Individual contributions to territory defence in a cooperative breeder: Weighing up the benefits and costs

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1744, 2012, Pages 3989-3995

  Mares, Rafael ^a   Young, Andrew J ^b   Clutton Brock, Tim H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cooperative breeding; Cooperative care; Meerkat; Prospecting; Suricata suricatta; Territorial behaviour

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BREEDING; DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; REPRODUCTIVE COST; SMALL MAMMAL; TERRITORIALITY; TRADE-OFF; WEIGHT;

EID: 84865379572     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1071     Document Type: Article

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