Climate and the distribution of cooperative breeding in mammals [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 Cooperative breeding systems, in which non-breeding individuals provide care for the offspring of dominant group members, occur in less than 1% of mammals and are associated with social monogamy and the production of multiple offspring per birth ...
Dieter Lukas, Tim Clutton-Brock
doaj +3 more sources
What drives cooperative breeding? [PDF]
PLoS Biology, 2017 Cooperative breeding, in which more than a pair of conspecifics cooperate to raise young at a single nest or brood, is widespread among vertebrates but highly variable in its geographic distribution.
Walter D Koenig
doaj +5 more sources
Cooperative breeding behaviors in the Hawaiian Stilt (Himantopus mexicanus knudseni) [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Cooperative breeding, which is commonly characterized by nonbreeding individuals that assist others with reproduction, is common in avian species. However, few accounts have been reported in Charadriiformes, particularly island‐nesting species.
Arleone Dibben‐Young +5 more
doaj +2 more sources
A case of cooperative breeding in the European Starling, Sturnus vulgaris [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Cooperative breeding, where individuals other than the parents help to raise offspring, occurs in only ~9% of bird species. Although many starlings (Sturnidae) are cooperative breeders, the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) has rarely been observed ...
Hazel J. Nichols, Kevin Arbuckle
doaj +2 more sources
Family living sets the stage for cooperative breeding and ecological resilience in birds. [PDF]
PLoS Biology, 2017 Cooperative breeding is an extreme form of cooperation that evolved in a range of lineages, including arthropods, fish, birds, and mammals. Although cooperative breeding in birds is widespread and well-studied, the conditions that favored its evolution ...
Michael Griesser +3 more
doaj +2 more sources
Fundamental problems with the cooperative breeding hypothesis. A reply to Burkart & van Schaik. [PDF]
J Zool (1987), 2016 This is the final version of the article. Available from Wiley via the DOI in this record.The cooperative breeding hypothesis (CBH) states that cooperative breeding, a social system in which group members help to rear offspring that are not their own ...
Thornton A +5 more
europepmc +2 more sources
Sex-specific effects of cooperative breeding and colonial nesting on prosociality in corvids [PDF]
eLife, 2020 The investigation of prosocial behavior is of particular interest from an evolutionary perspective. Comparisons of prosociality across non-human animal species have, however, so far largely focused on primates, and their interpretation is hampered by the
Lisa Horn +14 more
doaj +2 more sources
A Solution for the Shortage of Detection Dogs: A Detector Dog Center of Excellence and a Cooperative Breeding Program [PDF]
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2018 Currently, demand for US-bred and born detector dogs exceeds available supply, while reliance on foreign-bred sources introduces many unnecessary and unwanted risks. With proper management of a domestic supply line, U.S.
Eldin A. Leighton +6 more
doaj +2 more sources
Reproductive skew in cooperative breeding: Environmental variability, antagonistic selection, choice, and control [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2019 A multitude of factors may determine reproductive skew among cooperative breeders. One explanation, derived from inclusive fitness theory, is that groups can partition reproduction such that subordinates do at least as well as noncooperative solitary ...
Peter Nonacs
doaj +2 more sources
Diversity of Ascomycota in Jilin: Introducing Novel Woody Litter Taxa in Cucurbitariaceae
Journal of Fungi, 2022 Cucurbitariaceae has a high biodiversity worldwide on various hosts and is distributed in tropical and temperate regions. Woody litters collected in Changchun, Jilin Province, China, revealed a distinct collection of fungi in the family Cucurbitariaceae ...
Wenxin Su +6 more
doaj +1 more source