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Experimentally reduced male attractiveness increases parental care in the pied flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca
Authors:Sanz  Juan Jose
Institution:Departamento de Ecología Evolutiva, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), José Gutierrez Abascal 2, E-28006 Madrid, Spain
Abstract:This study reports effects of experimental manipulations ofreproductive effort and the size of the male's white foreheadpatch (a secondary sexual trait), on provisioning rates, reproductivesuccess, and parental breeding dispersal distance in the piedflycatcher, Ficedula hypoleuca. Parents caring for enlargedbroods resulting from manipulated clutches provisioned nestsat higher rates than parents with reduced broods. Males with a reduced forehead patch fed their nestlings more in relationto males with an unmanipulated forehead patch, and their youngfledging with a longer tarsi. This suggests that males witha reduced attractiveness may perceive their own attractivenessand they devote more time available for parental effort given their poorer prospects in male contest competition and/or femaleattraction for extra-pair copulations. However, their femalesdid not alter their provisioning effort and this runs counterto both the differential allocation and the partner-compensationhypotheses. An artificial decrease in a male secondary sexualtrait led to a wider breeding dispersal distance between successiveyears.
Keywords:attractiveness  Ficedula hypoleuca  parental care  pied flycatcher  secondary sexual trait  
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