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Are microbes and metabolites influencing the parental consumption of nestlings’ feces in gray-backed shrikes?
The behavioral video recordings of the gray-backed shrike Lanius tephronotus revealed that parent birds eat the feces produced by their nestlings. “Parental nutrition hypothesis” attributes the origin of this behavior to nutrition-recovery and cost-saving, respectively. However, the presence of usab...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2022
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9892794/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36743228 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoac005 |