Cooperative behaviour in cooperative breeders: Costs, benefits, and communal breeding

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 100-105

  Gilchrist, Jason S ^a,b  

^a EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONIAL BREEDING; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; COOPERATION; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FITNESS; GAME; LITTER SIZE; LONGEVITY; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PROGENY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

EID: 34648846463     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2006.12.013     Document Type: Note

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