The adaptive significance of crèches in the king penguin

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 527-538

  Le Bohec, Céline ^a,c   Gauthier Clerc, Michel ^b   Le Maho, Yvon ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b STATION BIOLOGIQUE DE LA TOUR DU VALAT   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES SUBATOMIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; PARENTAL CARE; REARING; SEABIRD;

APTENODYTES PATAGONICUS; CICONIIFORMES; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 33644518390     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2004.11.012     Document Type: Article

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