Pampoulie, Christophe; Lindström, Kai; Mary, Colette M. St. - In: Behavioral Ecology 15 (2004) 2, pp. 199-204
Traditionally, male parental effort and mate attraction effort are expected to be in conflict as they compete for the … present. We found no support for a trade-off between mate attraction and parental care. Indeed, taken together our results … suggest that males may use parental care as a courtship strategy and that males who invest in mate attraction also have higher …