Individual contributions to babysitting in a cooperative mongoose, Suricata suricatta

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue 1440, 2000, Pages 301-305

  Clutton Brock, T H ^a   Brotherton, P N M ^a   O'Riain, M J ^b   Griffin, A S ^c   Gaynor, D ^b   Sharpe, L ^b   Kansky, R ^b   Manser, M B ^a   McIlrath, G M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Helping behaviour; Mammals

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BREEDING; EVOLUTION; KIN SELECTION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BREEDING; CARNIVORA; COOPERATION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REARING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; CARNIVORA; MAMMALIA; SURICATA SURICATTA;

EID: 0034615052     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1000     Document Type: Article

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