{"id":280732,"date":"2017-02-28T12:51:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T16:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=948281a85ef85d943da9abe383ad80ff"},"modified":"2017-02-28T12:51:51","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T16:51:51","slug":"male-poison-frogs-become-cannibals-after-taking-over-territories-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=280732","title":{"rendered":"Male poison frogs become cannibals after taking over territories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Systematic &#8216;infanticide&#8217; of unrelated young occurs in several animal species. For carnivores and primates, infanticidal actions are mainly sexually motivated. A study in Scientific Reports by researchers of Vetmeduni Vienna has shown for the first time that also male poison frogs selectively eat other males&#8217; offspring\u2014after having taken over their rivals&#8217; territories. They were thus able to demonstrate that even simple decision rules can mediate a complex behavioral pattern such as parental care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Systematic &#8216;infanticide&#8217; of unrelated young occurs in several animal species. For carnivores and primates, infanticidal actions are mainly sexually motivated. A study in Scientific Reports by researchers of Vetmeduni Vienna has shown for the first time that also male poison frogs selectively eat other males&#8217; offspring&mdash;after having taken over their rivals&#8217; territories. They were thus able to demonstrate that even simple decision rules can mediate a complex behavioral pattern such as parental care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280733,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280732\/revisions\/280733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}