Individuals of many species form bonds with their breeding partners, yet the mechanisms maintaining these bonds are poorly understood. In birds, allopreening is a conspicuous feature of interactions between breeding partners and has been hypothesized to play a role in strengthening and maintaining pair bonds within and across breeding attempts. Many avian species, however, do not allopreen and the relationship between allopreening and pair bonding across species remains unexplored. In a comparative analysis of allopreening and pair bond behavior, we found that allopreening between breeding partners was more common among species where parents cooperate to rear offspring. The occurrence of allopreening was also associated with an increased li...
The benefits of stable pair bonds (that persist between breeding attempts) have been well described,...
The evolution of helping behaviour in species that breed cooperatively in family groups is typically...
In approximately 3.2 % of bird species individuals regularly forgo the opportunity to breed independ...
Individuals of many species form bonds with their breeding partners, yet the mechanisms maintaining ...
Individuals of many species form bonds with their breeding partners, yet the mechanisms maintaining ...
In many socially monogamous bird species, both sexes regularly engage in mating outside their pair b...
The evolution of cooperative breeding (CB) in birds has aroused intensive interest for decades, larg...
Parental care provided by males occurs in a diverse array of animals and there are large differences...
Socially monogamous female birds routinely mate with males outside the pair bond. Three alternative ...
1. Evolutionary and behavioral ecologists have long been interested in factors shaping the variation...
In cooperatively breeding species, groups of three or more individuals cooperate in raising young. ...
Parents in many animal species care for their offspring. In some species, males care more; in other ...
In socially monogamous species, males that risk cuckoldry more than others might gain inclusive fitn...
The benefits of stable pair bonds (that persist between breeding attempts) have been well described,...
The evolution of helping behaviour in species that breed cooperatively in family groups is typically...
In approximately 3.2 % of bird species individuals regularly forgo the opportunity to breed independ...
Individuals of many species form bonds with their breeding partners, yet the mechanisms maintaining ...
Individuals of many species form bonds with their breeding partners, yet the mechanisms maintaining ...
In many socially monogamous bird species, both sexes regularly engage in mating outside their pair b...
The evolution of cooperative breeding (CB) in birds has aroused intensive interest for decades, larg...
Parental care provided by males occurs in a diverse array of animals and there are large differences...
Socially monogamous female birds routinely mate with males outside the pair bond. Three alternative ...
1. Evolutionary and behavioral ecologists have long been interested in factors shaping the variation...
In cooperatively breeding species, groups of three or more individuals cooperate in raising young. ...
Parents in many animal species care for their offspring. In some species, males care more; in other ...
In socially monogamous species, males that risk cuckoldry more than others might gain inclusive fitn...
The benefits of stable pair bonds (that persist between breeding attempts) have been well described,...
The evolution of helping behaviour in species that breed cooperatively in family groups is typically...
In approximately 3.2 % of bird species individuals regularly forgo the opportunity to breed independ...