Contributions to cooperative rearing in meerkats

被引：158
作者：
Clutton-Brock, TH
Brotherton, PNM
O'Riain, MJ
Griffin, AS
Gaynor, D
Kansky, R
Sharpe, L
McIlrath, GM
机构：
[1] Univ Cambridge, Dept Zool, Large Anim Res Grp, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, England
[2] Univ Pretoria, Mammal Res Grp, ZA-0002 Pretoria, South Africa
[3] Univ Edinburgh, Inst Cell Anim & Populat Biol, Ashworth Labs, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, Midlothian, Scotland
来源：
ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR | 2001年 / 61卷
基金：
英国生物技术与生命科学研究理事会; 英国自然环境研究理事会;
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D O I：
10.1006/anbe.2000.1631
中图分类号：
B84 [心理学]; C [社会科学总论]; Q98 [人类学];
学科分类号：
03 ; 0303 ; 030303 ; 04 ; 0402 ;
摘要：
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. (C) 2001 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour.
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页数：6
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