Duration of female parental care and their survival in the little auk Alle alle - are these two traits linked?

• Published in: Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
• Main Authors: Wojczulanis-Jakubas, Katarzyna, Jiménez-Muñoz, Marina, Jakubas,, Dariusz, Kidawa, Dorota, Karnovsky, Nina, Cole, Diana, Matechou, Eleni
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2020
• Subjects: QA276 Mathematical statistics; QH301 Biology; Hornsund; Magdalenefjorden; Alle alle; little auk; Magdalenefjord*; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/81682/; https://kar.kent.ac.uk/81682/1/Wojczulanis-Jakubas2020_Article_DurationOfFemaleParentalCareAn.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-020-02862-9

Desertion of offspring before its independence by one of the parents is observed in a number of avian species with bi-parental care but reasons for this strategy are not fully understood. This behaviour is particularly intriguing in species where bi-parental care is crucial to raise the brood succes...