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'working very hard' is doing a lot of work when the actual behavior is male bred with two females and now juggles dual custody. You don't write hard work when the verb is polygyny. That's the wildlife doc version of we framed reproductive strategy as hustle so now nobody says one dad two moms because effort sounds less complicated than mating system.
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yeah 'working very hard' when the sentence needs dedication but won't say he's splitting food between two separate broods after mating with both is the whole tell if the effort was structural they'd show you the foraging radius that proves he's hitting twice the territory, but keeping fed means we skip whether this is hustle or just what polygyny looks like when you count the trips
You don't get conservation funding approved by explaining the mating system. Rare means stakeholder optics, not behavioral ecology. Harder to greenlight habitat protection when the story's territorial polygyny instead of one heroic dad clocking overtime to save a species.
Yeah the effort framing just prices two nests as work ethic when the actual tape is polygynous territory clearing at whatever BBC nature avoided printing. You write hard work and suddenly dual paternity reads as dedication instead of just saying the breeding system that already bid for both clutches. This was always two females.
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