Reproductive competition triggers mass eviction in cooperative banded mongooses
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Thompson, F. J., Marshall, H. H., Sanderson, J. L., Vitikainen, E. I. K., Nichols, H. J., Gilchrist, J. S., …Cant, M. A. (2016)
Reproductive competition triggers mass eviction in cooperative banded mongooses. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 283(1826), 20152607. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.2607
In many vertebrate societies, forced eviction of group members is an important determinant of population structure, but little is known about what triggers eviction. Three mai...
The cost of dominance: suppressing subordinate reproduction affects the reproductive success of dominant female banded mongooses.
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Bell, M. B. V., Nichols, H. J., Gilchrist, J., Cant, M. A., & Hodge, S. J. (2012)
The cost of dominance: suppressing subordinate reproduction affects the reproductive success of dominant female banded mongooses. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 279, 619-624. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2011.1093
Social species show considerable variation in the extent to which dominant females suppress subordinate reproduction. Much of this variation may be influenced by the cost of a...
Reproductive control via eviction (but not the threat of eviction) in banded mongooses
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Cant, M. A., Hodge, S. J., Bell, M. B. V., Gilchrist, J., & Nichols, H. J. (2010)
Reproductive control via eviction (but not the threat of eviction) in banded mongooses. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 277, 2219-2226. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2009.2097
Considerable research has focused on understanding variation in reproductive skew in cooperative animal societies, but the pace of theoretical development has far outstripped ...
Aggressive monopolization of mobile carers by young of a cooperative breeder
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Gilchrist, J. (2008)
Aggressive monopolization of mobile carers by young of a cooperative breeder. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 275, 2491-2498. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2008.0597
Competition between young of the same brood or litter is of particular interest in the fields of behavioural and evolutionary ecology, because the competing individuals are li...
Caregivers recognize and bias response towards individual young in a cooperative breeding mammal, the banded mongoose
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Gilchrist, J., Otali, E., & Mwanguhya, F. (2008)
Caregivers recognize and bias response towards individual young in a cooperative breeding mammal, the banded mongoose. Journal of Zoology, 275, 41-46. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.2007.00405.x
In research on parental care and cooperative breeding an issue is whether caregivers recognize individual young and therefore preferentially care for those young that will max...
Cooperative behaviour in cooperative breeders: Costs, benefits, and communal breeding.
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Gilchrist, J. (2007)
Cooperative behaviour in cooperative breeders: Costs, benefits, and communal breeding. Behavioural Processes, 76, 100-105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2006.12.013
[Critical review of: R. Bergmüller, R. Johnstone, A. Russell and R. Bshary, Integrating cooperative breeding into theoretical concepts of cooperation, Behav. Process. 76 (2) 2...