Cooperative breeding is a social system characterized by alloparental care: offspring receive care not only from their parents, but also from additional...

controlled conditions Cooperative breeding, the raising of the young using non-parental care givers Crossbreeding, the process of breeding an animal with purebred...

can be mutualistic or parasitic, and between or within species. Cooperative breeding, joint brood care, reciprocal allonursing, brood parasitism and cuckoldry...

evolution of cooperative traits because the direction of sex has consequences from the particular mating system. One type of philopatry is breeding philopatry...

contention that helpers obtain both immediate and long-term gains from cooperative breeding. Researchers evaluated the consequences of red wolves' decisions...

correlate with cooperative breeding in mammals such as alpine marmots and wild canids. This correlation may also apply to cooperatively breeding birds, though...

coexist with one another in a way that benefits the entire species. Cooperative breeding, the ability for humans to invest in and help raise others' offspring...

(care by other than the parents), cooperative (care by non-breeding helpers) and communal (care by other breeding females) care. It occurs in between...

signals, calls, and songs, and participating in such behaviours as cooperative breeding and hunting, flocking, and mobbing of predators. The vast majority...

care for children. Burkart, Hrdy, and Van Schaik (2009) argue that cooperative breeding in humans may have led to the evolution of psychological adaptations...