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Offspring thermal demands and parental brooding efficiency differ for precocial birds living in contrasting climates

BACKGROUND: Chicks of precocial birds hatch well-developed and can search actively for food but their homeothermy develops gradually during growth. This makes them dependent on heat provided by parents (“brooding”), which is then traded off against other activities, mainly foraging. Although broodin...

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Autores principales: Kolešková, Veronika, Šálek, Miroslav E., Brynychová, Kateřina, Chajma, Petr, Pešková, Lucie, Elhassan, Esmat, Petrusová Vozabulová, Eva, Janatová, Veronika, Almuhery, Aisha, Sládeček, Martin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10084700/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37032338
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12983-023-00492-1