Duration of female parental care and their survival in the little auk Alle alle - are these two traits linked?

• Published in: Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
• Main Authors: Wojczulanis-Jakubas, Katarzyna, Jiménez-Muñoz, Marina, Jakubas, Dariusz, Kidawa, Dorota, Karnovsky, Nina, Cole, Diana, Matechou, Eleni
• Other Authors: Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego, Narodowe Centrum Nauki
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2020
• Subjects: Animal Science and Zoology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Hornsund; Magdalenefjorden; Alle alle; little auk; Magdalenefjord*; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-020-02862-9; https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00265-020-02862-9.pdf; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00265-020-02862-9/fulltext.html

Abstract Desertion of offspring before its independence by one of the parents is observed in a number of avian species with bi-parental care but reasons for this strategy are not fully understood. This behaviour is particularly intriguing in species where bi-parental care is crucial to raise the bro...