Helpers benefit offspring in both the short and long-term in the cooperatively breeding banded mongoose

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1580, 2005, Pages 2479-2484

  Hodge, Sarah J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Banded mongoose; Cooperative breeding; Fitness benefits; Helping; Mungos mungo

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BREEDING; FITNESS; GROWTH RATE; MAMMAL;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CARE AND CARING; FEEDING; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GROWTH CURVE; GROWTH RATE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REARING; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALIA; MUNGOS MUNGO;

EID: 28244445541     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3255     Document Type: Article

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