Female characteristics and parental care mode in the creching system of eiders, Somateria mollissima.
Eider females may abandon their young, care alone, or join in multifemale crèches. We studied the characteristics of female eiders adopting these strategies in 1996-1999. Female condition at hatching varied significantly between years. Over all years, 31% of all females abandoned, 23% tended alone a...
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2001
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1072.4332 http://www.sfu.ca/biology/wildberg/papers/OstAnimBehav2001.pdf |