Penguin parenting : assortative mating, nest attendance and sex-specific chick provisioning in the African Penguin (Spheniscus demersus)

Animal behaviour is especially sensitive to environmental variability and prey availability during the breeding season, and this is particularly true for non-volant, central place foragers such as the endangered African Penguin (Spheniscus demersus). Individual sex and morphology, as well as the lev...

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Main Author: Smith, Diane Lauren
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Rhodes University 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019993