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...

Parental care thus only evolves where it is adaptive. Types of parental care include maternal or paternal care, biparental care and alloparental care. Sexual...

precocial, in the form of unassisted paternal (male only) care. The next stage of evolution replaced this with bi-parental care (with a few exceptions). Ligon...

males and females (biparental care), females alone (exclusive maternal care) or males alone (exclusive paternal care). Care can be provided at any stage...

A father is the male parent of a child. Besides the paternal bonds of a father to his children, the father may have a parental, legal, and social relationship...

levels are a function of mating system (monogamy versus polygyny), paternal care, and male-male aggression in seasonal breeders. The pattern between...

mating system: paternal care, resource access, and mate choice; however, in humans, the main theoretical sources of monogamy are paternal care and extreme...

species, including humans, the father plays a significant role in caring for his young. Paternal caregiving has independently evolved multiple times in mammals...

; Dixon, J.; Kuwabara, K.; Takahashi, M. K. (2019). "Preoviposition paternal care in a fully aquatic giant salamander: nest cleaning by a den master"...

only to later "come alive" with painful results. Belostomatids show paternal care and these aspects have been studied extensively, among others involving...

species of the Belostomatidae family, the fathers take care of the offspring. Exclusive paternal care has been the focus of many studies done on this species...

in the Heteropachylinae. Maternal care in opiliones probably evolved due to natural selection, while paternal care appears to be the result of sexual...

Ross, C.N.; French, J.A.; Ortí, G. (2007). "Germ-line chimerism and paternal care in marmosets (Callithrix kuhlii)". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 104 (15):...

natural behavior. Male territorial defense is also considered a form of paternal care. The presence of a male climbing mantella in a well dissuades other...

organisms Maternal investment, female strategies in evolutionary biology Paternal care, care provided by male parents Parenting Maternity hospital Maternity (disambiguation)...

in search of resources such as food and shelter and/or in caring for young. Paternal care in monogamous species is commonly displayed through carrying...

reported in both New Zealand genera and appears to be an example of paternal care. Sorensenellinae is a subfamily of harvestmen in the family Triaenonychidae...

biology of the Omei mustache toad (Leptobrachium boringii): Polygamy and paternal care". Amphibia-Reptilia. 31 (2): 183–194. doi:10.1163/156853810791069092...

their own cubs rather than assist each other, and males display no paternal care. Spotted hyena society is matriarchal; females are larger than males...

plants and rocks placed across their aquarium, and displaying extensive paternal care with the males protecting the eggs until they hatch, and building a...

Shakespeare mentions Hecate also in King Lear. While disclaiming all his paternal care for Cordelia, Lear says, "The mysteries of Hecate and the night, By...

behaviour tied to paternal care decrease testosterone levels. In humans and other species that utilize allomaternal care, paternal investment in offspring...

Sociobiol. 11:7–11. Tallamy, D.W.; Walsh, E.; Peck, D.C. 2004. Revisiting Paternal Care in the Assassin Bug, Atopozelus pallens (Heteroptera: Reduviidae). Journal...

greater ability to provide paternal care than older males. In a cross-fostering experiment, foot color reflects paternal contribution to raising chicks;...

fitness (chance of survival). Most parental care in fish is paternal care, where the male primarily gives care to the eggs, and redlip blennies are not exception...

uncommon among mammals as a whole. They are typically monogamous, provide paternal care to their offspring, have reproductive cycles with lengthy proestral...

containing two families and over 60 species. Some species practice paternal care, in which males guard the eggs. Platydesmidans have a flattened body...

by the newcomer. The new male will care for the old male's eggs, a behavior called allopaternal care. Paternal care of the eggs by the male includes rubbing...

that males also engage in parental care, building nests for their offspring. Parental care among sirens is paternal due to external fertilization. In S...

orbs From whom we do exist and cease to be— Here I disclaim all my paternal care, Propinquity, and property of blood, And as a stranger to my heart and...