Parental Behaviour Strategies

Question 1

What are the different parental strategies?

Answer 1

• Biparental
• Intensive
• No parental investment
• Parent-offspring bonding
  -Imprinting (filial and sexual)

Question 2

What is biparental?

Answer 2

Biparental care occurs when male and female parents cooperate to provide care for their joint offspring.
Although biparental care is relatively rare, it has evolved repeatedly in birds, mammals, fish, amphibians and insects.

Question 3

What is intensive?

Answer 3

Animals who hunt for their food, like bears or Red-tailed Hawks, for instance, must be taught how to do so by their parents, which can take weeks or months.
Predator species like red fox and red-tailed hawks are intensive parents. They spend all day caring for their altricial babies.

Question 4

What is no parental investment?

Answer 4

No parental investment is when the offspring are not cared for after birthing/hatching. They are on their own and are expected to manage through life without parents, mostly relying on instinct.

Question 5

What is parental- offspring bonding?

Answer 5

Parent-offspring
bonding involves the bonding between the parent and its offspring and can sometimes involve the offspring imprinting on the parent.
The parent releases oxytocin in response, which strengthens the bond.

Question 6

What is imprinting?

Answer 6

Filial – A social attachment is established between a young animal and an object that is typically (although not necessarily) a parent.
Sexual - A form of learned mate preference for a trait that an individual has observed in its population.