Titlebook: Seabird Energetics; G. Causey Whittow,Hermann Rahn Book 1984 Plenum Press, New York 1984 bird.ecology.physiology.social behavior

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Book 1984significance of which goes far beyond physiology as a brief historical perspective may illustrate. After decades of mainly anecdotal observations by natu­ ralists with an interest in seabirds, there was still so little information that in 1954, David Lack in his book "The Natural Regulatiori of Anim

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Energy Cost of Incubation to the Parent Seabird, cost-of-incubation theories. Kendeigh’s model assumes that the heat lost from the egg must be balanced by extra heat production by the parent bird while King argues that the heat produced as a by-product of metabolism could substitute at least part of the heat needed to maintain egg temperature. Mu

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Eggs, Yolk, and Embryonic Growth Rate,elative amount of yolk they contain, the caloric content of their eggs, the cost of egg formation, and the embryonic growth rate. In addition we document energetic strategies of some species whose eggs have larger than normal yolk content.

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