Data from: The evolution of parental cooperation in birds
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Remeš, Vladimír et al. (2016). Data from: The evolution of parental cooperation in birds [Dataset]. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.02jk0
Abstract
Parents in many animal species care for their offspring. In some species, males care more; in other species, females care more; in still other species, the contribution of the sexes is equal. However, we do not know what explains these differences among species. Using the most comprehensive analyses of parental care to date, here we show that parents cooperate more when sexual selection is not intense and the adult sex ratio of males to females is not strongly skewed. However, the degree of parental cooperation is unrelated to harshness and predictability of the ambient environment during the breeding season. Our work therefore suggests that several types of parental care may coexist in a given set of ambient environment.
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