In biology, paternal care is parental investment provided by a male to his own offspring. It is a complex social behaviour in vertebrates associated with...

Parental care thus only evolves where it is adaptive. Types of parental care include maternal or paternal care, biparental care and alloparental care. Sexual...

precocial, in the form of unassisted paternal (male only) care. The next stage of evolution replaced this with bi-parental care (with a few exceptions). Ligon...

A father is the male parent of a child. Besides the paternal bonds of a father to his children, the father may have a parental, legal, and social relationship...

females (called biparental care), females alone (exclusive maternal care) or males alone (exclusive paternal care). Care can be provided at any stage...

species, including humans, the father plays a significant role in caring for his young. Paternal caregiving has independently evolved multiple times in mammals...

on fungi. B. lecontii shows paternal care of eggs throughout their incubation, which may last 3-4 weeks. This parental care does not extent to young after...

species of the Belostomatidae family, the fathers take care of the offspring. Exclusive paternal care has been the focus of many studies done on this species...

mating system: paternal care, resource access, and mate choice; however, in humans, the main theoretical sources of monogamy are paternal care and extreme...

levels are a function of mating system (monogamy versus polygyny), paternal care, and male-male aggression in seasonal breeders. The pattern between...

in the Heteropachylinae. Maternal care in opiliones probably evolved due to natural selection, while paternal care appears to be the result of sexual...

in search of resources such as food and shelter and/or in caring for young. Paternal care in monogamous species is commonly displayed through carrying...

reported in both New Zealand genera and appears to be an example of paternal care. Sorensenellinae is a subfamily of harvestmen in the family Triaenonychidae...

organisms Maternal investment, female strategies in evolutionary biology Paternal care, care provided by male parents Parenting Maternity hospital Maternity (disambiguation)...

; Dixon, J.; Kuwabara, K.; Takahashi, M. K. (2019). "Preoviposition paternal care in a fully aquatic giant salamander: nest cleaning by a den master"...

natural behavior. Male territorial defense is also considered a form of paternal care. The presence of a male climbing mantella in a well dissuades other...

only to later "come alive" with painful results. Belostomatids show paternal care and these aspects have been studied extensively, among others involving...

November 2020. Ross C, French J, Ortí G (2007). "Germ-line chimerism and paternal care in marmosets (Callithrix kuhlii)". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 104 (15):...

getting food while away from their offspring. Many species of fish with paternal care exhibit total or partial clutch cannibalism. This is likely in order...

that males also engage in parental care, building nests for their offspring. Parental care among sirens is paternal due to external fertilization. In S...

Shakespeare mentions Hecate also in King Lear. While disclaiming all his paternal care for Cordelia, Lear says, "The mysteries of Hecate and the night, By...

species rarely spend time with their families, and there is a lack of paternal care towards the offspring. Elephant shrews (Rhynchocyon chrysopygus and...

behaviour tied to paternal care decrease testosterone levels. In humans and other species that utilize allomaternal care, paternal investment in offspring...

greater ability to provide paternal care than older males. In a cross-fostering experiment, foot color reflects paternal contribution to raising chicks;...

uncommon among mammals as a whole. They are typically monogamous, provide paternal care to their offspring, have reproductive cycles with lengthy proestral...

orbs From whom we do exist and cease to be— Here I disclaim all my paternal care, Propinquity, and property of blood, And as a stranger to my heart and...

plants and rocks placed across their aquarium, and displaying extensive paternal care with the males protecting the eggs until they hatch, and building a...

devotes to nest tending, serving as an indicator of ability to invest in paternal care and/or parental experience. Filial cannibalism is when parents consume...

Alexander I who raised from ashes and adorned with many memorials of paternal care this former capital that had been committed to the mercy of fire during...

and Peninsular Malaysia. Some populations have been found to exhibit paternal care in response to predation by egg-eating snakes. Though some females are...