The interaction between homing and parental care offers insights about the motivational aspects underlying movement patterns in animals. For species that care for offspring at fixed locations, offspring mortality in the absence of care might impact a parent’s motivation to home after being displaced from young. We tested whether homing motivation is related to parental care in the glassfrog Centrolene savagei (Centrolenidae), a species with extended male care and territoriality. Specifically, we evaluated how parental status (i.e. caring for eggs vs unmated yet territorial males) and translocation distance impacts homing motivation. Along a stream located in the Central Andes of Colombia, we translocated 23 male C. savagei between 5 and 80 m away from their reproductive territories. We found that both parental status and translocation distance impacts homing motivation, as caring males were more likely to return to their initial territories after translocation. Seven of the 16 caring males and one of the seven unmated males returned to the initial capture site. While unmated males might be motivated to home if reproductive territories are a limited resource, our results support that caring males exhibited much higher motivation to home. It is possible that the fitness benefits accrued from caring for vulnerable offspring alters the cost-to-benefits of homing, and thus accounts for a greater frequency of homing among caring males. This study contributes to understanding how aspects of life history (e.g. parental care) relate to homing motivation in vertebrates.

归巢和父母照顾之间的相互作用提供了关于动物运动模式背后动机方面的见解。对于在固定地点照顾后代的物种，在缺乏照顾的情况下，后代的死亡率可能会影响父母在流离失所后回家的动机。我们测试了归巢动机是否与玻璃蛙Centrolene savagei (Centrolenidae) 的父母照顾有关，这是一种具有扩展的雄性照顾和领地性的物种。具体而言，我们评估了父母身份（即照顾鸡蛋与未交配但具有领地意识的雄性）和易位距离如何影响归巢动机。沿着位于哥伦比亚中部安第斯山脉的一条溪流，我们转移了 23 只雄性C. savagei距离它们的生殖区域 5 到 80 m 之间。我们发现父母身份和易位距离都会影响归巢动机，因为有爱心的雄性在易位后更有可能返回其最初的领地。16 只有爱心的雄性中有 7 只和 7 只未交配的雄性中有 1 只返回了最初的捕获地点。如果生殖区域是有限的资源，未交配的雄性可能会有回家的动机，但我们的结果支持有爱心的雄性表现出更高的回家动机。照顾易受伤害的后代所产生的健康益处可能会改变归巢的成本收益比，从而导致有爱心的雄性归巢的频率更高。这项研究有助于了解生活史的各个方面（例如父母的照顾）如何与脊椎动物的归巢动机相关。