Male Promiscuity and Female Adultery by the Rook Corvus frugilegus
- 31 August 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Ornis Scandinavica
- Vol. 14 (3), 175-179
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3676150
Abstract
Promiscuity has been shown to occur among many colonial, monogamous bird species, among them the rook C. frugilegus. The male rook achieves a selective advantage in adapting a mixed reproductive strategy, i.e., beside being strongly monogamous it also is a promiscuous bird. The young females copulated significantly more often with promiscuous males than the old females, at least during the period when the eggs had the greatest chance of becoming fertilized. The female rook may benefit by accepting several males as fathers for their offspring and may copulate willingly with some of the promiscuous males.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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