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Fecal sacs do not increase nest predation in a ground nester

Enrique Rubio, Auteur ; Olivia Sanllorente, Auteur ; B. Irene Tieleman, Auteur ; Juan Diego Ibáñez-Álamo, Auteur

Dans Journal of Ornithology (159(4) October 2018)

Most altricial birds remove their nestlings’ feces from the nest, but the evolutionary forces driving this behavior are poorly understood. A possible adaptive explanation for this could be that birds avoid the attraction of nest predators to the[...]

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