To eat or to care? Factors shaping parental or infanticidal behaviours in male poison frogs during territory takeover
Abstract Background Parental care is costly for the caregiver. Therefore, parents should be able to discriminate between their own and conspecific offspring to avoid costly misdirected care. Infanticide, the intentional killing of conspecific young by adult individuals, occurs in many animal taxa. I...
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BMC
2025-07-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Zoology |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12983-025-00567-1 |
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