Experimental manipulation of helping in a cooperative breeder: helpers ‘pay to stay’ by pre-emptive appeasement

By Ralph Bergmüller, M. Taborsky. 2005

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. M. Taborsky
2. R. Bruintjes
3. J. Komdeur
4. Dik Heg
5. B. Taborsky
6. Eva Skubic
7. L. Brouwer
8. H. Brockmann

In Social Psychology

1. R. Bruintjes
2. Dik Heg
3. M. Taborsky
4. J. Komdeur
5. L. Brouwer
6. Eva Skubic
7. B. Taborsky
8. S. Balshine

In Sociology and Political Science

1. M. Taborsky
2. Dik Heg
3. R. Bruintjes
4. J. Komdeur
5. L. Brouwer
6. H. Brockmann
7. S. Balshine
8. C. O’Connor

Citations in the corpus

• Alternative reproductive tactics and life history phenotypes (2010, background): “…phenotypes 543 Experiments revealed that helpers pay to stay in the territory of dominant breeders (Taborsky 1985, Balshine-Earn et al. 1998, Bergmüller and Taborsky 2005, Bergmüller et al. 2005, Bruintjes and Taborsky 2008), which serves to increase their survival chances due to the…”
• Large group size yields group stability in the cooperatively breeding cichlid Neolamprologus pulcher (2005, background): “There is also evidence suggesting helpers pay the breeders for being allowed to stay inside the group (Taborsky, 1984, 1985; Balshine-Earn et al., 1998; Bergmüller et al., 2005a; Bergmüller & Taborsky, 2005).”
• Sex differences in rates of territory joining and inheritance in a cooperatively breeding cichlid fish (2006, background): “…help primarily as a means of paying rent to breeders, (pay-to-stay theory: Gaston 1978), unrelated individuals might actually be expected to ‘pay’ more (Balshine-Earn et al. 1998; Kokko et al. 2002; Bergmüller & Taborsky 2004; Bergmüller et al. 2005; Hamilton & Taborsky 2005; Stiver et al. 2005).”
• Context-dependent impacts of anthropogenic noise on individual and social behaviour in a cooperatively breeding fish (2013, background): “Subordinate individuals show submissive behaviours towards the dominant individuals (Hamilton et al. 2005; Bruintjes & Taborsky 2008), and dominants exhibit aggressive displays towards subordinates (Taborsky 1985; Bergmüller & Taborsky 2005).”
• Variation in Individual Investment Strategies among Social Animals (2006, background): “…& Johnstone 1997; Mock & Parker 1997; Wright & Leonard 2002), and within-group conflict (e.g. whether dominant breeders can make subordinates to ‘pay-to-stay’ for continued group membership, Gaston 1978; Taborsky 1984, 1985; Mulder & Langmore 1993; Kokko et al. 2002; Bergmüller & Taborsky 2005).”
• Size differences within a dominance hierarchy influence conflict and help in a cooperatively breeding cichlid (2005, background): “In other experimental studies with N. pulcher, subordinates placed in conflict with breeders (by being prevented from helping) increased their rates of submissive displays (Balshine-Earn et al., 1998; Bergmüller & Taborsky, 2005) and help (Bergmüller & Taborsky, 2005).”
• Social experience in early ontogeny has lasting effects on social skills in cooperatively breeding cichlids (2010, unknown): “They pay rent for being allowed to stay in the territory by joining in brood care (Taborsky 1984, 1985; Balshine-Earn et al. 1998; Bergmüller et al. 2005; Bergmüller & Taborsky 2005).”
• Effects of isotocin on social responses in a cooperatively breeding fish (2012, background): “Similarly, Braida et al. (2012) found that zebrafish showed greater social motivation after treatment with isotocin.”
• Cichlid fishes: A model for the integrative study of social behavior (2016, background): “Compensatory responses of helpers to prevented help, but without manipulation of the dominants’ behavior, were also revealed by other laboratory and fi eld experiments (Bergmüller and Taborsky 2005 ; Fischer et al.”
• Experimental evidence for helper effects in a cooperatively breeding cichlid (2005, background): “Helping may be a consequence of staying in the natal territory, when individuals pay by helping for being allowed to stay while waiting for future breeding opportunities (BalshineEarn et al., 1998; Bergmüller and Taborsky, 2005; Emlen, 1982; Gaston, 1978; Mulder and Langmore, 1993; Taborsky, 1984).”
• Mothers adjust egg size to helper number in a cooperatively breeding cichlid (2007, background): “…has been studied intensively regarding the ecological and social determinants of cooperative breeding (Taborsky and Limberger 1981; Taborsky 1984, 1985; Balshine et al. 2001; Heg et al. 2004, 2005; Stiver et al. 2004; Bergmüller et al. 2005; Bergmüller and Taborsky 2005; Dierkes et al. 2005).”
• Extended safe havens and between-group dispersal of helpers in a cooperatively breeding cichlid (2005, background): “Experiments in the laboratory (Taborsky, 1985; Bergmüller et al., 2005; Bergmüller & Taborsky, 2005) and field (BalshineEarn et al., 1998) suggest that helpers pay by helping behaviour for being allowed to stay.”
• Size-dependent task specialization in a cooperative cichlid in response to experimental variation of demand (2011, background): “Experimental evidence suggests that pay to stay is an important mechanism for subordinate helping behaviour in N. pulcher (Taborsky 1984, 1985; Balshine-Earn et al. 1998; Bergmüller & Taborsky 2005; Bergmüller et al. 2005a; Stiver et al. 2005; Bruintjes & Taborsky 2008).”