Experience and trust: the benefits of mate familiarity are realized through sex-specific specialization of parental roles in Cassin’s auklet

Maintaining a pair bond year after year (perennial monogamy) often enhances reproductive success, but what familiar pairs are doing differently to improve success is unknown. We tested the hypothesis that endocrine changes mediate improvements in parental attendance in known-age Cassin’s auklets Pty...

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Main Authors: Amy Yanagitsuru, Christopher Tyson, Frédéric Angelier, Michael Johns, Thomas Hahn, John Wingfield, Haley Land-Miller, Rebecca Forney, Elisha Hull
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Royal Society 2024-12-01
Series:Royal Society Open Science
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Online Access:https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.241258