Pampoulie, Christophe; Lindström, Kai; Mary, Colette M. St. - In: Behavioral Ecology 15 (2004) 2, pp. 199-204
consumed eggs during the brood cycle, but complete clutch cannibalism was most frequent when males were guarding small nests in … the absence of females. The pattern of filial cannibalism that we observed suggests that males prematurely terminated care …