Color ornaments and territory position in king penguins

• Published in: Behavioural Processes
• Main Authors: Keddar, Ismaël, Jouventin, Pierre, Dobson, F. Stephen
• Other Authors: Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE), Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques (Montpellier SupAgro)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD France-Sud )-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro), Department of Zoology, Auburn University (AU)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2015
• Subjects: colonial breeding; colored ornaments; king penguins; mutual mate choice; territory position; [SDV.BA.ZV]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology/Vertebrate Zoology; The Beak; King Penguins
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-01176115; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2015.07.003

International audience King penguins exhibit mutual color ornamentation of feathers and beak color. They breed in dense colonies and produce a single chick every 2 years. Thus, males and females must choose partners carefully to be reproductively successful, and auricular patches of males and UV col...