Decreased food intake as a fecundity-dependent cost of reproduction in keelback snakes (Tropidonophis mairii, Colubridae)
The physical burden of pregnancy may render females slower and less able to evade predation, favouring a reduction in feeding in order to avoid a reduction in survivorship. Life-history theory predicts that an organism’s optimal level of investment into reproduction depends upon whether or not the a...
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The Royal Society
2025-04-01
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| Series: | Royal Society Open Science |
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| Online Access: | https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.241831 |
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