Brood size of Zebra Finches Taeniopygia guttata was manipulated in an attempt to identify a trade-off between current and subsequent reproduction in a laboratory situation with ad libitum food ...

Zebra finches may have the potential to become brood parasites. Keith Gerstung, CC BY-SA Species must reproduce to survive, and animals have found unique ways of achieving this.

Journal Reference: Holger Schielzeth, Elisabeth Bolund. Patterns of conspecific brood parasitism in zebra finches. Animal Behaviour, 2010; DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.03.006 ...

Original work: Holger Schielzeth and Elisabeth Bolund Patterns of conspecific brood parasitism in zebra finches Animal behaviour. Published online April 15, 2010 (DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.03.006) ...

Zebra finches breed in colonies and each pair cares for their own offspring. However, brood parasitism within the same species is relatively common, in captive populations as well as in the wild in ...

William C. Lemon, The Energetics of Lifetime Reproductive Success in the Zebra Finch Taeniopygia guttata, Physiological Zoology, Vol. 66, No. 6 (Nov. - Dec., 1993 ...