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Incubation feeding as a male tactic for early hatching
Jan-Åke Nilsson,Henrik G. Smith +1 more
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It is concluded that feeding of the female by the male is a nutritional contribution and that the shorter incubation period and increased hatching success enhance the fitness of both parents.About:
This article is published in Animal Behaviour.The article was published on 1988-06-01. It has received 125 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Incubation & Incubation period.read more
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Avian Energetics and Nutritional Ecology
TL;DR: This chapter discusses avian energetics, ecology and evolution, and investigates the role of mitochondria in bird thermoregulatory responses and post-natal growth.
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Why don't birds lay more eggs?
Pat Monaghan,Ruedi G. Nager +1 more
TL;DR: Fifty years ago David Lack put forward a key hypothesis in life-history theory: that avian clutch is ultimately determined by the number of young that parents can provide with food, which needs to be extended to encompass the full demands of producing and rearing the brood.
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Selection for the timing of great tit breeding in relation to caterpillar growth and temperature
TL;DR: Six alternative hypotheses explaining a consistent selection differential for earlier laying are discussed, including one that is new and is based on the fact that the birds can delay their breeding more succesfully than they can speed it up, once they have started laying.
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Evolution of passerine incubation behavior: influence of food, temperature, and nest predation.
TL;DR: Nest predation can influence reproductive effort in a way previously not demonstrated–by placing a constraint on parental activity at the nest, presumably because nest predation and/or temperature varies among nest substrates.
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Hatching Asynchrony and the Onset of Incubation in Birds, Revisited
TL;DR: In most animals, offspring from a reproductive bout usually hatch, emerge, or are born within a relatively short time of each other compared to the time required for their development, so hatching or birthing in most animals is synchronous.
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Population Fluctuations and Clutch-Size in the Great Tit, Parus major L.
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Sokal, R. R., and I. J. Rohlf: Biometry. W. H. Freeman and Company, San Francisco 1969, XXI + 776 S., 89 Abb., 56 Tab., Preis 126/—
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Handbook of British Birds
TL;DR: A Practical Handbook of British Birds as discussed by the authors has been for some time in preparation, and we would be very grateful to any readers who would now send us notes of any omissions or errors in the original work, and of any unpublished observations which would make the work more accurate and complete.