Assertion: booby's food | /r/HasProperty | scarce
Facets:
value: especially
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: When food is scarce, the adults might decide to favor the bigger, healthier chick by giving it the lion
text: One or two of the eggs will hatch, and the larger chick will frequently kill the smaller, especially if food is scarce.
text: In El Niño Southern Oscillation years (when food is scarce) fledging may occur at more than 139 days old (Schreiber et al., 1996).
text: If food is scarce the parents may abandon the young in order to ensure their own survival, but if food is abundant they may care for the juvenile for a long time, teaching it how to hunt.
text: They are fed on regurgitated fish but if food is scarce, the largest chick will only be fed.
text: When food is scarce, it can be seen as far north as California (USA) and northern Chile.
text: However, there was no mention of the intense sibling rivalry described by our textbook, and in fact the Wikipedia article never goes into the behavior of siblicide commonly seen in Blue-footed booby broods when food is scarce.
text: In a year when there are excellent food sources, for example, a bird may claim less territory than in years when food is scarce.
text: This distribution in age means that if food is scarce, the older, larger chicks commandeer the bulk of the food.