The dilemma between keeping the eggs warm and surviving starvation when you are an incubating bird in the Arctic. Far from being measurement artefacts, extended recess is a sensible strategy under harsh environmental and poor body conditions. Congratulation to Léa Etchart for this new paper from her PhD project.

📄 Etchart et al (2024) Proc R Soc B http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.2264

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