Food allocation in crimson rosella broods: parents differ in their responses to chick hunger

Krebs, Elizabeth; Magrath, Robert D

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Food allocation in crimson rosella broods: parents differ in their responses to chick hunger

Date

2000

Authors

Krebs, Elizabeth

Magrath, Robert D

Publisher

Academic Press

Abstract

Food allocation in many asynchronously hatching bird species favours large, competitively superior chicks. In contrast, food is usually distributed equally within broods of crimson rosellas, Platycercus elegans, implying that parents do not simply feed th