Odour-based kin discrimination in the cooperatively breeding meerkat

Biology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Leclaire, Sarah ^a,b   Nielsen, Johanna F ^c,d   Thavarajah, Nathan K ^a,b   Manser, Marta ^b,e   Clutton Brock, Tim H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Kalahari Meerkat Project   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Kinship; Olfactory communication; Phenotype matching

Indexed keywords

AVOIDANCE REACTION; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; FACILITATION; FELID; INBREEDING AVOIDANCE; KIN RECOGNITION; KINSHIP; ODOR; OLFACTORY CUE; PHENOTYPE; RELATEDNESS;

ANIMALIA; SURICATA SURICATTA;

ANAL CANAL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; MONGOOSE; ODOR; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; SECRETION (PROCESS); SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOUTH AFRICA;

ANAL CANAL; ANIMALS; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HERPESTIDAE; MALE; ODORS; PHENOTYPE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SMELL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84872041892     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.1054     Document Type: Article

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