Paternal Care in Canids
Paternal care has never been reported as absent in any canid species, and some form of care has been seen in 18 of the 36 species in the family. Food provisioning, active defense of the young, and protecting young by remaining at the den as the female forages appear to be the commonest forms of male...
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fthighwire:oai:open-archive.highwire.org:icbiol:25/3/853 2023-05-15T13:19:50+02:00 Paternal Care in Canids MALCOLM, JAMES R. 1985-01-01 00:00:00.0 text/html http://icb.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/25/3/853 https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/25.3.853 en eng Oxford University Press http://icb.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/25/3/853 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icb/25.3.853 Copyright (C) 1985, The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Articles TEXT 1985 fthighwire https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/25.3.853 2013-05-27T13:08:27Z Paternal care has never been reported as absent in any canid species, and some form of care has been seen in 18 of the 36 species in the family. Food provisioning, active defense of the young, and protecting young by remaining at the den as the female forages appear to be the commonest forms of male care. In addition males may groom, retrieve, play and rest with young. Male canids are rarely involved in den selection or construction. The effect on the fitness of the young of indirect forms of male care such as provisioning the female and territory defense are hard to assess. Quantitative studies of male provisioning in seven species offer few generalizations. In two species ( Canis aureus, C mesomelas ) females provided more food to the young than males; in one species ( Alopex lagopus ) the pair contributed equally to feeding young, and in four species ( Canis lupus, Vulpes vulpes, Chrysocyon brachyurus, and Lycaon pictus ), males provided more food than females. Much more data are required, particularly from field studies, before patterns of variation can be interpreted. Text Alopex lagopus Canis lupus HighWire Press (Stanford University) American Zoologist 25 3 853 856 |
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Paternal care has never been reported as absent in any canid species, and some form of care has been seen in 18 of the 36 species in the family. Food provisioning, active defense of the young, and protecting young by remaining at the den as the female forages appear to be the commonest forms of male care. In addition males may groom, retrieve, play and rest with young. Male canids are rarely involved in den selection or construction. The effect on the fitness of the young of indirect forms of male care such as provisioning the female and territory defense are hard to assess. Quantitative studies of male provisioning in seven species offer few generalizations. In two species ( Canis aureus, C mesomelas ) females provided more food to the young than males; in one species ( Alopex lagopus ) the pair contributed equally to feeding young, and in four species ( Canis lupus, Vulpes vulpes, Chrysocyon brachyurus, and Lycaon pictus ), males provided more food than females. Much more data are required, particularly from field studies, before patterns of variation can be interpreted. |
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