Patterns of adoption in ring-billed gulls: who is really winning the inter-generational conflict?
Article Abstract:
A study was conducted to analyze the parental and nesting behavior in ring-billed gulls. Of the 47 gulls studied, 34 were successfully adopted by unrelated couples and continued to receive prenatal care, while the 13 chicks remained in the brood. Results showed that adoptees whose oldest chick was less than 7 days old had a higher adoption rate. However, chicks which adopted other chicks had a low annual breeding rate compared to pairs which had chicks that departed from their nest. The results suggest that chicks which depart their brood gain benefit through foster care.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1995
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Effects of reducing the mother's radius of action on the development of mother-infant relationships in longtailed macaques
Article Abstract:
A study on the effects of reducing the mother's radius of action on the development of mother-infant relationships in longtailed macaqueswas conducted. Results indicate that there was no effect on the separation of mothers on mother-infant relationships. Also, young of the restrained mothers exhibited a longer period of maturation measured by the amount of time it took for young to independently move beyond arms' reach of their mothers.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1993
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Maternal care and differences in the use of nests in the domestic cat
Article Abstract:
The variable forms of maternal behavior in the domestic cat, Felis silvestris catus, are investigated. Domestic cats use covert nest sites in which to rear their young,and multiple nest sites are used over the pre-weaning period in order to maintain nest covertness in the presence of possible predators and infanticide by conspecifics. Moreover, cats exhibit both solitary and communal litter-rearing.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1993
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
- Abstracts: Proximate and ultimate causes of adoption in ring-billed gulls. Deciding where to settle: conspecific attraction and web site selection in the orb-web spider Nephilengys cruentata
- Abstracts: Surface ozone depletion in Arctic spring sustained by bromine reactions on aerosols. Ideas flow on Antarctic vortex
- Abstracts: Oceans of change. Paleoclimate: When the world turned cold
- Abstracts: Resonant pattern formation in a chemical system. Competition exposed by knight?. Controlling chaos in the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction
- Abstracts: Activation of the transcription factor Gli1 and the Sonic hedgehog signalling pathway in skin tumours. Two nuclear signalling pathways for vitamin D