Cooperative breeding is a social system characterized by alloparental care: offspring receive care not only from their parents, but also from additional...

controlled conditions Cooperative breeding, the raising of the young using non-parental care givers Crossbreeding, the process of breeding an animal with purebred...

can be mutualistic or parasitic, and between or within species. Cooperative breeding, joint brood care, reciprocal allonursing, brood parasitism and cuckoldry...

evolution of cooperative traits because the direction of sex has consequences from the particular mating system. One type of philopatry is breeding philopatry...

contention that helpers obtain both immediate and long-term gains from cooperative breeding. Researchers evaluated the consequences of red wolves' decisions...

Cramp & Perrins 1993, p. 138. Glen, N.W.; Perrins, C.M. (1988). "Cooperative breeding by long-tailed tits" (PDF). British Birds. 81 (12): 630–641. McGowan...

correlate with cooperative breeding in mammals such as alpine marmots and wild canids. This correlation may also apply to cooperatively breeding birds, though...

(care by other than the parents), cooperative (care by non-breeding helpers) and communal (care by other breeding females) care. It occurs in between...

"Helpers improve fledgling body condition in bigger broods of cooperatively breeding African pygmy falcon". Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 73 (4):...

coexist with one another in a way that benefits the entire species. Cooperative breeding, the ability for humans to invest in and help raise others' offspring...

Most cooperative breeding species have helpers at the nest, but acorn woodpeckers are unusual in exhibiting both helping at the nest and cooperative polygamy...

signals, calls, and songs, and participating in such behaviours as cooperative breeding and hunting, flocking, and mobbing of predators. The vast majority...

care for children. Burkart, Hrdy, and Van Schaik (2009) argue that cooperative breeding in humans may have led to the evolution of psychological adaptations...

animals Gaston, A. J. "The evolution of group territorial behavior and cooperative breeding." The American Naturalist 112.988 (1978): 1091-1100. "Atlantic walrus"...

islands. The Seychelles warbler is a rarity in that it exhibits cooperative breeding, or alloparenting, which means that the monogamous pair is assisted...

call on the part of the infants. These species practice facultative cooperative breeding, where a single dominant female reproduces and other group members...

single brood nest by more than one breeding pair. The chestnut-crowned babbler is an obligate cooperatively breeding bird and much of the research on this...

forms of parental care, including bi-parental care and cooperative breeding. Cooperative breeding takes place when parents are helped in raising their offspring...

care within the groups may be due to historic selection against cooperative breeding in the Siberian jay; probably as an anti-predator strategy to avoid...

occasionally crocodiles. Pack hunting is typically associated with cooperative breeding and its concentration in the Afrotropical realm is a reflection of...

the evolution of cooperative breeding, and the distribution of relatives within a population may influence the benefits of cooperative behavior. Females...

group, individuals only acquire breeding positions when the opposite-sex breeder is unrelated. Cooperative breeding in birds typically occurs when offspring...

Except in the rainforest-dwelling hooded and black butcherbirds, cooperative breeding occurs, with many individuals delaying dispersal to rear young. The...

sticks and laying two to five eggs. The pied butcherbird engages in cooperative breeding, with a mated pair sometimes assisted by several helper birds. The...

raptors are solitary, only coming together for breeding and migration, Harris's hawks will hunt in cooperative groups of two to six. This is believed to be...

observed in avian species, most commonly females, who are involved with cooperative breeding or brood parasitism. Among colonial non-co-nesting birds, egg-tossing...

November 2021. Wiley, R. H., & Rabenold, K. N. (1984). The evolution of cooperative breeding by delayed reciprocity and queuing for favorable social positions...

have cooperative breeding systems involving several 'helpers' at each nest, usually relatives of the breeding pair. Increased prolactin in the breeding pair...

contention that helpers obtain both immediate and long-term gains from cooperative breeding. Researchers evaluated the consequences of red wolves' decisions...

trees. During non-breeding season, birds live in flocks of up to 50 individuals. Several bushtit species display cooperative breeding behavior, also called...