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Increased food availability raises eviction rate in a cooperative breeding mammal

In group-living mammals, the eviction of subordinate females from breeding groups by dominants may serve to reduce feeding competition or to reduce breeding competition. Here, we combined both correlational and experimental approaches to investigate whether increases in food intake by dominant femal...

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Autores principales: Dubuc, C., English, S., Thavarajah, N., Dantzer, B., Sharp, S. P., Spence-Jones, H. C., Gaynor, D., Clutton-Brock, T. H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5414692/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28404820
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0961