Variation in contributions to teaching by meerkats

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 275, Issue 1644, 2008, Pages 1745-1751

  Thornton, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Helping behaviour; Meerkats; Parental care; Social learning; Suricata suricatta; Teaching

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EUSOCIALITY; FITNESS; JUVENILE; LEARNING; MAMMAL; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PARENTAL CARE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; CUB; MAMMAL; MEERKAT; NONHUMAN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL LEARNING; TEACHING;

AVES; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; SURICATA SURICATTA;

EID: 45249114154     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.0268     Document Type: Article

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