Breeding success in cooperative meerkats: effects of helper number and maternal state

By Andrew F. Russell, P. Brotherton, G. Mcilrath, L. Sharpe, T. H. Clutton-Brock. 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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Behavioural tactics of breeders in cooperative meerkats (2004, background): “…of 2e40 individuals and include a dominant female, who produces up to four litters of three to eight pups per year (Clutton-Brock et al. 2001b; Russell et al. 2003a), and a dominant male who is the father of almost all of her Correspondence: T. H. Clutton-Brock, Department of Zoology,…”
Rank differences in energy intake rates in white-faced capuchin monkeys, Cebus capucinus: the effects of contest competition (2005, background): “…1988 for review), offspring survival (chacma baboons: Busse 1982; Bulger and Hamilton 1987; savannah baboons: Altmann and Alberts 2003b; meerkats: Russell et al. 2003), spatial positioning in the group (wedge-capped capuchin monkeys and Robinson 1981; long-tailed macaques: van Noordwijk and van…”
Mothers adjust egg size to helper number in a cooperatively breeding cichlid (2007, background): “, Legge 2000), which may reduce the energy expenditure of breeder females and/or may increase their opportunities for feeding (Taborsky 1984; Cockburn 1998; Balshine et al. 2001; Russell et al. 2003).”
Aggression and submission reflect reproductive conflict between females in cooperatively breeding meerkats Suricata suricatta (2006, background): “Previous studies have shown that individuals older than 6 months contribute to pup care more often than do individuals of less than 6 months and that their contribution level is comparable with that of adult subordinates (Clutton-Brock et al. 2001, 2002; Russell et al. 2003).”