Calling in the gap: Competition or cooperation in littermates' begging behaviour?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1660, 2009, Pages 1255-1262

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Begging; Cooperation; Coordination; Indirect competition; Meerkats

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BEGGING BEHAVIOR; CARNIVORE; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MAMMAL; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; SIBLING;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SURICATA SURICATTA; ANIMAL; CARNIVORA; LITTER SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VOCALIZATION;

SURICATA SURICATTA;

ANIMALS; HERPESTIDAE; LITTER SIZE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 64849103758     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1660     Document Type: Article

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