2024
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.11394
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May brood desertion be ruled by partner parenting capability in a polygamous songbird? An experimental study

Jia Zheng,
Hui Wang,
Jiayao Jiang
et al.

Abstract: Parents confront multiple aspects of offspring demands and need to coordinate different parental care tasks. Biparental care is considered to evolve under circumstances where one parent is not competent for all tasks and cannot efficiently raise offspring. However, this hypothesis is difficult to test, as uniparental and biparental care rarely coexist. Chinese penduline tits (Remiz consobrinus) provide such a system where both parental care types occur. Here, we experimentally investigated whether parents in b… Show more

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