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Exploring the diverse mating systems of birds, this book examines courtship, nest-building, and parenting strategies across species. It highlights unique behaviors, such as male childcare in wattled jacanas and brood parasitism in cuckoos. The text discusses the benefits of promiscuity among dunnocks and the necessity of monogamy for some species. It also showcases elaborate mating displays by male birds and the impressive bower-building skills of bowerbirds. Beautifully illustrated, it celebrates the rich variety of avian reproductive strategies worldwide.
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Bird Love, Wenfei Tong
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- Rok vydania
- 2020
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- Titul
- Bird Love
- Podtitul
- The Family Life of Birds
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autori
- Wenfei Tong
- Vydavateľ
- Princeton University Press
- Rok vydania
- 2020
- Väzba
- pevná
- Počet strán
- 192
- ISBN13
- 9780691188843
- Série
- Hodnotenie
- 4,15 z 5
- Anotácia
- Exploring the diverse mating systems of birds, this book examines courtship, nest-building, and parenting strategies across species. It highlights unique behaviors, such as male childcare in wattled jacanas and brood parasitism in cuckoos. The text discusses the benefits of promiscuity among dunnocks and the necessity of monogamy for some species. It also showcases elaborate mating displays by male birds and the impressive bower-building skills of bowerbirds. Beautifully illustrated, it celebrates the rich variety of avian reproductive strategies worldwide.