It Costs to Be Clean and Fit: Energetics of Comfort Behavior in Breeding-Fasting Penguins

BACKGROUND: Birds may allocate a significant part of time to comfort behavior (e.g., preening, stretching, shaking, etc.) in order to eliminate parasites, maintain plumage integrity, and possibly reduce muscular ankylosis. Understanding the adaptive value of comfort behavior would benefit from knowl...

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Autores principales: Viblanc, Vincent A., Mathien, Adeline, Saraux, Claire, Viera, Vanessa M., Groscolas, René
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3139590/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21818253
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0021110

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3139590/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21818253
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0021110

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