Divorce in the long-lived and monogamous oystercatcher, Haematopus ostralegus: incompatibility or choosing the better option?
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Divorce in osytercatchers, though rare, occurs when there is a desire for a change in the male partner or when there is a competition for good males or good territories. The females show a tendency to divorce when they are provided with an option of moving to better territories. However, the reproductive success of divorced birds is lower when the change of male partners is made during the breeding season.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1993
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Reproductive skew and communal breeding in the subsocial beetle Parastizopus armaticeps
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The results of experiments conducted to study changes in reproductive patterns due to shared breeding in subsocial beetle (Parastizopus armaticeps) are presented.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2006
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Fitness consequences of divorce in the oystercatcher, Haematopus ostralegus
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The fitness consequences of divorce in oystercatchers are investigated. In this investigation a distinction between two types of divorce is made.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2003
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