Postural Shifts During Egg-Brooding and Their Impact on Egg Water Balance in Children’s Pythons (Antaresia childreni)
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Parental care is an ecologically significant behavior adopted by many vertebrates, especially endothermic ones, and has thus received considerable attention (Clutton-Brock 1991; Farmer 2000). Parental care provides offspring with many requirements for development, such as water balance, energy provisioning, and temperature regulation (CluttonBrock 1991; Deeming, 2004). Because the needs of Correspondence Zachary R. Stahlschmidt, School of Life Sciences – Graduate Programs, Arizona State University at Tempe, Tempe, AZ 85287-4601, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
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