Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Flexible Parental Care: Uniparental Incubation In Biparentally Incubating Shorebirds
M. Bulla, H. Pruter, H. Vitnerova…·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.