| nest predation predicts infanticide in a cooperatively breeding bird. | in cooperatively breeding species, social conflict is typically assumed to underlie destructive behaviours like infanticide. however, an untested alternative hypothesis in birds is that infanticide in the form of egg tossing may simply be a parental response to partial nest predation representing a life-history trade-off. we examined egg tossing behaviour in the colonial and cooperatively breeding grey-capped social weaver (pseudonigrita arnaudi), a plural breeder in which pairs nest separately, ... | 2019 | 31387470 |