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Nothing new (yawn)

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Subject: Nothing new (yawn)
From: "Geoffrey Dabb" <>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 12:43:03 +1100

On reaching for my HANZAB for an explanation of a sub-adult D Moorhen feeding a chick, I find that Michael Lenz has once again been there before us all.  Immatures do participate in groups of these co-operative breeders.  While one study reported ‘no parental behaviour in birds less than 10 months old’, Michael contributed (in Corella 1990) a report of ‘young of first brood feeding chicks of second brood’.

 

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