Parental Care
Insect parental care
Distribution of parental care in vertebrates
Why male parental care?
Alternative hypotheses for providing care
Parental care in fishes and frogs
Parental care can cost females more than males
Alternative hypotheses for providing care: evidence
How much care to invest?
Parental investment changes
Parental care detracts from future survival in willow tits
Sex ratio influences male parental care
Parent-offspring conflict
Parent-offspring conflict: how much care to provide
Begging loudness increases as relatedness within nest decreases
Parent-offspring conflict: time of weaning
Parental investment and maternal age
Who should receive care?
Chick color affects parental feeding in mixed broods of coots
Parent intervention in siblicide
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