K-strategy

As you would guess for all this K-strategy behaviour, they are long-lived: Kemp (1996) suggested that they might be among the longest-lived of birds, perhaps surviving into their fourth decade.

Bucorvids: post-Cretaceous maniraptorans on the savannah Darren Naish 2006

As you would guess for all this K-strategy behaviour, they are long-lived: Kemp (1996) suggested that they might be among the longest-lived of birds, perhaps surviving into their fourth decade.

Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006

In a desperate attempt to get some science benefit out of this thread :) is it valid to say that the male/female distinction is in a sense a within-species partition between an r-strategy (males produce very large numbers of gametes investing minimally in the development of each one) and a K-strategy (females produce relatively fewer, larger, egg cells, each of which gets much more resources than an individual sperm cell does)?

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