September 21, 2006

How house finches protect male chicks

A University of Arizona researcher shows that house finches protect their male offspring by changing the order in which eggs are laid.

When marauding mites turn up in a house finch's nest, she shelters her sons from the blood-suckers by laying male eggs later than those containing their sturdier sisters, according to new research.

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