Sex identification in King Penguins Aptenodytes patagonicus through morphological and acoustic cues

• Published in: Ibis
• Main Authors: Kriesell, Hannah J., Aubin, Thierry, Planas‐Bielsa, Víctor, Benoiste, Marine, Bonadonna, Francesco, Gachot‐Neveu, Hélène, Le Maho, Yvon, Schull, Quentin, Vallas, Benoit, Zahn, Sandrine, Le Bohec, Céline
• Other Authors: Institut Polaire Français Paul Emile Victor, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre Scientifique de Monaco
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2018
• Subjects: King Penguins; Possession Island
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ibi.12577; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fibi.12577; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ibi.12577

In the context of sexual selection, animals have developed a variety of cues conveying information about the sex of an individual to conspecifics. In many colonial seabird species, where females and males are monomorphic and do not show obvious differences in external morphology, acoustic cues are a...