Social Behaviour: Males Help When Mates Are Rare

Sjouke A. Kingma; Tamás Székely

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2019.03.060

Social Behaviour: Males Help When Mates Are Rare

Sjouke A. Kingma, Tamás Székely

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In cooperatively-breeding animals, some individuals may postpone or completely forego independent reproduction to help others reproduce. A recent large-scale manipulation of adult sex ratio in wild nuthatches suggests that male birds postpone breeding because of a shortage of potential mates.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	R370-R372
Number of pages	3
Journal	Current Biology
Volume	29
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.03.060
Publication status	Published - 20 May 2019

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General Biochemistry,Genetics and Molecular Biology
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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