Post-foraging in-colony behaviour of a central-place foraging seabird.

ABSTRACT: Studies on time allocation of various activities are crucial to understand which behavioural strategy is the most profitable in a given context, and so why animals behave in a particular way. Such investigations usually focus on a time window when the studied activity is performed, often neglecting how the time devoted to focal activity affects time allocation to following-up behaviours, while that may have its own fitness consequences. In this study, we examined time allocation into three post-foraging activities (entering the nest with food, nest attendance, and colony attendance) in a small seabird species, the little auk (Alle alle). Since little auks alternate foraging trips of different duration (short and long) and purpose (offspring feeding and primarily self-feeding, respectively)

SUBMITTER: Wojczulanis-Jakubas K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9334627 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature