Parenting Behaviour
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- Created on: 11-03-14 17:33
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- Parenting Behaviour
- Protection
- One parent stays with the young to fend off predators.
- Elaborate nests are made to enclose the young (birds)
- Feeding
- If a species feeds and protects its young, it means both parents need to be involved
- Teaching Skills
- Certain behaviours are innate
- Oystercatchers (birds) get food by opening mussels, and it is a skill that takes months to learn
- Looking after young increases their survival
- Parental care increases the proportion of the young that survive
- Looking after young is less risky for the mothers than being pregnant - strain on body and difficult to escape predators
- The survival of an animal's genes into the next generation is more important than the survival of the animal itself
- Protection
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