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. 2015 Sep 29;6:8449. doi: 10.1038/ncomms9449

Figure 1. Parental care in burying beetles involves direct regurgitation of food to begging offspring.

Figure 1

A female Nicrophorus vespilloides burying beetle feeds her begging young. The parent and offspring are in a mouse carcass prepared by the parent as food for the young. Photo by Allen J. Moore.