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- Philopatry is the tendency of an organism to stay in or habitually return to a particular area. The causes of philopatry are numerous, but natal philopatry...
- Natal homing, or natal philopatry, is the homing process by which some adult animals that have migrated away from their juvenile habitats return to their...
- Nest-site fidelity may be due to one of three reasons, or a combination: Philopatry is the tendency for adult bees to excavate a nest near their natal nest;...
- Procellariids display high levels of philopatry, exhibiting both natal philopatry and site fidelity. Natal philopatry, the tendency of a bird to breed close...
- among thousands of similar holes, after a trip of several kilometers. In philopatry, insects that hibernate are able to recall a specific location up to a...
- groups ranging from 10 to 85 individuals, with groups exhibiting female philopatry and males emigrating from natal group at puberty. Crab-eating macaques...
- factors, such as low rates of dispersal or returning to the spawning area (philopatry), can cause a particular group of organisms to have high speciation rates...
- that happened for such an evolutionary process to occur. The male-biased philopatry theory proposes that if human social groups were originally based around...
- undisturbed eastern chimpanzee community that displa**** substantial bi****ual philopatry. Despite an increased inbreeding risk incurred by females who do not dis****...
- University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-79854-7. Shields, W. M. 1982. Philopatry, Inbreeding, and the Evolution of ****. Print. 50–69. Meagher S, Penn DJ...