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We thank the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Agricultural Experiment Station at Cornell University, and the Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science at UC Berkeley for financial support, K.J. McGraw for assistance with spectrophotometry, and E.A. Lacey and J.M. Mateo for commentary.

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Hauber, M.E., Sherman, P.W. Designing and interpreting experimental tests of self-referent phenotype matching. Anim Cogn 6, 69–71 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-003-0164-0

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