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Communal nursing in wild house mice is not a by-product of group living: Females choose
Communal nursing, the provision of milk to non-offspring, has been argued to be a non-adaptive by-product of group living. We used 2 years of field data from a wild house mouse population to investigate this question. Communal nursing never occurred among females that previously lacked overlap in ne...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Springer Berlin Heidelberg
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3893474/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24389536 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00114-013-1130-6 |