Partnerships in Birds

This book will fill you in on the most up-to-date scientific findings about monogamy ... excellent for students of the natural sciences and a must for professionals in this field.

• INITIAL PERSPECTIVES ; 1. Introduction: pair bonds and partnerships ; 2. The battle of the sexes and the origins of monogamy ; 3. The model family ; CONTINUOUS PARTNERSHIPS ; 4. Long-term monogamy in a river specialist - the Blue Duck ; 5. Do Barnacle Geese benefit from life-long monogamy? ; 6. Mate fidelity in swans ; 7. Breeding partnrship in two New World jays ; 8. Partnerships in promiscuous Splendid Fairy-wrens ; PART-TIME PARTNERSHIPS ; 9. Divorce in the European Blackbird ; 10. Mate fidelity and divorce in ptarmigan ; 11. Causes and consequences of long-term partnerships in Cassin's Auklets ; 12. Monogamy in a long-lived seabird: the Short-tailed Shearwaters ; 13. Between and within-population variation in mate fidelity in the Great Tit ; 14. Monogamy in the Sparrowhawk ; 15. Mate fidelity in penguins ; 16. Causes and consequences of mate fidelity in Red-billed Gulls ; 17. Dispersal, demography, and the persistence of partnerships in Indigo Buntings ; Concluding Perspectives ; 18. Monogamy and sperm competition in birds ; 19. Mate fidelity and divorce in monogamous birds ; Author index ; Subject index