Group Mobbing Behaviour and Nest Defence in a Cooperatively Breeding Australian Bird

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Experimental evidence of reciprocal altruism in the pied flycatcher (2008, background): “Mobbing is the joint assault on a predator performed by prey individuals in an attempt to disable or drive it from the vicinity (Arnold 2000; Curio 1978; Desrochers et al. 2002; Dominey 1983; Shedd 1983).”
Division of labour within cooperatively breeding groups (2005, methodology): “Many more birds joined in mobbing (up to 16 helpers) than in provisioning (up to six helpers; Arnold, 2000), but many of these were not identified as performing the close range mobbing recorded in the current study.”
Mobbing behaviour in birds: costs and reciprocity based cooperation (2007, background): “While mobbing, birds assemble around a stationary or moving predator, change locations frequently, perform stereotyped wing and/or tail movements and emit loud calls (Curio 1978, Curio et al. 1978, Shalter 1978, Dominey 1983, Shedd 1983, Arnold 2000).”