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Sexual differentiation across taxa may be due to genetic sex determination (GSD) and/or temperature sex determination (TSD). In…
Abstract Megapodes are exceptional among birds because they use external heat sources for incubating their eggs. In Australian…
Megapode chicks hatch underground at a depth of between 40 and 150 cm, where external heat sources incubate the eggs. They dig…
Most birds rely on imprinting and experience with conspecifics to learn species-specific recognition cues. Australian brush…
Birds usually influence offspring survival through the amount of parental care they provide. Megapodes have evolved a different…
Megapode (Family Megapodiidae) hatchlings are the most precocial of all avian species. Upon emergence from the incubation site…
The megapode hatchling receives no care or guidance from its parents and so must be able to survive by itself. This raises some…
Megapodes are unique among birds in incubating their eggs entirely through the exploitation of external sources of heat (Frith…