Pup escorting in the communal breeding banded mongoose: Behavior, benefits, and maintenance

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 952-960

  Gilchrist, Jason S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cooperative breeding; Helpers; Kin recognition; Kin selection; Mungos mungo; Nepotism; Parental care; Provisioning

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BREEDING; FOOD PROVISIONING; KIN RECOGNITION; KIN SELECTION; PARENTAL CARE;

CARNIVORA; HERPESTIDAE; MUNGOS MUNGO;

EID: 8144228653     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arh071     Document Type: Article

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