Family values: Group dynamics and social control of reproduction in African mole-rats

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 184-190

  Faulkes, Chris G ^a   Bennett, Nigel C ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; RODENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AFRICA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIRTH CONTROL; CARNIVORA; ECOLOGY; FAMILY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GROUP DYNAMICS; MARMOSET; MATING TYPE; MOLE RAT; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SOCIETY;

ANIMALIA; CARNIVORA; CRYPTOMYS HOTTENTOTUS; HETEROCEPHALUS GLABER; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; MARMOSETS; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0035313863     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(01)02116-4     Document Type: Review

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