Title: Variation in Reproductive Suppression among Dwarf Mongooses: Interplay between Mechanisms and Evolution
Abstract: Cooperative breeders are often divided into two types: plural breeders, in which most or all adults within a group produce young of their own, and singular breeders, in which subordinate group members do not produce young (Brown 1987; Stacey & Koenig 1990). Singular breeders form the majority among communal breeders of most taxa. For example, Brown (1987) classified 89 percent of 111 communally breeding bird species as singular breeders. Singular breeding also predominates among communally breeding carnivores (the focus of this chapter), among which subordinates do not normally raise offspring in 57 percent of 28 social species (Creel & Macdonald 1995).
Publication Year: 1996
Publication Date: 1996-11-28
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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