Higher maternal care and tolerance in more experienced giraffe mothers
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/60460709:41340/20:83824 RIV/61988987:17310/20:A21025GF
Result on the web
<a href="https://vuzv.cz/_privat/20051.pdf" target="_blank" >https://vuzv.cz/_privat/20051.pdf</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10211-019-00328-4" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10211-019-00328-4</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Higher maternal care and tolerance in more experienced giraffe mothers
Original language description
Maternal investment and maternal care provided by mammalian females can change during their ontogeny. Differences may be related to the age and/or experience (parity) of the female. Several hypotheses have been postulated to explain changes in the rate of maternal care of females during their lifetime. The residual reproductive value hypothesis supposes a higher rate of maternal care in older and more experienced females, in contrast the targeted reproductive effort hypothesis predicts lower levels of maternal care in older and/or more experienced females. To test these hypotheses we investigated nursing bout frequency and time devoted to nursing as predictors of the rate of maternal care, and rate of successful nursing bouts as a predictor of maternal investment, in captive giraffe (22 females, 47 calves in four zoos). We also considered the high rate of allonursing (nursing of non-filial calves) which appeared in all herds. The nursing and allonursing bout frequency as well as the total time devoted to nursing and allonursing increased with increasing parity and age of the female, thus supporting the residual reproductive value hypothesis. In addition, maternal experience of individual females in terms of parity rather than age was responsible for variation in maternal behaviour. This suggests that variation depends on individual experiences.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10614 - Behavioral sciences biology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Acta Ethologica
ISSN
0873-9749
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
23
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
7
Pages from-to
1-7
UT code for WoS article
000526061800001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85076211931