Nest attendance of lactating females in a wild house mouse population: Benefits associated with communal nesting

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 92, Issue , 2014, Pages 143-149

  Auclair, Yannick ^a   König, Barbara ^a   Ferrari, Manuela ^a   Perony, Nicolas ^b   Lindholm, Anna K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Communal nesting; Cooperation; Exploitation; House mouse; Infanticide; Kinship; Lactation; Maternal care; Nest attendance; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

COLONIAL BREEDING; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INFANTICIDE; KINSHIP; LACTATION; MATERNAL CARE; NEST BOX; RODENT; THERMOREGULATION; WILD POPULATION;

EID: 84899672811     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.03.008     Document Type: Article

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