Sex differences in parental roles and diving behaviour of thick-billed murres, URIA LOMVIA, and Razorbills, Alca Torda, at the Gannet Islands, Labrador

There is no evolutionary, ecological or behavioural explanation for the partitioning of parental roles between the sexes in the Alcini, which includes murres (Uria), the razorbill, (Alca torda), great auk (Penguinus impennis) and dovekie (Alle alle); and why the male is the selected sex to accompany...

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Main Author: Paredes Vela, Rosana.
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Memorial University of Newfoundland 2008
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Online Access:https://research.library.mun.ca/9715/
https://research.library.mun.ca/9715/1/Paredes-Vela_Rosana.pdf