Comparative egg attendance patterns of incubating polar petrels

• Published in: Animal Biotelemetry
• Main Authors: Shaffer, Scott, Blévin, Pierre, Barbraud, Christophe, Chastel, Olivier, Weimerskirch, Henri
• Other Authors: Department of Biological Sciences San Jose, CA, USA, San Jose State University San José (SJSU), Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé - UMR 7372 (CEBC), Université de La Rochelle (ULR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2021
• Subjects: Biologging; Cape petrel; Egg turning rates; Egg temperatures; Egg neglect; Snow petrel; [SDE]Environmental Sciences; Dumont d’Urville; Nivea; Antarc*; Antarctica; Cape Petrel; Cape Petrels; Daption capense; Snow Petrel; Snow Petrels
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03241113; https://doi.org/10.1186/s40317-021-00240-4

International audience Abstract Background The internal environment of eggs in most birds is regulated by transferring heat energy through contact incubation, maintaining nest microclimate, and frequent egg turning by the incubating parent on its nest. However, we lack information about egg attendan...