Season-specific carryover of early life associations in a monogamous bird species

• Published in: Animal Behaviour
• Main Authors: Kurvers, Ralf H.J.M., Prox, Lea, Farine, Damien R., Jongeling, Coretta, Snijders, Lysanne
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: aggression; early life; familiarity; genetic relatedness; monogamous; pair formation; social associations; social relationships; Perseverance; Branta leucopsis
• Online Access: https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/season-specific-carryover-of-early-life-associations-in-a-monogam; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.03.016

Social relationships can have important fitness consequences. Although there is increasing evidence that social relationships carry over across contexts, few studies have investigated whether relationships formed early in life are carried over to adulthood. For example, juveniles of monogamous speci...