Mate guarding and copulation behaviour in monogamous and polygynous blue tits: do males follow a best-of-a-bad-job strategy?

By B. Kempenaers, G. R. Verheyen, A. Dhondt. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2004

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Subfields: Developmental Biology, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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• Mate guarding, male attractiveness, and paternity under social monogamy (2005, background): “Similarly, most extrapair males in the blue tit Parus caeruleus did not lose paternity themselves (Kempenaers et al., 1997), and in this species poor-quality males who guard lose paternity to good-quality males despite their more intense mate-guarding behavior (Kempenaers et al., 1995).”