Cooperative Breeding in Mammals
by Edited by Nancy G. Solomon , Jeffrey A. FrenchFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1997-03-13
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary
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.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| 1. Issues in the study of mammalian cooperative breeding N. G. Solomon and J. A. French | |
| 2. The bioenergetics of parental behavior and the evolution of alloparental care in marmosets and tamarins S. D. Tardif | |
| 3. Proximate regulation of singular breeding in Callitrichid primates J. A. French | |
| 4. Cooperative breeding, reproductive suppression, and body size in canids P. D. Moehlman and H. Hofer | |
| 5. Hormonal and experiential factors in the expression of social and parental behaviour in canids C. S. Asa | |
| 6. Variation in reproductive suppression among dwarf mongooses: interplay between mechanisms and evolution S. Creel and P. M. Waser | |
| 7. Dynamic optimization, delayed fitness and conditional dispersal decisions among cooperative breeders J. R. Lucas, P. M. Waser, and S. Creel | |
| 8. Examination of alternative hypotheses for cooperative breeding in rodents N. G. Solomon, and L. L. Getz | |
| 9. The psychobiological basis of cooperative breeding in rodents C. S. Carter, and R. L. Roberts | |
| 10. Cooperative breeding in naked mole-rats: implications for vertebrate and invertebrate sociality E. A. Lacey, and P. W. Sherman | |
| 11. The physiology of a reproductive dictatorship: regulation of male and female reproduction by a single breeding female in colonies of naked mole-rats C. G. Faulkes, and D. H. Abbott | |
| 12. Factors influencing the occurrence of communal care in plural breeders S. E. Lewis, and A. E. Pusey | |
| 13. A bird's eye view of mammalian cooperative breeding R. L. Mumme | |
| Index. |
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