Fact: Parental age affect how long offspring live
By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 18-01-2016
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The study was conducted on a free-living population of European shags (Phalacrocorax aristotelis) that breed on the Isle of May National Nature Reserve in the Firth of Forth, Scotland. The socially monogamous seabirds are long lived, sometimes as much as 22 years.