Sentences with phrase «cent of albatross»

But don't be fooled: a 2006 genetic study found that more than 10 per cent of albatross chicks had a father that was not their mother's partner.

Not exact matches

Now Genevieve Jones and colleagues at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, studying the Marion Island albatross colony in the Indian Ocean, have found that 18 per cent of chicks born over three years had an extra-pair sire (Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, DOI: 10.1007 / s00265 -012-1374-8).