Social benefits of non-kin food sharing by female vampire bats

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 282, Issue 1819, 2015, Pages

  Carter, Gerald G ^a   Wilkinson, Gerald S ^b  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

Bet hedging; Cooperation; Desmodus rotundus; Reciprocity; Social bonds; Social networks

Indexed keywords

BAT; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FITNESS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; RECIPROCITY; SOCIAL NETWORK;

DESMODUS ROTUNDUS;

ANIMAL; BAT; COOPERATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD;

EID: 84947597964     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.2524     Document Type: Article

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