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SUBMITTER: Cheng YR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6731476 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cheng Yi-Ru YR Rubenstein Dustin R DR Shen Sheng-Feng SF
Biology letters 20190807 8
In cooperatively breeding species, social conflict is typically assumed to underlie destructive behaviours like infanticide. However, an untested alternative hypothesis in birds is that infanticide in the form of egg tossing may simply be a parental response to partial nest predation representing a life-history trade-off. We examined egg tossing behaviour in the colonial and cooperatively breeding grey-capped social weaver (Pseudonigrita arnaudi), a plural breeder in which pairs nest separately, ...[more]