parental care
- Physiology, activity and costs of parental care in birds
Summary: Contrary to expectation, parental care might not involve sustained, high-intensity activity; that is, it might not be ‘hard work’ and, consequently, costs of reproduction and physiological signatures of costs might rarely be experienced.
- Modeling the costs and benefits associated with the evolution of endothermy using a robotic python
Summary: A robotic snake that models the energetic costs and thermal benefits associated with facultative endothermy in pythons.
- Intergenerational transmission of sociality: the role of parents in shaping social behavior in monogamous and non-monogamous species
Summary: In this paper, we review the ways in which parents shape social behavior in offspring, in both monogamous and non-monogamous mammals.
- Oxidative stress during courtship affects male and female reproductive effort differentially in a wild bird with biparental care
Summary: In the brown booby, oxidative stress may arise as a cost of pre-laying reproductive investment in both sexes and constrain investment in eggs and offspring by females.