Why Great Tits get 'divorced'

The likelihood that a pair of Great Tits will stay together after they first breed is influenced by the social environment in which their relationship is formed, a new study says.

Much like humans, birds tend to be socially monogamous: they find a partner to mate with and remain socially exclusive with this partner. Also like humans, they sometimes cheat on their partners or separate to copulate with a different mate, and this often happens when the social partnership is sub-optimal.

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