ArticleRoyal Society open science2021
Non-kin adoption in the common vampire bat.
Article in Royal Society open science, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- A field guide for sampling bats (Chiroptera) for eco-epidemiological studies.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2025Review
- Male adoption in the black and gold howler monkey (Alouatta caraya).Primates; journal of primatology · 2025Article
- Eviction-driven infanticide and sexually selected adoption and infanticide in a neotropical parrot.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Hierarchically embedded scales of movement shape the social networks of vampire bats.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Forced proximity promotes the formation of enduring cooperative relationships in vampire bats.Biology letters · 2022Article
- Gene losses in the common vampire bat illuminate molecular adaptations to blood feeding.Science advances · 2022Article
- Social convergence of gut microbiomes in vampire bats.Biology letters · 2021Article
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Abstract
Individual animals across many different species occasionally 'adopt' unrelated, orphaned offspring. Although adoption may be best explained as a by-product of adaptive traits that enhance parental care or promote the development of parental skills, one factor that is possibly important for the likelihood of adoption is the history of cooperative interactions between the mother, adopted offspring and adopter. Using 652 h of behavioural samples collected over four months, we describe patterns of allogrooming and food sharing before and after an instance of non-kin adoption between two adult female common vampire bats (
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