1. Cannibalism by Brown Booby (Sula leucogaster) at a small tropical archipelago
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Patrícia L. Mancini, Leandro Bugoni, Guilherme Tavares Nunes, Felipe Machado Neves, and Fernanda Pinto Marques
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Leucogaster ,geography ,geography.geographical_feature_category ,biology ,Ecology ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Cannibalism ,Booby ,biology.organism_classification ,Competition (biology) ,Predation ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Taxon ,Archipelago ,media_common - Abstract
Cannibalism is the total or partial consumption of a conspecific’s body or eggs, and it has been reported for many bird taxa, particularly carnivorous, colonial species, and those species that ingest fragmented prey. Here we report cannibalism by Brown Booby ( Sula leucogaster ) at Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago, offshore Brazil. We discussed possible causes for this behavior such as opportunistic feeding, colony sanitation and space competition for nesting places.
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- 2015
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