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JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY
卷 41, 期 4, 页码 419-426出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-048X.2010.04999.x
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- National Science Foundation
- Organization for Tropical Studies
- Andrew Mellon Fellowship
- Frank M. Chapman Fund
- American Ornithologist Union
- Mario Eunadi Center
- Andrew Mellon Fund
- Cornell Univ.
Egg camouflage has been found to reduce predation in several ground-nesting species. Therefore, the evolution of eggs that lack camouflage in ground nesting birds is puzzling. Even though clutch predation in the tropics is high, tinamous are the only tropical ground-nesting birds that do not build a nest and do not lay cryptic eggs. I studied predation of great tinamou clutches in a lowland tropical forest and found that risk of predation was higher during incubation when the eggs are covered by the parent, than during laying when they are exposed, suggesting that predators primarily use cues from the incubating males to locate the clutch and not cues from the eggs. Clutch size had no effect on predation rate, even though larger clutches are more conspicuous to a human observer. Predation by visual cues is likely reduced during incubation by the camouflaged plumage and high nest attendance of males. If most predators use cues from the incubating male and not the eggs to locate clutches, then conspicuous egg color may have evolved in great tinamous as an intra-specific signal. I evaluate hypotheses that may explain the maintenance of conspicuous egg color in tinamous.
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