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Group sex in the acorn woodpecker: Who comes out on top, and why?

  • aUniversity of California, Berkeley
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Abstract

Family-based societies are frequently faced with the conundrum of balancing the competing reproductive interests of closely related group members. How this is accomplished is the subject of considerable current research, and is epitomised in the complexities of a bizarre species of woodpecker, common in California's oak woodlands.