Signals of need in a cooperatively breeding mammal with mobile offspring

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1805-1813

  Manser, Marta B ^a,b   Madden, Joah R ^c   Kunc, Hansjoerg P ^a   English, Sinead ^c   Clutton Brock, Tim ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

begging; call rate; cooperative breeder; meerkat; mobile begging system; signal of need; Suricata suricatta

Indexed keywords

BEGGING BEHAVIOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MAMMAL; PARENTAL CARE; VOCALIZATION;

AVES; MAMMALIA; SURICATA SURICATTA;

EID: 56049115580     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.07.027     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Bell M.B.V. Cooperative begging in banded mongoose pups. Current Biology 17 (2007) 717-721
2. Bell M.B.V. Strategic adjustment of begging effort by banded mongoose pups. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 275 (2008) 1313-1319
3. Brotherton P.N.M., Clutton-Brock T.H., O'Riain M.J., Gaynor D., Sharpe L., Kansky R., and McIlrath G.M. Offspring food allocation by parents and helpers in a cooperative mammal. Behavioral Ecology 12 (2001) 590-599
4. Chappell M.A., and Bachman G.C. Energetic costs of begging behaviour. In: Wright J., and Leonard M.L. (Eds). The Evolution of Begging: Competition, Cooperation and Communication (2002), Kluwer, Dordrecht 143-162
5. Clutton-Brock T.H., Gaynor D., Kansky R., MacColl A.D.C., McIlrath G., Chadwick P., Brotherton P.N.M., O'Riain M.J., Manser M., and Skinner J.D. Costs of cooperative behaviour in suricates (Suricata suricatta). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 265 (1998) 185-190
6. Clutton-Brock T.H., Brotherton P.N.M., O'Riain M.J., Griffin A.S., Gaynor D., Kansky R., Sharpe L., and McIlrath G.M. Contributions to cooperative rearing in cooperative meerkats. Animal Behaviour 61 (2001) 705-710
7. Draganoiu T.I., Nagle L., Musseau R., and Kreutzer M. In a songbird, the black redstart, parents use acoustic cues to discriminate between their different fledglings. Animal Behaviour 71 (2006) 1039-1046
8. English S., Kunc H.P., Madden J.M., and Clutton-Brock T.H. Sex differences in responsiveness to begging in a cooperative mammal. Biology Letters 4 (2008) 334-337
9. Engquist L. The mistreatment of covariate interaction terms in linear model analyses of behavioural and evolutionary ecology studies. Animal Behaviour 70 (2005) 967-971
10. Gilchrist J.S. Pup escorting in the communal breeding banded mongoose: behavior, benefits, and maintenance. Behavioral Ecology 15 (2004) 952-960
11. Glassey B., and Forbes S. Muting individual nestlings reduces parental foraging for the brood. Animal Behaviour 63 (2002) 779-786
12. Godfray H.C.J. Signalling of need between parents and young: parent-offspring conflict and sibling rivalry. American Naturalist 146 (1995) 1-24
13. Hodge S., Flower T., and Clutton-Brock T.H. Offspring competition and helper associations in cooperative meerkats. Animal Behaviour 74 (2007) 957-964
14. Hofstetter S.H., and Ritchison G. The begging behavior of nestling eastern screech-owls. Wilson Bulletin 110 (1998) 86-92
15. Johnstone R.A. Begging and sibling competition: how should offspring respond to their rivals?. American Naturalist 163 (2004) 388-406
16. Kilner R.M., and Johnstone R.A. Begging the question: are offspring solicitation behaviours signals of need?. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 12 (1997) 11-15
17. Kilner R.M., Nobel D.G., and Davies N.B. Signals of need in parent-offspring communication and their exploitation by the common cuckoo. Nature 397 (1999) 667-672
18. Kölliker M., Richner H., Werner I., and Heeb P. Begging signals and biparental care: nestling choice between parental feeding locations. Animal Behaviour 55 (1998) 215-222
19. Krebs E.A. Begging and food distribution in crimson rosella (Platycercus elegans) broods: why don't hungry chicks beg more?. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 50 (2001) 20-30
20. Kunc H.P., Madden J.R., and Manser M.B. Begging signals in a mobile feeding system: the evolution of different call types. American Naturalist 170 (2007) 617-624
21. Leech S.M., and Leonard M.L. Begging and the risk of predation in nestling birds. Behavioral Ecology 8 (1997) 644-646
22. Leonard M.L., and Horn A.G. Provisioning rules in tree swallows. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 38 (1996) 341-347
23. Leonard M.L., Horn A.G., and Eden S.F. Parent-offspring aggression in moorhens. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 23 (1988) 265-270
24. Lessells C.M., and Parker G.A. Parent-offspring conflict: the full-sib-half-sib fallacy. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 266 (1999) 1637-1643
25. McRae S.B., Weatherhead P.J., and Montgomerie R. American robin nestlings compete by jockeying for position. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 33 (1993) 101-106
26. Manser M.B., and Avey G. The effect of pup vocalizations on food allocation in a cooperative mammal, the meerkat (Suricata suricatta). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 48 (2000) 429-437
27. Mock D.W., and Parker G.A. Siblicide, family conflict and the evolutionary limits of selfishness. Animal Behaviour 56 (1997) 1-10
28. Ottosson U., Backman J., and Smith H.G. Begging affects parental effort in the pied flycatcher, Ficedula hypoleuca. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 41 (1997) 381-384
29. R Development Core Team. R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing (2005), R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna
30. Royle N.J., Hartley I.R., and Parker G.A. Begging for control: when are offspring solicitation behaviours honest?. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 17 (2002) 434-440
31. Sacchi R., Saino N., and Galeotti P. Features of begging calls reveal general condition and need of food of barn swallow (Hirundo rustica) nestlings. Behavioral Ecology 13 (2002) 268-273
32. Smith T.E., Leonard M.L., and Smith B.D. Provisioning rules and chick competition in asynchronously hatching common terns (Sterna hirundo). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 58 (2005) 456-465
33. Thornton A. Early body condition, time budgets and the acquisition of foraging skills in meerkats. Animal Behaviour 75 (2008) 951-962
34. Träger I., Masello J.-F., Mundry R., and Quillfeldt P. Do acoustic parameters of begging calls of Cory's shearwaters Calonectris diomedea reflect chick body condition?. Waterbirds 29 (2006) 315-320
35. Trivers R.L. Parent-offspring conflict. American Zoologist 14 (1974) 249-264
36. Venables W.N., and Ripley B.D. Modern Applied Statistics with S. 4th edn (2002), Springer, New York
37. Weary D.M., and Fraser D. Calling by domestic piglets: reliable signals of need?. Animal Behaviour 50 (1995) 1047-1055
38. Wright J., and Leonard M.L. The Evolution of Begging: Competition, Cooperation and Communication (2002), Kluwer, Dordrecht