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Title

Cooperative breeding in mammals / edited by Nancy G. Solomon, Jeffrey A. French.

Publication

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

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Additional Authors

• Solomon, Nancy G.
• French, Jeffrey A.

Description

xiii, 390 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• Cooperative breeding refers to a social system in which individuals other than the parents provide care for the offspring. In addition to alloparental care, two further characteristics are common among species exhibiting cooperative breeding: delayed dispersal and delayed reproduction. Among vertebrates, cooperative breeding is expressed most prominently in birds and mammals. The book explores the phenomenon in a wide variety of mammals, including rodents, primates, viverrids, and carnivores.
• Comparative studies of cooperative breeding provide important tests for the origin and maintenance of sociality in complex groups. Understanding the behavioral and physiological mechanisms underlying cooperative breeding yields insights into the fundamental building blocks of social behavior in animal societies.
• . Although several recent volumes have summarized the state of our knowledge of the ecology and evolution of cooperative breeding in birds, Cooperative Breeding in Mammals is the first book devoted to these issues in mammals, and it will appeal to zoologists, ecologists, evolutionary biologists, and those interested in animal behavior.

Subject

• Mammals > Behavior
• Cooperative breeding in animals

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. The Study of Mammalian Cooperative Breeding / Nancy G. Solomon and Jeffrey A. French -- 2. The Bioenergetics of Parental Behavior and the Evolution of Alloparental Care in Marmosets and Tamarins / Suzette D. Tardif -- 3. Proximate Regulation of Singular Breeding in Callitrichid Primates / Jeffrey A. French -- 4. Cooperative Breeding, Reproductive Suppression, and Body Mass in Canids / Patricia D. Moehlman and Heribert Hofer -- 5. Hormonal and Experiential Factors in the Expression of Social and Parental Behavior in Canids / Cheryl S. Asa -- 6. Variation in Reproductive Suppression among Dwarf Mongooses: Interplay between Mechanisms and Evolution / Scott R. Creel and Peter M. Waser -- 7. Dynamic Optimization and Cooperative Breeding: An Evaluation of Future Fitness Effects / Jeffrey R. Lucas, Scott R. Creel and Peter M. Waser -- 8. Examination of Alternative Hypotheses for Cooperative Breeding in Rodents / Nancy G. Solomon and Lowell L. Getz --
• 9. The Psychobiological Basis of Cooperative Breeding in Rodents / C. Sue Carter and R. Lucille Roberts -- 10. Cooperative Breeding in Naked Mole-Rats: Implications for Vertebrate and Invertebrate Sociality / Eileen A. Lacey and Paul W. Sherman -- 11. The Physiology of a Reproductive Dictatorship: Regulation of Male and Female Reproduction by a Single Breeding Female in Colonies of Naked Mole-Rats / Christopher G. Faulkes and David H. Abbott -- 12. Factors Influencing the Occurrence of Communal Care in Plural Breeding Mammals / Susan E. Lewis and Anne E. Pusey -- 13. A Bird's-Eye View of Mammalian Cooperative Breeding / Ronald L. Mumme.

ISBN

0521454913 (hc)

LCCN

96017982

OCLC

• 35235825
• ocm35235825

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries