Dino Dads, so bezeichnet unter anderem Thomas Gesterkamp in seinem Buch ‚Die neuen Väter zwischen Kind und Karriere’ die Männer und Vorgesetzten – Väter, denen die Gattin den Rücken frei hält und die durch ihr traditionelles Rollenverständnis die Unternehmenskultur prägen.

Dass die Bezeichnung ähnlich wie bei dem anderen Vergleich mit dem Tierreich, den Raben, biologisch betrachtet nicht gerechtfertigt ist, machen neuere Untersuchungen über die unter anderem die Washington Post berichtet, deutlich:

‘Did oviraptor daddies look forward to trips to the park?

Alas, that’s a question the fossil record can’t answer. But it does appear that many dinosaur fathers spent an awful lot of time around the nest watching the kids.

Using statistical comparisons with birds and an analysis of leg bones found atop nests of unhatched eggs, a team of paleontologists has concluded that at least three types of dinosaur males did the brooding and incubating.

The study, being published today in the journal Science, continues the extreme makeover of dinosaurs from coldblooded, pea-brain tyrants to warmblooded, empathetic helpmates.

The finding also „sheds light on the origins of parental care systems in birds,“ said Frankie D. Jackson, a paleontologist at Montana State University, one of the authors.

Males protect or support offspring in more than 90 percent of bird species — a distinctly rare attribute in the animal world. In mammals, males provide parental care in 5 percent of species, and it’s even rarer in reptiles.

If the hypothesis holds up — the evidence, like that for much of dinosaur behavior, is sketchy and indirect — it suggests that life in the Jurassic and Cretaceous was more New Age than anyone had imagined.’

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