Evolution of parental care in dart poison frogs (Amphibia: Anura: Dendrobatidae)
By P. Weygoldt. 2009
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Dendrobatid frogs perform a unique mode of parental care, ranging from egg attendance and tadpole transport to tadpole feeding. It is hypothesized that a behaviour in which the egg attending parent remains with the cluch is the most primitive condition. In more advanced forms or parental care, the male is able to attend several clutches of eggs. Tadpole attendance and feeding, finally, started as deceit; the male induced the female to lay eggs into a bromeliad leaf axil already occupied by a larva. Costs and benefits of the different modes of parental care and possible alternative reproductive tactics are discussed.
Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change
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Citations in the corpus
- Phytotelm size in relation to parental care and mating strategies in two species of Peruvian poison frogs (2008, background): “In turn, biparental care may evolve if care by two parents provides a significant benefit to offspring survival relative to care by a single parent (Maynard Smith, 1977; Weygoldt, 1987).”
- Patterns of parental care in vertebrates (2012, background): “In Dendrobates pumlico, another frog species from Central America, both parents will transport their young on their backs from one small water body to another and the females feed the growing tadpoles daily with unfertilized trophic eggs (Weygoldt 1987).”