19 Jun 2007

Divorce Among Galapagos Seabirds

Being a devoted husband and father is not enough to keep an avian marriage together for the Nazca booby, a long-lived seabird found in the Galapagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador. A number of Nazca booby females switch mates after successfully raising a chick, as per a Wake Forest University study scheduled for publication in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences June 13........

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