Parents are a Drag: Long-Lived Birds Share the Cost of Increased Foraging Effort with Their Offspring, but Males Pass on More of the Costs than Females

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Jacobs, Shoshanah R ^a   Elliott, Kyle Hamish ^b   Gaston, Anthony J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; LIPID;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID BLOOD LEVEL; ENERGY COST; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FORAGING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH RATE; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PREDATION; PROGENY; SEABIRD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; URIA LOMVIA;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRDS; BODY WEIGHT; CORTICOSTERONE; DIVING; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LIPIDS; MALE; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84873865316     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054594     Document Type: Article

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