Male House Sparrow feeding a fledgling.
#parentalcare #behaviouralecology
Urbanisation alters ecological conditions—food availability, predation risk, nesting resources, and microclimate.
Parental care, a key life-history trait, is expected to respond to these pressures, with direct consequences for offspring survival and fitness.
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Breaking bonds: maternal and offspring states relate to constraint-based brood donation in a seaduck
#Alloparenting #Ducks #ParentalCare
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Home is the foundation for healthy habits. Parental involvement, exercise, and balanced diets are key to preventing childhood obesity, building a stronger future. #HealthyKids #ParentalCare #ActiveLiving #GoodNutrition
Yep. No decs here. If we're hosting then will put some up but not this year. Too much else taking priority #ParentalCare.
Plan ahead, or wing it? How storm-petrel parents adjust food delivery to young chicks
#Bird #ParentalCare #Provisioning
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Can Hollywood Do For Paid Leave What Congress Hasn’t? triplepundit.com/2025/paid-parental-leave... #Congress #TriplePundit #ParentalCare #Policy #Parenting #Hollywood
Maternal care shapes an aposematic display and provides lifelong protection against predators
#ParentalCare #PredatorPreyInteractions #Beetle #Insect
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A juvenile great tit solves a foraging puzzle by pushing a sliding door to the left while being observed by two other juvenile birds. Image credit: Sonja Wild.
@sonjawild.bsky.social @galarconnieto.bsky.social & @lucymaplin.bsky.social show that young #GreatTits, which have limited #ParentalCare, learn to solve a foraging #puzzle socially, but rather than parents, siblings & non-parental adults are preferred role models @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/46JZn6n
A juvenile great tit solves a foraging puzzle by pushing a sliding door to the left while being observed by two other juvenile birds. Image credit: Sonja Wild.
@sonjawild.bsky.social @galarconnieto.bsky.social & @lucymaplin.bsky.social show that young #GreatTits, which have limited #ParentalCare, learn to solve a foraging #puzzle socially, but rather than parents, siblings & non-parental adults are preferred role models @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/46JZn6n
A juvenile great tit solves a foraging puzzle by pushing a sliding door to the left while being observed by two other juvenile birds. Image credit: Sonja Wild.
@sonjawild.bsky.social @galarconnieto.bsky.social & @lucymaplin.bsky.social show that young #GreatTits, which have limited #ParentalCare, learn to solve a foraging #puzzle socially, but rather than parents, siblings & non-parental adults are preferred role models @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/46JZn6n
Ellie Bladon tells us about #plasticity in metabolic division of labour during #parentalcare #socialfluids @socialtransfernet.bsky.social #ESEB2025
still editing bookshelf, but keeping sexy covers!
Macedo, Flinte, Abejanella & Chaboo. 2015. Three new reports of #subsocial #tortoisebeetles from South America (#Chrysomelidae: #Cassidinae). #leafbeetles #parentalcare
