Life history trade-offs: why tropical songbirds have fewer chicks

Follow Slashdot stories on Twitter

Submission + - Life history trade-offs: why tropical songbirds have fewer chicks (theguardian.com)

Submitted by grrlscientist on Friday August 28, 2015 @06:36AM

grrlscientist writes: Tropical songbirds produce fewer, high-quality nestlings per breeding effort than do songbirds that breed in temperate zones, according to a study published today. This study reports that tropical songbirds’ nestlings grow longer wings, and faster, which means they spend less time in the nest where they are vulnerable to predators

This discussion was created for logged-in users only, but now has been archived. No new comments can be posted.