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Título: | When parents play favorites: brood demand shapes parental preference for offspring UV color |
Autor: | García-Campa, Jorge CSIC ORCID; Müller, Wendt; Rodríguez-Juncá, Alicia; Morales, Judith | Palabras clave: | Offspring quality signals Parental care Parental favoritism Parent-offspring conflict UV coloration |
Fecha de publicación: | 18-may-2023 | Editor: | Oxford University Press | Citación: | Behavioral Ecology 34(4): 700-707 (2023) | Resumen: | Parents might initially produce more offspring than they might be able to raise. However, when offspring demand exceeds their parents´ rearing capacity, parents might shift care towards the offspring which yield greater fitness returns to achieve their optimal brood size via brood reduction. Such favoritism could rely on offspring signaling traits if these inform parents about offspring quality and hence about the pay-offs of their investment. Here we investigated whether favoritism of blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus) parents for an offspring signal (i.e., ultraviolet (UV) plumage coloration) varies with brood demand. To test this, we experimentally blocked the UV reflectance of yellow breast feathers in half of the nestlings of each brood, and then we sequentially performed two opposing brood size manipulations to vary nestling demand below or above parental rearing capacity. In reduced broods, nestlings begged overall less intensely and gained more body mass, supporting that parental rearing capacities sufficed to satisfy brood demand. Moreover, in reduced broods, UV-blocked nestlings (i.e., low-quality offspring) were fed and prey-tested more often. Yet, they begged more than control nestlings, suggesting that they were perhaps treated differently by other family members or which they may exploit parental preferences beyond actual need (at least in reduced nests). Parents flexibly shifted their feeding rate and favoritism in response to short-term changes in family size, as there was no parental preference for enlarged broods. Such flexible parental feeding rules may allow parents to gain the upper hand in parent-offspring conflict. However, we did not find evidence that parental favoritism facilitated brood reduction, at least in conditions where demand was temporally enhanced. | Versión del editor: | https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arad040 | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/331938 | DOI: | 10.1093/beheco/arad040 | ISSN: | 1465-7279 |
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