Cooperative Breeding in Mammals

Herausgeber: French, Jeffrey A.; Solomon, Nancy G.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Cooperative breeding refers to a social system in which individuals other than the parents provide care for the offspring. In addition to alloparental care, two further characteristics are common among species exhibiting cooperative breeding: delayed dispersal and delayed reproduction. Among vertebrates, cooperative breeding is expressed most prominently in birds and mammals. The book explores the phenomenon in a wide variety of mammals, including rodents, primates, viverrids, and carnivores. Comparative studies of cooperative breeding provide important tests for the origin and maintenance of sociality in complex groups. Understanding the behavioral and physiological mechanisms underlying cooperative breeding yields insights into the fundamental building blocks of social behavior in animal societies. Although several recent volumes have summarized the state of our knowledge of the ecology and evolution of cooperative breeding in birds, Cooperative Breeding in Mammals is the first book devoted to these issues in mammals, and it will appeal to zoologists, ecologists, evolutionary biologists, and those interested in animal behavior.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 812g
• ISBN-13: 9780521454919
• ISBN-10: 0521454913
• Artikelnr.: 22032640

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors; Preface; 1. The study of mammalian cooperative
breeding Nancy G. Solomon and Jeffrey A. French; 2. The bioenergetics of
parental behaviour and the evolution of alloparental care in marmosets and
tamarins Suzette D. Tardif; 3. Proximate regulation of singular breeding in
Callitrichid primates Jeffrey A. French; 4. Cooperative breeding,
reproductive suppression and body size in canids Patricia D. Moehlman and
Heribert Hofer; 5. Hormonal and experiential factors in the expression of
social and parental behaviour in canids Cheryl S. Asa; 6. Variation in
reproductive suppression among dwarf mongooses: interplay between
mechanisms and evolution Scott R. Creel and Peter M. Waser; 7. Dynamic
optimization and cooperative breeding: an evaluation of future fitness
effects Jeffrey R. Lucas, Scott R. Creel and Peter M. Waser; 8. Examination
of alternative hypotheses for cooperative breeding in rodents Nancy G.
Solomon and Lowell L. Getz; 9. The psychobiological basis of cooperative
breeding in rodents C. Sue Carter and R. Lucille Roberts; 10. Cooperative
breeding in naked mole-rats: implications for vertebrate and invertebrate
sociality Eileen A. Lacey and Paul W. Sherman; 11. The physiology of a
reproductive dictatorship: regulation of male and female reproduction by a
single breeding female in colonies of naked mole-rats Christopher G.
Faulkes and David H. Abbott; 12. Factors influencing the occurrence of
communal care in plural breeding mammals Susan E. Lewis and Anne E. Pusey;
13. A bird's-eye view of mammalian cooperative breeding Ronald L. Mumme;
Index.