Parents are a Drag: Long-Lived Birds Share the Cost of Increased Foraging Effort with Their Offspring, but Males Pass on More of the Costs than Females

Shoshanah R. Jacobs; Kyle Hamish Elliott; Anthony J. Gaston

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0054594

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Parents are a Drag: Long-Lived Birds Share the Cost of Increased Foraging Effort with Their Offspring, but Males Pass on More of the Costs than Females

Shoshanah R. Jacobs,

Affiliation Department of Integrated Biology, Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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Kyle Hamish Elliott ,

* E-mail: urialomvia@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba
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Anthony J. Gaston

Affiliation Environment Canada, National Wildlife Research Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Parents are a Drag: Long-Lived Birds Share the Cost of Increased Foraging Effort with Their Offspring, but Males Pass on More of the Costs than Females

Shoshanah R. Jacobs,
Kyle Hamish Elliott,
Anthony J. Gaston

Published: January 30, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0054594

About the Authors

Shoshanah R. Jacobs

Affiliation Department of Integrated Biology, Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Kyle Hamish Elliott

* E-mail: urialomvia@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Anthony J. Gaston

Affiliation Environment Canada, National Wildlife Research Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SRJ KHE AJG. Performed the experiments: SRJ KHE. Analyzed the data: SRJ KEH AJG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AJG. Wrote the paper: SRJ KEH.

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