Hardly hard-hearted: heart rate responses of incubating Northern Giant

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• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Antarctic; Giganteus; Antarc*; Giant Petrel; Giant Petrels; Macronectes giganteus; Marion Island
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.525.3197; http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/stats/adu/pdf/de Villiers_NGP heart rates.pdf

Abstract Guidelines for visitors to sub-Antarctic Marion Island recommend 15 and 100 m minimum approach distances for breeding Northern (Macronectes halli) and Southern (Macronectes giganteus) Giant Petrels, respectively. Using artificial eggs containing FM trans-mitters, we measured the heart rate...