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Cooperative breeding in vertebrates : studies of ecology, evolution, and behavior / edited by Walter D. Koenig, Janis L. Dickinson, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University ; with illustrations by Stef den Ridder.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Parental behavior in animals.
- Animal societies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 379 pages) : illlustrations (some color.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- Contents:
- Siberian jays: delayed dispersal in the absence of cooperative breeding / Jan Ekman and Michael Griesser
- Western bluebirds: lessons from a marginal cooperative breeder / Janis L. Dickinson, Caglar Akcay, Elise D. Ferree, and Caitlin A. Stern
- Long-tailed tits: ecological causes and fitness consequences of redirected helping / Ben J. Hatchwell
- Red-cockaded woodpeckers: alternative pathways to breeding success / Jeffrey R. Walters and Victoria Garcia
- Florida scrub-jays: oversized territories and group defense in a fire-maintained habitat / John W. Fitzpatrick and Reed Bowman
- Carrion crows: family living and helping in a flexible social system / Vittorio Baglione and Daniela Canestrari
- Southern pied babblers: the dynamics of conflict and cooperation in a group-living society / Amanda R. Ridley
- Superb fairy-wrens: making the worst of a good job / Andrew Cockburn, Lyanne Brouwer, Nicolas Margraf, Helen L. Osmond, and Martijn van de Pol
- Chestnut-crowned babblers: dealing with climatic adversity and uncertainty in the Australian arid zone / Andrew F. Russell
- Bell miners: kin-selected helping decisions / Jonathan Wright and Paul G. McDonald
- Superb starlings: cooperation and confluct in an unpredictable environment / Dustin R. Rubenstein
- Seychelles warblers: Complexities of the helping paradox / Jan Komedeur, Terry Burke, Hannah Dugdale, and David S. Richardson
- Acorn woodpeckers: helping at the nest, polygynandry, and dependence on a variable acorn crop / Walter D. Koenig, Eric L. Walters, and Joseph Haydock
- Taiwan yuhinas: unrelated joint-nesters cooperate in unfavorable environments / Sheng-Feng Shen, Hsiao-Wei Yuan, and Mark Liu
- Guira cuckoos: cooperation, infanticide, and female reproductive investment in a joint-nesting species / Regina H. Macedo
- Cichlid fishes: a model for the integrative study of social behavior / Michael Taborsky
- Meerkats: cooperative breeding in the Kalahari / Tim Clutton-Brock and Marta Manser
- Banded mongooses: demography, life history, and social behavior / Michael A. Cant, Hazel J. Nichols, Faye J. Thompson, and Emma Vitakainen
- Damaraland and naked mole-rats: convergence of social evolution / Chris G. Faulkes and Nigel C. Bennett
- Synthesis: cooperative breeding in the twenty-first century / Walter D. Koenig, Janis L. Dickinson, and Stephen T. Emlen.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Clarence J. Marshall Memorial Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781107338357 (electronic bk.)
- 1107338352 (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 99993281667
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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