Effect of Mate Removal on Current and Subsequent Parental Care in the Convict Cichlid (Pisces: Cichlidae)

Ethology ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 97 (4) ◽  
pp. 265-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert J. Lavery ◽  
Stéphan G. Reebs
Behaviour ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 129 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 63-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
James D. Kieffer ◽  
Robert J. Lavery

AbstractAnimals may provide more care for their young under certain environmental conditions. For instance, if food is plentiful parents may invest more in the current brood than if food is scarce, assuming that food abundance is correlated with parent and offspring condition. In this experiment, we manipulated food levels (low vs high) for both parents and offspring to determine if parental care is influenced by parental and/or offspring condition in the convict cichlid, Cichlasoma nigrofasciatum. Parents which were fed a higher ration gained weight, whereas parents fed a lower ration lost weight. Similarly, young which were fed a higher ration were significantly larger than young fed a lower ration. Parents which were fed a higher ration defended their brood more vigorously than parents fed a lower ration. Offspring condition had little effect on parental care. Furthermore, females consistently invested more than males. The results show that parental convict cichlids adjust care in response to their own food supply rather than that of their offspring.


1999 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergey V. Budaev ◽  
Dmitry D. Zworykin ◽  
Andrei D. Mochek

1975 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vera Aber Krischik ◽  
Peter G. Weber

1995 ◽  
Vol 5 (12) ◽  
pp. 1689-1695 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Thoms ◽  
Peter Donahue ◽  
Doug Hunter ◽  
Naeem Jan

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gretchen F. Wagner ◽  
Emeline Mourocq ◽  
Michael Griesser

Biparental care systems are a valuable model to examine conflict, cooperation, and coordination between unrelated individuals, as the product of the interactions between the parents influences the fitness of both individuals. A common experimental technique for testing coordinated responses to changes in the costs of parental care is to temporarily handicap one parent, inducing a higher cost of providing care. However, dissimilarity in experimental designs of these studies has hindered interspecific comparisons of the patterns of cost distribution between parents and offspring. Here we apply a comparative experimental approach by handicapping a parent at nests of five bird species using the same experimental treatment. In some species, a decrease in care by a handicapped parent was compensated by its partner, while in others the increased costs of care were shunted to the offspring. Parental responses to an increased cost of care primarily depended on the total duration of care that offspring require. However, life history pace (i.e., adult survival and fecundity) did not influence parental decisions when faced with a higher cost of caring. Our study highlights that a greater attention to intergenerational trade-offs is warranted, particularly in species with a large burden of parental care. Moreover, we demonstrate that parental care decisions may be weighed more against physiological workload constraints than against future prospects of reproduction, supporting evidence that avian species may devote comparable amounts of energy into survival, regardless of life history strategy.


2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-118
Author(s):  
Li Yanling ◽  
David E. Scharff

The following case presents the way that overtly oedipal identification in a young woman covered failure in early parental care and discontent between her parents. The case was presented by Li Yanling to her supervision group, and the commentary and elaboration have been gathered from comments from the entire group of advanced supervisees, all of whom were discussion group leaders in the Beijing Continuous Program in Psychoanalytic Couple and Family Therapy.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 67-74
Author(s):  
Nodira Safikhodzhaeva ◽  

This article discusses the establishment of orphanages in Ferghana Yalley, the state protection of orphans and children deprived of parental care, and the conditions created for them


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