It Costs to Be Clean and Fit: Energetics of Comfort Behavior in Breeding-Fasting Penguins

Vincent A. Viblanc; Adeline Mathien; Claire Saraux; Vanessa M. Viera; René Groscolas

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0021110

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It Costs to Be Clean and Fit: Energetics of Comfort Behavior in Breeding-Fasting Penguins

Vincent A. Viblanc ,

* E-mail: vincent.viblanc@iphc.cnrs.fr (VAV); rene.groscolas@c-strasbourg.fr (RG)

Affiliations Université de Strasbourg, Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien, Département Ecologie, Physiologie et Ethologie, Strasbourg, France, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 7178, Strasbourg, France
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Adeline Mathien,

Affiliations Université de Strasbourg, Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien, Département Ecologie, Physiologie et Ethologie, Strasbourg, France, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 7178, Strasbourg, France
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Claire Saraux,

Affiliations Université de Strasbourg, Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien, Département Ecologie, Physiologie et Ethologie, Strasbourg, France, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 7178, Strasbourg, France, AgroParisTech, Ecole Nationale du Génie Rural, des Eaux et des Forêts, Paris, France
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Vanessa M. Viera,

Affiliations Université de Strasbourg, Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien, Département Ecologie, Physiologie et Ethologie, Strasbourg, France, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 7178, Strasbourg, France, Département de biologie et Centre d'études nordiques, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
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René Groscolas

* E-mail: vincent.viblanc@iphc.cnrs.fr (VAV); rene.groscolas@c-strasbourg.fr (RG)

Affiliations Université de Strasbourg, Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien, Département Ecologie, Physiologie et Ethologie, Strasbourg, France, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 7178, Strasbourg, France
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It Costs to Be Clean and Fit: Energetics of Comfort Behavior in Breeding-Fasting Penguins

Vincent A. Viblanc,
Adeline Mathien,
Claire Saraux,
Vanessa M. Viera,
René Groscolas

Published: July 19, 2011
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0021110

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