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  1. Is it possible that when food was abundant, laying extra eggs was adaptive because it would be a way to store "fresh food" for periods of high food demands?
    Barón et al. discovered that hoopoes use extra eggs as packed food to feed older siblings. Read now ahead of print!

    journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1

    #eggs #hoopoes #adaptive #nestlings #reproductiveSuccess