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Risk-taking restraints in a bird with reduced egg-hatching success.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 22 Feb 2000
Lambrechts M M, Prieur B, Caizergues A, Dehorter O, Galan M J, Perret P
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Risk taking, as is any other phenotypic and/or behavioural trait, is determined by proximate constraints related to time or resource availability and by evolutionary adaptive restraints related to the differences in the costs of risk taking and its benefits in terms of fitness. Because risk taking is influenced by many confounding variables related to experimental design, environment, parents and offspring, few...
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