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- adjective biology Of or pertaining to
philopatry
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As bonobos are male-philopatric, i.e. males remain in their natal group, and adult females occupy high dominance status, maternal support extends into adulthood and females have the leverage to intervene in male conflicts.
Primates in the News 2010
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However, despite philopatric larval dispersal and fission events in the species, no single population showed inbreeding, and the contribution of clonality to the population makeup was minor (only ca. 4%).
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Alternatively, male aggression may reduce female fecundity indirectly due to a male trade-off between time spent on courtship (and copulation) and defense of a territory leading to a lower insemination rate of philopatric females
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Leah R. Gerber et al. 2010
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Vigilant parenting may also explain the relationship between female aggression and prospective fecundity of philopatric females.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Leah R. Gerber et al. 2010
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The structure of the S. lophyropoda populations at all spatial scales examined confirms the philopatric larval dispersal that has been reported.
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As bonobos are male-philopatric, i.e. males remain in their natal group, and adult females occupy high dominance status, maternal support extends into adulthood and females have the leverage to intervene in male conflicts.
Primates in the News 2010
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It also presents a strong patchy distribution, philopatric larval dispersal, and both sexual and asexual reproduction.
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In the case of scaup, which are generally philopatric, pair counts in year t+1 should be partially dependent on pair counts in year t.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Keith A. Hobson et al. 2009
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And it’s philopatric, in the jargon of ecology—that is, home-loving, disinclined to make adventurous explorations of new territory.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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And it’s philopatric, in the jargon of ecology—that is, home-loving, disinclined to make adventurous explorations of new territory.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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