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POLAR BIOLOGY
Volume 24, Issue 5, Pages 338-342Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s003000000216
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We examined if laying intervals and hatching asynthronies are related in a chinstrap penguin (Pygoscelis antarctica) population in the South Orkneys. The lack of association between the two variables, as well as data on brood patch development, indicated that incubation did not begin immediately after the first egg was laid. This suggests that longer laying intervals may be compensated by longer delays in the onset of full incubation. Hatching asynchrony increased with within clutch egg size asymmetry, decreased with breeding date, and was related to the laying order of the eggs according to size. However, only egg-size asymmetry remained significant when controlling for the other variables. We conclude that more asymmetric clutches were more asynchronous, although a large part of the variation in hatching asynchrony remains unexplained.
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