Flexible Parental Care: Uniparental Incubation In Biparentally Incubating Shorebirds
M. Bulla, H. Pruter, H. Vitnerova, W. Tijsen, M. Sladeček, J. A. Alves, O. Gilg, B. Kempenaers
The paper shows that 8 out of 15 shorebird species can switch to uniparental incubation when one parent disappears, with 27% of these clutches successfully hatching.
bioRxiv · Apr 19, 2017Evolutionary Biology