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In species where males provide the bulk of the parental care, males are most likely to

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This question is incomplete. The options are:
a. be choosy about which females they mate with.
b. be indiscriminant about which females they mate with.
c. mate with as many females as possible.
d. compete to mate with choosy females.

The answer is a: be choosy about which females they mate with.
This is because the male would in this case be investing a lot of energy in parenting its young, and would therefore adopt a strategy of mating with one or very few females. It therefore makes sense that the male would be choosy in regards to its mate.
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