Parental care is a behavioural and evolutionary strategy adopted by some animals, involving a parental investment being made to the evolutionary fitness...

Parental care refers to the level of investment provided by the mother and the father to ensure development and survival of their offspring. In most birds...

PMC 2610157. PMID 18547909. Crump, Martha L. (1996). "Parental care among the Amphibia". Parental Care: Evolution, Mechanisms, and Adaptive Significance....

matriphagy is an extreme form of parental care but is highly related to extended care in the Funnel-web spider, parental investment in caecilians, and gerontophagy...

abandoned children receive parental care from non-parent or non-blood relations. Others may be adopted, raised in foster care, or placed in an orphanage...

In biology, paternal care is parental investment provided by a male to his own offspring. It is a complex social behaviour in vertebrates associated with...

such as in marmosets. In fish there is no parental care in 79% of bony fish. In fish with parental care, it usually limited to selecting, preparing...

egg-feeding parental care, and that this combination favors the evolution of biparental care in these species. The hormonal regulation of parental care in this...

benefits offspring. Parental investment may be performed by both males and females (biparental care), females alone (exclusive maternal care) or males alone...

second to copulate and can mate more than 100 times a day. Males provide parental care in proportion to their mating success, so two males and a female can...

sites. These nests often become sites of intense courtship rituals and parental care. Like other fish, Nile tilapia travel almost exclusively in schools...

important factors in parental care. There are many levels of parental care in mango tilapia: uniparental and biparental parental care (male, female or both...

Parental leave, or family leave, is an employee benefit available in almost all countries. The term "parental leave" may include maternity, paternity...

1990.258.3.R559. PMID 2180324. Crump, M. L. (1996). "Parental care among the Amphibia". Parental Care: Evolution, Mechanisms, and Adaptive Significance....

The giraffe is a large African hoofed mammal belonging to the genus Giraffa. It is the tallest living terrestrial animal and the largest ruminant on Earth...

and incubated by the parents. Most birds have an extended period of parental care after hatching. Many species of birds are economically important as...

amphibian world for exhibiting a high degree of parental care. The strawberry poison frog has dual parental care. The males defend and water the nests, and...

understanding of the evolution of parental care in avians generally. The ancestral avian most likely had a female parental care system. The shorebird ancestor...

Calliphora vomitoria, known as the blue bottle fly, orange-bearded blue bottle, or bottlebee, is a species of blow fly, a species in the family Calliphoridae...

Maladera formosae, commonly known as the Asiatic garden beetle and formerly known as Maladera castanea, is a species of beetle in the family Scarabaeidae...

rests on their life-history traits: Tilapias exhibit high levels of parental care as well as the capacity to spawn multiple broods through an extended...

give birth only a few times during their lives and invest considerable parental care in their young. The time between births is unclear, with estimates ranging...

genetically monogamous birds. The increase in male blue-headed vireo parental care is thought to be attributed to the levels of testosterone and prolactin...

Anthocharis cardamines, the orange tip, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae, which contains about 1,100 species. A. cardamines is mainly found throughout...

depending on the extent of parental care. This ranges from the simple laying of eggs under a leaf, to the parental care provided by scarab beetles, which...

breeding season if the first male does not provide a high level of parental care, which includes feeding and nest defense. High nesting success is associated...

doi:10.1111/j.1095-8649.2007.01523.x. ISSN 1095-8649. Sagebakken (2012). Parental Care and Brood Reduction in a Pipefish. Goteborg. ISBN 978-91-628-8532-8...

The orange chromide (Pseudetroplus maculatus ; more commonly Etroplus maculatus) is a species of cichlid fish that is endemic to freshwater and brackish...

perform maintenance on the nest once the eggs are deposited. Males will care for the eggs and protect them until they hatch. They will chase off predators...

The common green bottle fly (Lucilia sericata) is a blowfly found in most areas of the world and is the most well-known of the numerous green bottle fly...