has ranked in the top three in class at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance.

• SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The highly anticipated new Embarcadero neighborhood hotel, The Jay, an Autograph Collection Hotel, is now open.
• "We're so pleased to unveil The Jay at this exciting time in San Francisco history," said The Jay's General Manager Michael Musarra.
• We are thrilled to incorporate all those elements into this new, stunning hotel in the vibrant Embarcadero neighborhood."
• Each meeting room's unique modern design tells a story that aligns with the San Francisco legend for which the rooms are named.

• Funding for the endowed chair is part of a total grant of $2.1 million from the foundation and will help move Craig Hospital's translational research agenda forward.
• The new endowed chair of research will constitute a permanent, yet flexible, source of funding for Craig's research program.
• "I am so appreciative of the generous gift from the Jay and Rose Phillips Foundation of Colorado to establish Craig Hospital's first endowed chair of research," Dr. Tefertiller says.
• The Craig Hospital Foundation is deeply grateful to the Jay and Rose Phillips Family Foundation of Colorado for their long-standing dedication to Craig Hospital.

• Sometimes death can occur as a result of this competition, but siblicide almost always occurs when young are still in the nest.
• In many species, despite sibling conflicts, juveniles have the choice to stay within the home territory or leave and seek out a new home.
• This study on sibling conflict in wild animals is the first to measure the cost of kicking out siblings.

Canada jay behaviour

• To do this, we examined the survival and lifetime reproductive success of all known dominant juveniles and ejectees.
• Because Canada jays can live up to 17 years, it took over five decades to collect lifetime data on a sufficient number of individuals in the population.
• Canada jays are full-time residents of North Americas’s boreal forests, and they rely on stored food items to survive through the winter.

Winner takes all

• And while the dominant juvenile reaps those benefits, ejectees are sentenced to a risky first year of life, where they are less likely to survive.
• It is not necessarily a beneficial thing to kill or expel a sibling, even if the ability is there.
• Siblings share genes, so harming a sibling has a negative effect on the genetic success of an individual’s lineage.

Sibling behaviour and survival

• This trend is due to warming temperatures and higher frequencies of freeze-thaw events that spoil the highly perishable food that jays store for winter.
• Our study is important for the field of behavioural ecology, and it provides novel insights into the evolutionary drivers of sibling conflicts.