Exempel på beta male

• However, in trios, the female and alpha male invest more care in chicks than does the beta male.

• In some species of birds, males pair up in twos when courting, the beta male aiding the alpha male.

• Common chimpanzees have an omnivorous diet that includes troop hunting behaviour based on beta males being led by an alpha male.

• Females can spawn eggs in deeper crests, allowing beta males to fertilize some of the clutch without being harassed by the alpha male.

• There is only ever one alpha male, but, depending on species, there may be one or two beta males.

• Pay-to-stay occurs when beta males help alpha males and females in order to be allowed to stay in the nesting site.

• Also, beta males will continue to help the nest even when a new alpha male takes over the site to avoid being evicted.

• However, in some cases, females can be the largest, followed by the alpha male, and then beta males.

• However, this hypothesis has not yet been supported due to a lack of observation regarding alpha males punishing beta males for not caring for the offspring.

• Females can potentially direct the paternity of dominant, or alpha males and subordinate, or beta males by techniques such as cryptic female choice and sneaky copulation with subordinate males.

• Beta males are sometimes sub-adults - easily recognized, as their plumage retain female-like characters.

• Females can use their body size and wedge-shaped crests as copulation sites to direct male paternity when both alpha and beta males are present.

• This demonstrates that females might use the crevices as a strategy to attract both alpha and beta males to the nest.

• In territories in which females are able to escape from males, both the alpha and beta males share provisioning equally.

• The beta males remain in close proximity as well guarding the nesting territory from intruders or potential predators, such as rival males, or snakes and mongooses.