New paper out in Biological Reviews📝🚨
When trying to explain why female birds engage in extra-pair copulations/paternity, we mostly focus on the benefits.
But what about the costs? Should we not consider the downsides of the behavior we try to understand? 🧵
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Extra-pair behaviours – reproductive behaviours, including those related to copulation and paternity of offspring, amongst animals outside of a social pair bond – have long intrigued behavioural ecol...
