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- adjective biology Occurring outside of a stable
pairing
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Examples
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From what I can glean from Google, there’s one more bit of evidence in favor of “good genes” and against “good parenting” in this particular case: Female ducks are also unusually uninterested in any kind of extrapair copulation; unlike, for instance, most female songbirds, who willingly mate with a large/bright/loud/otherwise sexy male when their own male’s out of sight.
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So it seems unlikely to me that they could effectively “punish” the female for extrapair copulation by neglecting her offspring.
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What is diplomatically referred to as 'non-paternity' or extrapair paternity occurs about 4% of the time average of wide-ranging estimates.
"$perm wail by donor." Ann Althouse 2007
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