Helpers in a cooperative breeder pay a high price to stay: effects of demand, helper size and sex

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1843-1850

  Bruintjes, Rick ^a   Taborsky, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

cichlid; cooperative breeding; density; helping behaviour; Neolamprologus pulcher; pay to stay; pre emptive appeasement

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BROOD REARING; CICHLID; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; EUSOCIALITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

CICHLIDAE; NEOLAMPROLOGUS PULCHER; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 44349118555     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.12.004     Document Type: Article

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