Sexual conflict over mating impacts the parental care behaviour and reproductive productivity of burying beetles, suggest researchers at the University of Exeter. These beetles have surprisingly complex parental care, similar in form to that provided by birds such as robins or blackbirds, with offspring begging to be fed by touching parents, who respond by regurgitating partially digested food. Both males and females provide parental care, but females ...
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