Animal Behavior & CognitionbioRxiv
Parental control: ecology drives plasticity in parental response to offspring signals
S. Caro, A. C. Velasco, T. van Mastrigt…·C. A. Hinde
The paper tests whether parental or offspring behavior drives variation in food allocation strategies in birds, finding that parents adjust their feeding preferences based on food availability.
DOI 10.1093/beheco/araf058