Divorce is linked with extra‐pair paternity in a monogamous passerine

The question of why socially monogamous females engage in extra‐pair behaviour is long‐standing in evolutionary biology. Due to a lack of empirical support among passerine birds, recent work has moved away from the indirect‐benefits hypothesis to explain extra‐pair mating behaviour by females, inste...

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Main Authors: Jamie Dunning, Terry Burke, Julia Schroeder
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2024-03-01
Series:Journal of Avian Biology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1111/jav.03171