Parental control: ecology drives plasticity in parental response to offspring signals
S. Caro, A. C. Velasco, T. van Mastrigt, K. van Oers, A. S. Griffin, S. A. West, C. A. Hinde
The paper tests whether parental or offspring behavior drives variation in food allocation strategies in birds, finding that parents adjust their feeding preferences based on food availability.
bioRxiv · Nov 18, 2021Animal Behavior & Cognition