Cooperative breeding in mammals /
edited by Nancy G. Solomon, Jeffrey A. French.
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
- 1 online resource (xiii, 390 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
The Study of Mammalian Cooperative Breeding / The Bioenergetics of Parental Behavior and the Evolution of Alloparental Care in Marmosets and Tamarins / Proximate Regulation of Singular Breeding in Callitrichid Primates / Cooperative Breeding, Reproductive Suppression, and Body Mass in Canids / Hormonal and Experiential Factors in the Expression of Social and Parental Behavior in Canids / Variation in Reproductive Suppression among Dwarf Mongooses: Interplay between Mechanisms and Evolution / Dynamic Optimization and Cooperative Breeding: An Evaluation of Future Fitness Effects / Nancy G. Solomon and Jeffrey A. French -- Suzette D. Tardif -- Jeffrey A. French -- Patricia D. Moehlman and Heribert Hofer -- Cheryl S. Asa -- Scott R. Creel and Peter M. Waser -- Jeffrey R. Lucas, Scott R. Creel and Peter M. Waser. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
Cooperative breeding refers to a social system in which individuals other than the parents provide care for the offspring. Since individuals delay breeding and invest in the offspring of others, cooperative breeding poses a challenge to a Darwinian explanation of the evolution of social behaviour. The contributors to this book explore the evolutionary, ecological, behavioural and physiological basis of cooperative breeding in mammals. The book contains a collection of chapters by the leading researchers in the field, and it is dedicated exclusively to the study of mammalian cooperative breeding. It will appeal to zoologists, ecologists, evolutionary biologists, and to those interested in animal behaviour.
9780511574634 (ebook)
Mammals--Behavior. Cooperative breeding in animals.