Automated animal monitoring via radio‐frequency identification (RFID) technology allows
efficient and extensive data sampling of individual activity levels and is therefore commonly …

How much to invest in parental care and by who remain puzzling questions fomented by a
sexual conflict between parents. Negotiation that facilitates coordinated parental behaviour …

Sexual conflict over parental investment can result in suboptimal reproductive output. A
recent hypothesis suggests that equality in investment, and hence conflict resolution, may be …

Parent–offspring conflict over food allocation can be modeled using two theoretical
frameworks: passive (scramble competition) and active choice (signaling) resolution models …

Life-history theory predicts that optimal strategies of parental investment will depend on
ecological and social factors, such as current brood value and offspring need. Parental care …

Sexual conflict arises when two individuals invest in their common offspring because both
individuals benefit when their partner invests more. Conditional cooperation is a theoretical …

Biological hypotheses predicting patterns of offspring begging typically concern the
covariance with hunger and/or development at specific hierarchical levels. For example …

Offspring are selected to demand more resources than what is optimal for their parents to
provide, which results in a complex and dynamic interplay during parental care. Parent …

Parenting is both nurture and nature. The word “nurture” is a middle-English word derived
from the Old French “noureture”(nourishment), which is itself based on Latin “nutrire” …

Life history theory predicts that optimal strategies of parental investment will depend on
ecological and social factors such as current brood value and offspring need. Parental care …