Pair-bonded Chirruping Wedgebills spend lots of time together; but they’re closer after breeding than during breeding

Parental separation in humans can deeply affect children. But in another monogamous pair-bonding species, it has no such effect.

Animals may assess the vocal traits of opponents during resource competition to determine threat, which is a combination of the fighting ability and m…

Ditching your partner doesn’t seem to work all that well for Seychelles warblers, even if they keep the house, which may be why not many do it.

In socially monogamous species, sexual selection involves both initial mate choice and mate switching. We found that divorce in Seychelles warblers occurs most among young and old males, and in pairs...

To the best of our knowledge, our study is the first to show that extreme rainfall increases the prevalence of divorce in a socially monogamous population. Our findings add to the growing literature ...

The early bird gets the worm, the bird in a heavy rainstorm gets divorced.

New research examines the link between extreme weather and divorce in a small monogamous tropical songbird, the Seychelles warbler. Concerningly, extreme rain and dry spells increased divorce rates.