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It has been proposed that mate guarding is the primary paternity insurance in birds, and only those species in which the male is compelled to leave his mate unattended during the fertile period resort to frequent copulation as a means of assuring paternity. A higher frequency of both extra-pair copulation (EPC) and extra-pair paternity (EPP) has been predicted in non-guarding species. These predictions...
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