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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"parent-offspring conflict"”.
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Parent-Offspring Conflict and the Allocation of Parental Investment in the Feral Pigeon (Columba Livia) (Nestling Growth, Concorde Fallacy, Food Limitation)
… pigeons (Columba livia) increased feeding of offspring in response to playback of recorded begging calls. Parent-offspring conflict can account for these results, if parents cease responding to offspring demands when costs of investment are relatively high. This hypothesis was tested by giving …
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The Impact of Mother and Adolescent Offspring Distress Reduction Training on Maternal Anxiety and Alcohol Related Behaviors Following Conflict
… problems. Elevated distress during interpersonal conflict is likely to maintain both alcohol use and anxiety psychopathology. Reducing distress elicited by normative mother-adolescent conflict holds particular promise. Conflict is common in families with problematic drinking and anxiety disorders …
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Breastfeeding after a caesarean section: Mother-infant health trade-offs
… were unfolding. I apply Trivers’s (1974) parent-offspring conflict model to conceptualise breastfeeding and predict realisation of infant feeding based on the interaction of maternal cost and infant benefit. The work adds the previously unstudied population of caesarean section-delivered …
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Age-specific mortality, pre- to post-fledging carryover effects, and the timing of fledging in altricial songbirds
… with respect to the mortality of dependent offspring. Altricial songbirds provide a practical system to examine associations among variation in life histories and offspring mortality as nest and post-fledging account for the vast majority of offspring mortalities. My research examined …
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Maternal care in a highly precocial mammal, the guinea pig (Cavia aperea f. porcellus)
… should adjust costly nursing to their own and to offspring condition in order to allow optimal offspring development at minimal fitness costs to themselves. They may assess offspring condition by monitoring offspring appearance and solicitation intensity. Young should be selected to influence …
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The pre-reproductive period in a tropical bird: parental care, dispersal, survival, and avian life histories
The period between offspring birth and recruitment into the breeding population is considered one of the least understood components of animal life histories. Yet, examining this period is essential for studies of parental care, dispersal, demography, and life histories. Studies of the …