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Description and photographs of cricket parental care in the wild [PDF]
Journal of Orthoptera Research, 2021 Although certain forms of parental care are relatively widespread phenomena among insects, within Orthoptera, parental care is rare. Short-tailed burrowing crickets (Anurogryllus spp.) are among the few members of this order for which extensive parental ...
Darin J. McNeil, Bettina Erregger
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, 2022 Providing care to offspring is a costly, but effective strategy of parents to increase the fitness of their descendants. In insects, parental care has repeatedly evolved in a wide range of taxa. It can take a great diversity of forms, occur at different times during offspring development, last from a few minutes to several years and involve either the ...
Meunier, Joël +2 more
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Fruiting Season Length Restricts Global Distribution of Female-Only Parental Care in Frugivorous Passerine Birds. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Food availability is known to influence parental care and mating systems in passerine birds. Altricial chicks make uni-parental care particularly demanding for passerines and parental investment is known to increase with decreasing food availability.
Sahas Barve, Frank A La Sorte
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Cross-cultural metathemes of Chinese and Japanese university students' perspective on parental care
Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 IntroductionDue to declining birthrates and aging populations, parental care is going to place a greater burden on younger generations in the future, especially in East Asia where it is more common for children to provide care regardless of whether there
Xuxin Peng +6 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 This study examined the patterns and characteristics of non-parental child care arrangements for Chinese very young children before they enter preschool and the extent to which families’ utilization of non-parental child care influenced parenting stress.
Xiumin Hong, Wenting Zhu, Li Luo
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Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Phenotypic plasticity in parental care investment allows organisms to promptly respond to rapid environmental changes by potentially benefiting offspring survival and thus parental fitness.
Davide Spatafora +4 more
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BMC Health Services Research, 2022 Background Parental satisfaction is a well-established outcome indicator and tool for assessing a healthcare system’s quality, as well as input for developing strategies for providing acceptable patient care.
Yewlsew Fentie Alle +3 more
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BMC Oral Health, 2022 Background Children and adolescents with special health care needs (SHCN) have higher unmet dental needs, but the potential mechanisms by which parental factors can influence dental care use have not been determined.
Arwa Z. Gazzaz +3 more
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Sex roles, parental care and offspring growth in two contrasting coucal species [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 The decision to provide parental care is often associated with trade-offs, because resources allocated to parental care typically cannot be invested in self-maintenance or mating.
Wolfgang Goymann +3 more
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International Journal of Africa Nursing Sciences, 2022 Background: Parental satisfaction is an effective strategy to improve the quality of neonatal care and reduce neonatal mortality. Low parental satisfaction may result in discharge against medical advice, increased neonatal readmission, morbidity, and ...
Ayichew Alemu +5 more
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