ArticleEcology and evolution2025
No Evidence for Male Retaliation in a Population With High Level of Extra-Pair Paternity.
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Abstract
Extra-pair paternity (EPP) is a widespread phenomenon, as EPP has been observed in 76% of the socially monogamous bird species. Many hypotheses try to explain the evolution of infidelity. While females may participate in extra-pair copulations, for instance, to ensure the fertilisation of their eggs or to obtain potential genetic benefits for their offspring, unfaithful females face many potential costs too. As nestling provisioning is one of, if not the most energetically costly forms of parental care, the certainty of paternity hypothesis predicts that males with an unfaithful partner reduce their parental investment to avoid the fitness loss arising from rearing unrelated nestlings. We investigated the relationship between the presence and proportion of extra-pair young (EPY) and the feeding rate of the social male to reveal whether males recognise and penalise unfaithfulness. We conducted the study in a Hungarian population of collared flycatchers (
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