Parenting behaviour: babbling bird teachers?
One of humankind's most distinctive characteristics is our extended and complex period of child dependency. New research on a noisy African bird may help to shed light on how our unusual parenting behavior evolved.
Rapaport
Lisa G
LG
Clemson University, Department of Biological Sciences, 132 Long Hall, Clemson, South Carolina 29634, USA. lrapapo@clemson.edu
D000367:Age Factors; D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D005075:Biological Evolution; D006801:Humans; D016487:Parenting; D020308:Songbirds; D014828:Vocalization, Animal