Accents

Dunnocks are birds of the passerine order. An exciting television series can be filmed about the family life of dunnocks. Love triangles, land disputes, polygamy and "polyandry", adultery - all the necessary collisions are present. Here are just the abduction of a child, which is indispensable for a real soap opera, in accentuates it replaces the vulgar infanticide. The male Accentor can be married to two or three females at the same time, and the female to two or three males, so some families include several males and several females at once. The relationship between two males forming a family with one female is subject to strict subordination. During the mating period, both inseparably follow the female, but the dominant male suppresses any attempts of the rival to approach the female. Accentor male feeds chicks only if he is sure that they are his own children. If at a strictly defined time on the eve of laying, the male, oppressed by the rival, did not have the opportunity to mate with the female, then his thirst for infanticide flares up, and he is only waiting for an opportunity. To prevent such a course of events, the females of the Accentor show remarkable ingenuity and enterprise. They try to elude the family despot and reciprocate their timid lover, thereby enlisting his support in the difficult task of raising offspring.