Female spotted sandpipers aggressively court males and, after mating, leave the clutch of young for the male to incubate. This sequence may be repeated several times with different males until no available males remain, forcing the female to incubate her last clutch. Which of the following terms best describes this behavior? a. polygyny b. polyandry c. promiscuity d. certainty of paternity

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Hi everyone here's our next problem, identify the false statement regarding the behavior of female spotted sandpipers. Well, let's recall briefly from our content video the female spotted sandpiper has a somewhat unusual strategy for maximizing her reproductive reproductive success. The challenge here is a female can only lay a clutch of four X. And this Klutz needs three weeks of incubation in a short nesting season. So her strategy is she aggressively courts a male when they mate and she lays her eggs, the male is left to incubate the eggs and then she goes on, finds another male lays another clutch, leaves him to incubate the eggs. She can lay up to five clutches in a season. So in this way leaving the male to handle that three week incubation period. She can lay multiple clutches now at some point um the males will actually run out because they'll all be used up incubating eggs. So the females left to incubate the last batch of eggs herself. Um Kind of a funny side note there. So let's look at our answer choices. We're looking for the false statement about this behavior. So let's look at choice A. She mates with more than one male. This is true. She mates with multiple males to be able to have more than one clutch in a season. So A. Is not our answer choice. B. Says she forces the male to incubate her clutch. Yes, this is true. Again that leaves her free to find another mate and lay more than one clutch of eggs. So B. Is not our answer choice. C says she preferably mates with a single dominant male. Well this is false because she just keeps mating with different males to have multiple clutches, not with a single dominant one. So Choice C. Is gonna be our answer as being a false statement, and we'll just take a last look at Choice D. To be thorough Choice D. Says she shows polyandry polyandry is the name for a female mating with more than one male, so that is a true statement and therefore also not our answer. So the false statement about the behavior of female spotted sandpipers is choice. See she preferably preferably mates with a single dominant male. Thanks for watching. See you in the next video.