Paying to stay or paying to breed? Field evidence for direct benefits of helping behavior in a cooperatively breeding fish

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 432-438

  Balshine Earn, Sigal ^a   Neat, Francis C ^a   Reid, Hannah ^a   Taborsky, Michael ^a  

^a KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cichlids; Cooperative breeding; Helping behavior; Neolamprologus pulcher; Territory inheritance

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BREEDING; EUSOCIALITY; FISH;

NEOLAMPROLOGUS PULCHER;

EID: 0031666004     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/9.5.432     Document Type: Article

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