Behavioural tactics of breeders in cooperative meerkats

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1029-1040

  Clutton Brock, T H ^a,b   Russell, A F ^a   Sharpe, L L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EUSOCIALITY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RODENT;

HETEROCEPHALUS GLABER; INVERTEBRATA; SURICATA SURICATTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 6044233378     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2003.10.024     Document Type: Article

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