Nest predation predicts infanticide in a cooperatively breeding bird
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DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2019.0314
Abstract: In cooperatively breeding species, social conflict is typically assumed to underlie destructive behaviours like infanticide. However, an untested alternative hypothesis in birds is that infanticide in the form of egg tossing may simply be a… read more here.
Keywords: social conflict; nest predation; cooperatively breeding; predation ... See more keywords