Where the Wild Things Are: Sex Differentiated Foraging Behavior in Leach's storm-petrels (Oceanodroma leucorhoa)

• Main Author: Adrianowycz, Sarah E
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange 2016
• Subjects: Geolocators; Kent Island; seabirds; foraging; incubation; parental care; Biology; Oceanodroma leucorhoa
• Online Access: https://digital.kenyon.edu/honorstheses/165

Sex differences in parental effort have been well studied in avian systems. Previous findings indicate that in sexually dimorphic species, the larger mate frequently invests more energy in caring for the offspring; however, the issue becomes increasingly complex when sexually monomorphic species are...