Reluctant challengers: Why do subordinate female meerkats rarely displace their dominant mothers?

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1337-1343

  Sharp, Stuart P ^a   Clutton Brock, Tim H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cooperative breeding; dominance; meerkat; reproductive success; reproductive value; social dynamics

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BREEDING; DATA SET; DOMINANCE; FEMALE; FITNESS; HELPING BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE COST; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SMALL MAMMAL; SURVIVAL;

SURICATA SURICATTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 80455123742     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arr138     Document Type: Article

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