Data from: Individual repeatability in laying behaviour does not support the migratory carry-over effect hypothesis of egg-size dimorphism in Eudyptes penguins

• Main Author: Morrison, Kyle W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: carry-over effect; reproductive investment; individual repeatability; egg-size dimorphism; Eastern Rockhopper Penguin; Campbell Island; New Zealand; Rockhopper penguin
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.106182; https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.d4196

Penguins of the genus Eudyptes are unique among birds in that their first-laid A-egg is 54–85% the mass of their second-laid B-egg. Although the degree of intra-clutch egg-size dimorphism varies greatly among the seven species of the genus, obligate brood reduction is typical of each, with most fled...