Load‐lightening in cooperatively breeding birds and the cost of reproduction

By H. Crick. 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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Citations in the corpus

• The cost of being alone: the fate of floaters in a population of cooperatively breeding pied babblers Turdoides bicolor (2008, background): “This is due to the benefits of group-living, including resource defence (Clutton-Brock et al. 1999), increased predator detection (Hass and Valenzuela 2002), greater reproductive output (Mumme 1992, Boland et al. 1997), and energetic savings ( Crick 1992 ), with experimental evidence suggesting that”