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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2011
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| 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 |