Experimental evidence for fully additive care among male carers in the cooperatively breeding chestnut-crowned babbler
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Experimental evidence for fully additive care among male carers in the cooperatively breeding chestnut-crowned babbler
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.02.024 0003-3472/© 2016 The Authors. Published on behalf license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Although theory developed to understand carer response rules in cooperative breeders typically predicts partial compensation, where additional investment by one carer is optimally met by incomplete reductions by the other, fully additive care is...
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عنوان ژورنال: Animal Behaviour
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0003-3472
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.02.024