BREEDING ECOLOGY OF THE ANTARCTIC PETREL THALASSOICA ANTARCTICA IN MUHLIG-HOFMANNFJELLA, DRONNING MAUD LAND (Ninth Symposium on Polar Biology)
Possible adaptations to breeding in a thermally hostile environment far inland on the Antarctic Continent includes: shorter incubation, rapid growth rate of chicks, high metabolic rate and thermal insulation in newly hatched chicks compared to other procellariiform chicks. Moreover, the foraging fre...
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1987
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Summary: | Possible adaptations to breeding in a thermally hostile environment far inland on the Antarctic Continent includes: shorter incubation, rapid growth rate of chicks, high metabolic rate and thermal insulation in newly hatched chicks compared to other procellariiform chicks. Moreover, the foraging frequency is lower, but the chick meal size higher, than for other procellariiform bird species of similar size. |
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