Sex differences in responsiveness to begging in a cooperative mammal

Biology Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 334-337

  English, Sinead ^a   Kunc, Hansjoerg P ^b   Madden, Joah R ^a   Clutton Brock, Tim H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Begging; Feeding rate; Meerkat; Parental care; Signalling

Indexed keywords

BEGGING BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROUP SIZE; INGESTION RATE; MAMMAL; PARENTAL CARE; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MAMMAL; MEERKAT; NONHUMAN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

MAMMALIA; SURICATA SURICATTA;

EID: 46949083768     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0200     Document Type: Article

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