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Mate change in socially monogamous species can be explained by adaptive and non-adaptive hypotheses. Adaptive hypotheses describe a mate change as a strategy to correct for initial mate choice and to improve reproductive success: the ‘incompatibility’ hypothesis states that mate change is initiated by both mates, whereas in the ‘better option’ hypothesis, one partner initiates the mate change. In...
As dispersal is a dangerous part of an individual's life, its timing is important to increase the chances of survival and successful establishment of a territory. We investigated factors affecting the timing of natal dispersal in the Eurasian beaver, Castor fiber, a territorial, monogamous, long-lived mammal, using data from an 18-year individual-based study (1998–2015). We tested hypotheses about...
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