Preferential incubation positions for different sized eggs and their influence on incubation period and hatching asynchrony in Snares crested (Eudyptes robustus) and yellow-eyed penguins (Megadyptes antipodes)

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 426-434

  Massaro, Melanie ^a,b   Davis, Lloyd S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Brood reduction; Egg surface temperatures; Hatching asynchrony; Incubation behaviour; Intraclutch egg size variation

Indexed keywords

EGG SIZE; HATCHING; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INCUBATION; SEABIRD;

EUDYPTES; EUDYPTES ROBUSTUS; MEGADYPTES ANTIPODES; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 4544295322     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-004-0803-8     Document Type: Article

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