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Overall, being lighter on D11 predicted rejecting fewer (i.e. consuming more) toxic prey during the experiment.

Birds that had faced high early competition ate more toxic prey as adults.

Birds that grew poorly as chicks ate more toxic prey as adults.

This trade-off is affected by current state: animals will consume more toxic prey if they are food deprived.

The positive coefficient of weight on D11 means that birds that had been heavier at D11 rejected more toxic prey.

We found an effect of diet, with birds consuming more toxic prey while on the low-quality diet, and also of developmental history, with birds from the high-competition brood size treatment eating more toxic prey than their low-competition siblings.

Our results suggest that if predators more readily ingest toxic prey at low temperatures, warning coloration will become even more costly as temperature decreases.

In line with previous research (Barnett et al., 2007, 2012), we predicted that birds whose current diet was poor would be more willing to consume toxic prey.

Perhaps this strategy is particularly effective at lower temperatures when predators are more willing to ingest toxic prey, since it ensures that a predator's toxin burden is reached, allowing the majority of individuals to survive.

The birds differed in their sensitivity to changes in ambient temperature, with heavier birds increasing the number of toxic prey they ate more rapidly with decreasing temperature compared to birds with lower body mass.

Therefore, prey populations that are more toxic are predicted to manifest less bright signals.