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Variable ecological conditions promote male helping by changing banded mongoose group composition.
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- Live long and prosper: durable benefits of early-life care in banded mongooses.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Intragroup competition predicts individual foraging specialisation in a group-living mammal.Ecology letters · 2018Article
- Multiple benefits of alloparental care in a fluctuating environment.Royal Society open science · 2018Article
- Biased escorts: offspring sex, not relatedness explains alloparental care patterns in a cooperative breeder.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2017Article
- Lifetime fitness consequences of early-life ecological hardship in a wild mammal population.Ecology and evolution · 2017Article
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Abstract
Ecological conditions are expected to have an important influence on individuals' investment in cooperative care. However, the nature of their effects is unclear: both favorable and unfavorable conditions have been found to promote helping behavior. Recent studies provide a possible explanation for these conflicting results by suggesting that increased ecological variability, rather than changes in mean conditions, promote cooperative care. However, no study has tested whether increased ecological variability promotes individual-level helping behavior or the mechanisms involved. We test this hypothesis in a long-term study population of the cooperatively breeding banded mongoose,
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