Nancy G. Solomon / Jeffrey A. French (eds.)

Cooperative Breeding in Mammals

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

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Cooperative breeding refers to a social system in which individuals other than the parents provide care for the offspring. Since individuals delay breeding and invest in the offspring of others, cooperative breeding poses a challenge to a Darwinian explanation of the evolution of social behaviour. The contributors to this book explore the evolutionary, ecological, behavioural and physiological basis of cooperative breeding in mammals. The book contains a collection of chapters by the leading researchers in the field, and it is the first book dedicated exclusively to the study of mammalian cooperative breeding. It will appeal to zoologists, ecologists, evolutionary biologists, and to those interested in animal behaviour.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 660g
• ISBN-13: 9780521038287
• ISBN-10: 0521038286
• Artikelnr.: 22780999

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.