Question

Mammals generally care for their young. Most turtles abandon their young. What term describes both of these behaviors?

Answer 1

One way to describe this is using the term Parental Investment.


Therefore, you would say that mammals have a high parental investment and turtles, as other raptiles, have a low parental investment.

This is the term used in evolutionary biology, where parental investment is one of the ways that the survival of the species is described (a species can have a high parental investment or numerous offspring)