Parental investment, potential reproductive rates, and mating system in the strawberry dart-poison frog, Dendrobates pumilio

@article{Prhl1999ParentalIP,
  title={Parental investment, potential reproductive rates, and mating system in the strawberry dart-poison frog, Dendrobates pumilio},
  author={Heike Pr{\"o}hl and Walter H{\"o}dl},
  journal={Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology},
  year={1999},
  volume={46},
  pages={215-220}
}
  • H. PröhlW. Hödl
  • Published 1 September 1999
  • Biology
  • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Abstract We studied the effect of relative parental investment on potential reproductive rates (PRRs) to explain sex differences in selectivity and competition in the dart-poison frog Dendrobates pumilio. We recorded the reproductive behavior of this species in a Costa Rican lowland rainforest for almost 6 months. Females spent more time on parental care than males, and `time out' estimates suggest that PRRs of males are much higher than than those of females, rendering females the limiting sex… 
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