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Reproductive competition triggers mass eviction in cooperative banded mongooses

In many vertebrate societies, forced eviction of group members is an important determinant of population structure, but little is known about what triggers eviction. Three main explanations are: (i) the reproductive competition hypothesis, (ii) the coercion of cooperation hypothesis, and (iii) the a...

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Autores principales: Thompson, Faye J., Marshall, Harry H., Sanderson, Jennifer L., Vitikainen, Emma I. K., Nichols, Hazel J., Gilchrist, Jason S., Young, Andrew J., Hodge, Sarah J., Cant, Michael A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4810850/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26936245
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.2607