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promiscuity
(redirected from Extra-pair copulations)

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promiscuity
Social medicine The engaging in multiple and indiscriminate sexual relationships


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For females who are in a partnership, ovulatory shifts toward extra-pair copulations could be triggered by a general change in females' tendency to be involved in more risky behavior.
The female warblers engaged in extra-pair copulations with neighboring males, but only if the neighbor sang more songs than the female's steady mate.
Extra-pair copulations (EPC) and cuckoldry of the social partner (the male providing parental care to the offspring of another male) is in fact much more common than once believed.
 
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