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Break Time — Photograph

March 11, 2010 at 3:56 PM Leave a comment

I love this picture of a baby canary from the cover of the most recent issue of Science.

Photo: Fernando Trabanco

COVER Substances deposited by a mother bird into her eggs influence how intensely her offspring beg for food after hatching. In canaries, these substances are effectively a prenatal signal of parental generosity. In contrast to the common assumption, they function primarily to serve the evolutionary interests of the offspring rather than the mother.

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