Egg burying behaviour in Pristimantis highlights the link between direct development and specialised parental care
Abstract One of the most extreme adaptations to terrestriality in anurans is direct development, where eggs from terrestrial clutches entirely circumvent an aquatic tadpole stage and directly develop into small froglets. We here report the first case of egg‐burying behaviour in a neotropical direct‐...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley
2023-12-01
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Series: | Ecology and Evolution |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10808 |