The Relationships among Polygyny, Male Parental Care, and Female Breeding Success in the Indigo Bunting

The Auk ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 105 (2) ◽  
pp. 372-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
David F. Westneat
Keyword(s):  
Parental Care ◽  
Breeding Success

Reproductive consequences for males of paternal vs territorial strategies in the polygynous spotless starling under variable ecological

Behaviour ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 139 (5) ◽  
pp. 677-693 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Moreno ◽  
Marta Arenas ◽  
Sara Sánchez ◽  
José Veiga
Keyword(s):  
Parental Care ◽  
Breeding Success ◽  
Breeding Site ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Nest Boxes ◽  
Conflicting Demands ◽  
Spotless Starling ◽  
Territorial Strategies ◽  
Breeding Seasons ◽  
Reproductive Consequences

AbstractThe males' trade-off between caring for the offspring or investing in attracting additional mates is well established in the theory of mating systems. The reproductive consequences for males of alternative strategies adopted by them in response to these conflicting demands should depend on several ecological and social factors that may strongly vary among years. This variation, however, has been rarely addressed in field studies despite it being essential to understand the evolution of parental care in facultatively polygynous species. In the present paper, we examine the reproductive consequences of paternal vs. territorial strategies in the polygynous spotless starling (Sturnus unicolor) during four consecutive breeding seasons (1996-1999) in which the number of male defending nest boxes and several population variables such as nestling starvation rates, nest predation rates and fledgling production varied markedly. In 1996 we manipulated the propensity of males to feed their offspring by means of androgens and antiadrogens, and examined the consequences of male behaviour on reproductive success during the subsequent four breeding seasons. Males implanted in1996 with the antiandrogen cyproterone acetate (Cy-males) fed more frequently than males implanted with testosterone (T-males) or control males (C-males) both during the season in which they were implanted and in the next season. The number of nest boxes defended influenced total breeding success mainly in the years when male feeding frequency was less important for breeding success per nest. A lower proportion of Cy-males than T- or C-males still held at least a nest box in 1999, three years after they were implanted. As a result, the number of fledglings produced over the four years studied was smaller for Cy-males than for T- or C-males. These results suggest that the oscillating selective forces acting on breeding male starlings seem to operate more frequently against the development of parental care strategies, while the polygynous strategy seems to be favoured under a wide array of ecological conditions. Although increased density of potential breeders may constrain territorial expansion and polygyny, the high cost of losing a minimum breeding site may select for the maintenance of aggressive behaviour and low parental investment.

Nest-site interference competition with House Sparrows affects breeding success and parental care in Great Tits

2018 ◽  
Vol 159 (3) ◽  
pp. 667-673 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aya Goldshtein ◽  
Shai Markman ◽  
Yossi Leshem ◽  
Maya Puchinsky ◽  
Motti Charter
Keyword(s):  
Parental Care ◽  
Breeding Success ◽  
Nest Site ◽  
Interference Competition ◽  
House Sparrows

scholarly journals Musteloid sociality: the grass-roots of society

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David W. Macdonald ◽  
Chris Newman
Keyword(s):  
Parental Care ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Breeding Success ◽  
Mating Systems ◽  
Group Living ◽  
Low Density ◽  
Reproductive Suppression ◽  
Induced Ovulation ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Hunting Strategies

Excluded from the pursuit predator niche by better-adapted early felids and canids, the musteloids exploited other hunting strategies as grasslands proliferated in the Oligocene. Unconstrained by specialised running limbs, lineages evolved to excavate prey (badgers) and enter burrows (polecats). Others took to tree-climbing (martens, procynoids) and even swimming (otters). While some species specialised in rodent hunting (weasels) others became more generalist omnivores. In-turn the dispersion of these food types dictated socio-spatial geometries, allowing insectivorous, piscivorous and frugivorous species to congregate with varying degrees of social cohesion, often unified within subterranean burrows – a basis to group-living distinct from the pack-hunting felids and canids. Induced ovulation and delayed implantation feature in the mating systems of several species, evolved to ensure breeding success amongst low-density, solitary ancestors. Group-living musteloids exhibit degrees of reproductive suppression, allo-parental care and other cooperative behaviours, thus this contrarian superfamily provides unique insights into the basis of carnivore societies.

Differences in Breeding Success between Neighbouring Streaked Shearwater Subcolonies Correlate with Egg Size and Quality of Parental Care

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 189
Author(s):  
Annette L. Fayet ◽  
Masaki Shirai ◽  
Sakiko Matsumoto ◽  
Aimee Van Tatenhove ◽  
Ken Yoda ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Parental Care ◽  
Breeding Success ◽  
Egg Size

scholarly journals Fathers matter: male body mass affects life-history traits in a size-dimorphic seabird

2017 ◽  
Vol 284 (1854) ◽  
pp. 20170397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tina Cornioley ◽  
Stéphanie Jenouvrier ◽  
Luca Börger ◽  
Henri Weimerskirch ◽  
Arpat Ozgul
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Parental Care ◽  
Body Mass ◽  
Adult Male ◽  
Breeding Success ◽  
Life History Traits ◽  
Adult Survival ◽  
Animal Populations ◽  
Breeding Probability ◽  
The Impact

One of the predicted consequences of climate change is a shift in body mass distributions within animal populations. Yet body mass, an important component of the physiological state of an organism, can affect key life-history traits and consequently population dynamics. Over the past decades, the wandering albatross—a pelagic seabird providing bi-parental care with marked sexual size dimorphism—has exhibited an increase in average body mass and breeding success in parallel with experiencing increasing wind speeds. To assess the impact of these changes, we examined how body mass affects five key life-history traits at the individual level: adult survival, breeding probability, breeding success, chick mass and juvenile survival. We found that male mass impacted all traits examined except breeding probability, whereas female mass affected none. Adult male survival increased with increasing mass. Increasing adult male mass increased breeding success and mass of sons but not of daughters. Juvenile male survival increased with their chick mass. These results suggest that a higher investment in sons by fathers can increase their inclusive fitness, which is not the case for daughters. Our study highlights sex-specific differences in the effect of body mass on the life history of a monogamous species with bi-parental care.

Climate change and breeding success: decline of the capercaillie in Scotland

2001 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Moss ◽  
James Oswald ◽  
David Baines
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Breeding Success

Ageing: Parental Care and Reproduction Strategies

1995 ◽  
Vol 5 (12) ◽  
pp. 1689-1695 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Thoms ◽  
Peter Donahue ◽  
Doug Hunter ◽  
Naeem Jan
Keyword(s):  
Parental Care ◽  
Reproduction Strategies

Experimentally increased costs of parental care are shunted to offspring in species with extended care

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gretchen F. Wagner ◽  
Emeline Mourocq ◽  
Michael Griesser
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Parental Care ◽  
Total Duration ◽  
Bird Species ◽  
Life History Strategy ◽  
Experimental Treatment ◽  
Cost Of Care ◽  
Adult Survival ◽  
Supporting Evidence ◽  
Trade Offs

Biparental care systems are a valuable model to examine conflict, cooperation, and coordination between unrelated individuals, as the product of the interactions between the parents influences the fitness of both individuals. A common experimental technique for testing coordinated responses to changes in the costs of parental care is to temporarily handicap one parent, inducing a higher cost of providing care. However, dissimilarity in experimental designs of these studies has hindered interspecific comparisons of the patterns of cost distribution between parents and offspring. Here we apply a comparative experimental approach by handicapping a parent at nests of five bird species using the same experimental treatment. In some species, a decrease in care by a handicapped parent was compensated by its partner, while in others the increased costs of care were shunted to the offspring. Parental responses to an increased cost of care primarily depended on the total duration of care that offspring require. However, life history pace (i.e., adult survival and fecundity) did not influence parental decisions when faced with a higher cost of caring. Our study highlights that a greater attention to intergenerational trade-offs is warranted, particularly in species with a large burden of parental care. Moreover, we demonstrate that parental care decisions may be weighed more against physiological workload constraints than against future prospects of reproduction, supporting evidence that avian species may devote comparable amounts of energy into survival, regardless of life history strategy.

A family with oedipal dynamics

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-118
Author(s):  
Li Yanling ◽  
David E. Scharff
Keyword(s):  
Family Therapy ◽  
Parental Care ◽  
Young Woman ◽  
Discussion Group ◽  
Entire Group ◽  
Group Leaders ◽  
Couple And Family Therapy ◽  
Supervision Group ◽  
The Way

The following case presents the way that overtly oedipal identification in a young woman covered failure in early parental care and discontent between her parents. The case was presented by Li Yanling to her supervision group, and the commentary and elaboration have been gathered from comments from the entire group of advanced supervisees, all of whom were discussion group leaders in the Beijing Continuous Program in Psychoanalytic Couple and Family Therapy.

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