Sexually selected infanticide by adult male barn swallows

Crook, Janice R.; Shields, William M.

doi:10.1016/s0003-3472(85)80007-5

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“…High levels of male-male reproductive competition promote the evolution of male infanticide (Crook and Shields 1985), and competition among male ringtailed lemurs is probably even more intense than formerly suspected (e.g, Smuts 1987). Despite the extreme brevity of mating seasons, no two female group mates pass through estrus on the same day (Pereira 1991).…”

Section: A Prospective Model Of the Mating System Of Ringtailed Lemursmentioning

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Female mate choice, male migration, and the threat of infanticide in ringtailed lemurs

Pereira

Weiss

1991

Behav Ecol Sociobiol

175

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Section: A Prospective Model Of the Mating System Of Ringtailed Lemursmentioning

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Female mate choice, male migration, and the threat of infanticide in ringtailed lemurs

Pereira

Weiss

1991

Behav Ecol Sociobiol

175

139

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“…67 Indeed, observational and experimental studies of birds have documented destruction of eggs, nestlings, and fledglings by males (and often by females as well). 52,[68][69][70][71][72][73][74] Several ornithologists have argued that infanticide has been largely neglected as a possible selective agent for the evolution of behaviors such as monogamy, male-female relationships, nest guarding, dispersal after nest failure, and responses to extra-pair conspecifics. Avian studies provide the best data for understanding the general conditions that select for infanticide by socially monogamous males, partly because ornithologists are able to perform male-removal experiments, which are barred to most field primatologists for practical or conservation reasons.…”

Section: Infanticide and Monogamy In Birdsmentioning

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“…First, unmated male birds are relatively abundant and generally constitute a large proportion of the floater population. 69,71 The option of mating with mated females is typically closed to these males because females as a rule preferentially pursue extrapair copulations with mated males. 83 Second, male infanticide in birds is committed primarily by unmated individuals.…”

Section: Benefits Of Infanticidementioning

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Infanticide and the evolution of pair bonds in nonhuman primates

Palombit¹

1999

Evol. Anthropol.

132

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“…More commonly, in other species of birds, males have been found to commit sexually selected infanticide in order to obtain additional matings (Crook and Shields 1985;Freed 1986;Moller 1988b;Robertson and Stutchbury 1988;Veiga 1990). Either they take over the female when she lays a replacement clutch or they get opportunities to engage in extrapair copulations (EPCs) when the victimised female renests with the original male.…”

Section: Intra-specific Infanticidementioning

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Higher rate of nest loss among primary than secondary females: infanticide in the great reed warbler?

Bensch

Hasselquist

1994

Behav Ecol Sociobiol

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A b s t r a c t An individually marked population of great reed warblers Acrocephalus arundinaceus was studied between 1984 and 1991 in South Central Sweden. The fates of 279 nests were analysed for the 25 days following clutch initiation. The average frequency of nest loss (43%) did not differ significantly between years or between four periods of the breeding season. After a breeding failure, 70% of the females laid a replacement clutch, most of them together with the same male. On polygnous territories, males assisted the female who first hatched young regardless of her initial mating status (Fig. 2). According to the acutal status of the females attending the nests, for each day nests were classified as being of either monogamous (M), primary (P) or secondary (S) status. From egg-laying to fledging the rate of nest loss decreased among nests of primary status whereas it increased among nests of monogamous and secondary status. During the egg-laying period, the rate of nest loss was 3 times higher among nests of primary than among nests of monogamous and secondary status (Fig. 3). Thus, the high loss level among nests of primary status during the laying period was closely associated with the presence of a female with a less advanced nest on the territory. All nests were situated in reed beds above deep water and most of them at a height at which possible inter-specific nest predators would have caused disturbance to the nest itself. The suspicion that secondary females committed sexually selected infanticide was supported by an experiment with dummy eggs that revealed bill peck markings identical to those obtained from great reed warblers (Fig. 4).

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Sexually selected infanticide by adult male barn swallows

Cited by 75 publications

References 28 publications

Female mate choice, male migration, and the threat of infanticide in ringtailed lemurs

Female mate choice, male migration, and the threat of infanticide in ringtailed lemurs

Infanticide and the evolution of pair bonds in nonhuman primates

Higher rate of nest loss among primary than secondary females: infanticide in the great reed warbler?

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