Costs and benefits of group foraging in cooperatively breeding meerkats
One common argument concerning the ultimate constraint on group size in non-cooperative social species is that there are costs of sociality due to foraging competition. However, in cooperatively breeding species, both adult survival and the reproductive success of breeders generally increase with gr...
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University of Cambridge
2000
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.596373 |