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- Title
King penguin brooding and defending a sub-Antarctic skua chick.
- Authors
Oosthuizen, W.; de Bruyn, P.
- Abstract
Interspecific parental care is rare, conveys no ultimate evolutionary advantage, and is usually attributed to reproductive errors in species with analogous habitat, behaviour and diet. We report on interspecific parental care (brooding and “defence” of unrelated chick) provided by a king penguin to a sub-Antarctic skua chick on Marion Island, despite substantial risk of injury to the penguin due to the presence of the true parents.
- Subjects
ANIMAL habitations; ANIMAL behavior; ANIMAL nutrition; KING penguin; APTENODYTES
- Publication
Polar Biology, 2009, Vol 32, Issue 2, p303
- ISSN
0722-4060
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00300-008-0566-1