Key roles of paternal care and climate on offspring survival of an Amazonian poison frog [PDF]
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2021 In poison frogs (Dendrobatoidea), usually the males are territorial, care for terrestrial nests and later transport their offspring to waterbodies where they complete larval development.
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Acute peaks of testosterone suppress paternal care: evidence from individual hormonal reaction norms. [PDF]
Proc Biol Sci, 2017 Goymann W, Flores Dávila P.
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Maternal-Fetal Attachment (MFA) delineates the emotional, cognitive, and behavioral aspects that mothers develop toward the unborn baby during pregnancy. The literature indicates that optimal attachment in pregnancy represents a protective factor for the
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Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2023 IntroductionThe impact of variation in parental caregiving has lasting implications for the development of offspring. However, the ways in which parents impact each other in the context of caregiving is comparatively less understood, but can account for ...
Lisa C. Hiura +2 more
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Paternal care decreases foraging activity and body condition, but does not impose survival costs to caring males in a Neotropical arachnid. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Exclusive paternal care is the rarest form of parental investment in nature and theory predicts that the maintenance of this behavior depends on the balance between costs and benefits to males.
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Parenting behaviour is highly heritable in male stickleback [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 Parental care is critical for fitness, yet little is known about its genetic basis. Here, we estimate the heritability of parenting behaviour in a species famous for its diversity and its behavioural repertoire: three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus ...
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Relating paternity to paternal care [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 2002 Intuition suggests, to most people, that parents should be selected to care for their offspring in relation to how certain they are of being the parents of those offspring. Theoretical models of the relationship between parental investment and certainty of parentage predict the two to be related only when some other assumptions are made, few of which ...
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Of Apples and Oranges? The Evolution of “Monogamy” in Non-human Primates
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Behavioral ecologists, evolutionary biologists, and anthropologists have been long fascinated by the existence of “monogamy” in the animal kingdom.
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Chimpanzee fathers bias their behaviour towards their offspring [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 Promiscuous mating was traditionally thought to curtail paternal investment owing to the potential costs of providing care to unrelated infants. However, mounting evidence suggests that males in some promiscuous species can recognize offspring.
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Paternal Values towards Women’s Empowerment and its Associations with Maternal and Paternal Antenatal Care Attendance among Sub–saharan African Population 2010-2014 [PDF]
Journal of Midwifery & Reproductive HealthBackground & aim: Increased paternal engagement in antenatal care and birth positively influences pregnancy outcomes. There is very little research that describes the men's value of the reproductive health of their partner and its impact on paternal ...
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