Food availability shapes patterns of helping effort in a cooperative mongoose

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1377-1385

  Nichols, Hazel J ^a   Amos, William ^a   Bell, Matthew B V ^a,b   Mwanguhya, Francis ^c   Kyabulima, Solomon ^c   Cant, Michael A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c Banded Mongoose Research Project   (Uganda)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Birth synchrony; Cooperation; Food availability; Helping; Kin selection; Mungos mungo; Parental investment; Rainfall; Reproductive skew; Sex difference

Indexed keywords

CARNIVORE; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; FITNESS; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HELPING BEHAVIOR; JUVENILE; KIN SELECTION; LITTER SIZE; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; RAINFALL; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SMALL MAMMAL; SURVIVAL; SYNCHRONY;

CARNIVORA; MUNGOS MUNGO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84861884868     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.03.005     Document Type: Article

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