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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
Contributions to cooperative rearing in meerkats
Animal Behaviour, Volume 61, No. 4, Year 2001
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In vertebrate societies where young are reared communally, nonbreeding helpers are usually closely related to young but often vary widely in their contributions to feeding them. Evolutionary explanations of helping behaviour have focused on whether differences in the level of contributions between helpers are related to variation in kinship. We investigated the contribution of helpers in meerkats, Suricata suricatta. The helpers varied widely in the number of food items they gave to pups and individual differences were related to variation in foraging success as well as to sex and age. When we controlled the influence of these variables, the level of contributions that helpers made to rearing pups was not significantly correlated with variation in kinship to the litters they were rearing. © 2001 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour.
Authors & Co-Authors
Clutton-Brock, Tim H.
United Kingdom, Cambridge
University of Cambridge
Brotherton, Peter Nicolas Meade
United Kingdom, Cambridge
University of Cambridge
O'Riain, M. Justin
South Africa, Pretoria
University of Pretoria
Griffin, Ashleigh S.
United Kingdom, Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh
Gaynor, David
South Africa, Pretoria
University of Pretoria
Kansky, Ruth
South Africa, Pretoria
University of Pretoria
Sharpe, Lynda L.
South Africa, Pretoria
University of Pretoria
McIlrath, Grant M.
South Africa, Pretoria
University of Pretoria
Statistics
Citations: 220
Authors: 8
Affiliations: 3
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1006/anbe.2000.1631
ISSN:
00033472
Research Areas
Food Security