The evolution of parental care /
Synthesizing studies of parental care in a wide variety of animals, this book is the first attempt to provide general answers to the following important questions: Why does the extent of parental care vary so widely between species? Why do only females care for eggs and young in some animals, only m...
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press
c1991.
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| Series: | Monographs in behavior and ecology.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvs32ssj |
Table of Contents:
- Parental care and competition for mates
- Forms of parental care
- The costs of breeding
- Propagule size
- Viviparity
- Incubation, gestation, and lactation
- Parental care in ectotherms
- Parental care in birds and mammals
- Parental tactics 1: Variation in care in relation to benefits
- Parental tactics 2: Variation in care in relation to costs
- Parent-offspring conflict
- Parental investment in sons and daughters
- Sex ratios and differential juvenile mortality
- Conclusions.