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Like us, fairywrens have a society with different levels of closeness, and they are most likely to respond to distress calls from their inner circle, followed by calls from their community, while calls from strangers largely go unanswered. The authors say this shows that for both human and superb fairy-wren societies, there are social groups that predict the strength of cooperation by individuals. The authors say we still don't know whether these differences in levels of cooperation evolved as a consequence of having a multilevel social structure, or whether differences in levels of cooperation are what drive the emergence of these societies.
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