Social systems and life-history characteristics of mongooses

Biological Reviews

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 173-198

  Schneider, Tilman C ^a   Kappeler, Peter M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carnivores; Cooperative breeding; Eupleridae; Herpestidae; Life history; Mongooses; Reproductive competition; Reproductive skew; Social organisation; Socio ecological model

Indexed keywords

CROSSARCHUS; HELOGALE; HERPESTIDAE; LIBERIICTIS; MAMMALIA; MUNGOS; SURICATA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; MONGOOSE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; HERPESTIDAE; PHYLOGENY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84891660757     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/brv.12050     Document Type: Article

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