Chapter 12 Opener: Parental care is full of puzzles.

Chapter 12 Opener: Parental care is full of puzzles

12.1 Parental care is the evolutionary product of fitness costs and benefits

12.2 Parental care is provided by females in the Membracinae

12.3 Paternal care in fishes and opportunities for polygyny

12.4 Parental care costs female St. Peter’s fish more than it costs males

12.5 Male water bugs provide uniparental care

12.6 Evolution of brood care by males in the Nepoidea

12.7 Mexican free-tailed bat mothers recognize their pups

12.8 Adoption by a female goldeneye duck

12.9 Call distinctiveness enables offspring recognition by parents

12.10 Reactions of nest-defending bluegill males to potential egg and fry predators

12.11 Male baboons intervene on behalf of their own offspring (Part 1)

12.11 Male baboons intervene on behalf of their own offspring (Part 2)

12.12 Why seek adoptive parents?

12.13 Effective begging depends on how high a baby bird can reach relative to its nestmates

12.14 Specialized brood parasitism by cuckoos has evolved three times

12.15 Evolution of brood parasitism among cowbirds

12.16 Widowbirds parasitize closely related species

12.17 Size of a “brood parasite” nestling relative to its host species determines its survival chances

12.18 The cost of abandoning a parasitized nest depends on the availability of new nest sites

12.19 An avian mafioso

12.20 A product of an evolutionary arms race? (Part 1)

12.20 A product of an evolutionary arms race? (Part 2)

12.20 A product of an evolutionary arms race? (Part 3)

12.21 Sibling aggression in the great egret

12.22 Early siblicide in the brown booby

12.23 Parent boobies can control siblicide to some extent

12.24 A honest signal of condition?

12.25 The color of the mouth gape affects the amount of food that nestling barn swallows are given

12.26 The effect of orange feather ornaments of baby coots on parental care (Part 1)

12.26 The effect of orange feather ornaments of baby coots on parental care (Part 2)

12.27 Nestling survival probability and defense of the nest by parent magpies (Part 1)

12.27 Nestling survival probability and defense of the nest by parent magpies (Part 2)