Top males gain high reproductive success by guarding more successful females in a cooperatively breeding mongoose

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 649-657

  Nichols, Hazel J ^a   Amos, William ^a   Cant, Michael A ^b   Bell, Matthew B V ^a   Hodge, Sarah J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Banded mongoose; Cooperative breeding; Intersexual conflict; Mate choice; Mate guarding; Mungos mungo; Reproductive skew

Indexed keywords

CARNIVORA; MUNGOS MUNGO;

EID: 77955888621     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.06.025     Document Type: Article

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