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Observation of an Adélie penguin pecking at a conspecific carcass: a case of intraspecific necrophagy?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2014

Edoardo Calizza ,
Maria Letizia Costantini  and
Loreto Rossi
Edoardo Calizza*
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Trophic Ecology, Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome, Via dei Sardi 70, 00185 Rome, Italy
Maria Letizia Costantini
Affiliation:
Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome, Via dei Sardi 70, 00185 Rome, Italy
Loreto Rossi
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Trophic Ecology, Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome, Via dei Sardi 70, 00185 Rome, Italy
*
edoardo.calizza@uniroma1.it
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Antarctic Science , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , February 2015 , pp. 71 - 72
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© Antarctic Science Ltd 2014 

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