This tends to give rise to the more traditional male/female sex roles. But there is nothing inevitable about these familiar sex roles. Evolution favors whatever works, and for the jacana ...

the comb-crested jacana is a highly distinctive Australian native waterbird with some very unusual behaviours. If a male senses his chicks are in danger, he bundles them up under his wings and ...

This story appears in the May 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. What kind of dad stays home with the kids while their mother is out having sex? A wattled jacana dad—even when he knows ...

The male Jacana’s responsibility is to incubate the 4 black spotted brown eggs laid in the floating nest and to raise the chicks. Jacanas are not commonly hunted or used as a food resource and ...

A female northern jacana has a territory that encompasses the smaller territories of several males. During breeding season, she mates with each male and produces a clutch of eggs for each one. The ...