Parental care is the energy investment in looking after the progeny to ensure reproductive success, at the sacrifice of feeding, mating, and being save. The option is B. Courtship displays.
Parenting is a caring behavior chosen by some species in which parents invest energy in looking after their offspring to ensure their survival and hence, their reproductive success.
K-strategists are the species that perform parenting.
Animals must optimize the invested energy in growing, surviving, reproducing, and leaving fertile offspring. They must ensure the perpetuity of the species. The best way to do it is by reaching sexual maturity, mating, and leaving progeny that also reaches their fertile age. So species choose how to do it and where to invest more energy.
K strategists take care of their offspring and invest too much energy in doing it.
And so many other things that require energy investment.
So, when parents take care of their offspring, the energy usually destined for survival and mating activities is now destined for parenting.
Often, parents can not feed because they can not leave their offspring alone. They face predators putting themselves in danger of being hurt. They can not mate even if they are in the reproductive season.
According to this framework, the correct option is Courtship displays. Option B. This is a typical pre-mating behavior in which sexual selection plays a significan role.
The behaviors of parental care are
A. Feeding
C. Protection from predators
D. Incubation of eggs
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