Philopatry is the tendency of an organism to stay in or habitually return to a particular area. The causes of philopatry are numerous, but natal philopatry...

Natal homing, or natal philopatry, is the homing process by which some adult animals that have migrated away from their juvenile habitats return back to...

among thousands of similar holes, after a trip of several kilometers. In philopatry, insects that hibernate are able to recall a specific location up to a...

to ponds. Toads, like many amphibians, exhibit breeding site fidelity (philopatry). Individual American toads return to their natal ponds to breed, making...

November 2016. Rohwer, Frank C.; Anderson, Michael G. (1988). "Female-Biased Philopatry, Monogamy, and the Timing of Pair Formation in Migratory Waterfowl". Current...

100. It can be extrapolated from the general primate behavior of female philopatry that female uakaries are also philopatric. This means that males leave...

that happened for such an evolutionary process to occur. The male-biased philopatry theory proposes that if human social groups were originally based around...

University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-79854-7. Shields, W. M. 1982. Philopatry, Inbreeding, and the Evolution of Sex. Print. 50–69. Meagher S, Penn DJ...

individuals. Female eiders frequently exhibit a high degree of natal philopatry, where they return to breed on the same island where they were hatched...

2011.01115.x. Stacey, Peter B. and Ligon, J. David; "The Benefits-of-Philopatry Hypothesis for the Evolution of Cooperative Breeding: Variation in Territory...