Reproductive competition triggers mass eviction in cooperative banded mongooses (2016)
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Thompson, F. J., Marshall, H. H., Sanderson, J. L., Vitikainen, E. I. K., Nichols, H. J., Gilchrist, J. S., Young, A. J., Hodge, S. J., & Cant, M. A. (2016). Reproductive competition triggers mass eviction in cooperative banded mongooses. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 283(1826), 20152607. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.2607

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 c... Read More about Reproductive competition triggers mass eviction in cooperative banded mongooses.

The cost of dominance: suppressing subordinate reproduction affects the reproductive success of dominant female banded mongooses. (2012)
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Bell, M. B. V., Nichols, H. J., Gilchrist, J., Cant, M. A., & Hodge, S. J. (2012). The cost of dominance: suppressing subordinate reproduction affects the reproductive success of dominant female banded mongooses. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 279, 619-624. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2011.1093

Social species show considerable variation in the extent to which dominant females suppress subordinate reproduction. Much of this variation may be influenced by the cost of active suppression to dominants, who may be selected to balance the need to... Read More about The cost of dominance: suppressing subordinate reproduction affects the reproductive success of dominant female banded mongooses..

Reproductive control via eviction (but not the threat of eviction) in banded mongooses (2010)
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Cant, M. A., Hodge, S. J., Bell, M. B. V., Gilchrist, J., & Nichols, H. J. (2010). Reproductive control via eviction (but not the threat of eviction) in banded mongooses. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 277, 2219-2226. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2009.2097

Considerable research has focused on understanding variation in reproductive skew in cooperative animal societies, but the pace of theoretical development has far outstripped empirical testing of the models. One major class of model suggests that dom... Read More about Reproductive control via eviction (but not the threat of eviction) in banded mongooses.

Aggressive monopolization of mobile carers by young of a cooperative breeder (2008)
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Gilchrist, J. (2008). Aggressive monopolization of mobile carers by young of a cooperative breeder. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 275, 2491-2498. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2008.0597

Competition between young of the same brood or litter is of particular interest in the fields of behavioural and evolutionary ecology, because the competing individuals are likely to be closely related, where evolutionary theory predicts a greater de... Read More about Aggressive monopolization of mobile carers by young of a cooperative breeder.

Caregivers recognize and bias response towards individual young in a cooperative breeding mammal, the banded mongoose (2008)
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Gilchrist, J., Otali, E., & Mwanguhya, F. (2008). Caregivers recognize and bias response towards individual young in a cooperative breeding mammal, the banded mongoose. Journal of Zoology, 275(1), 41-46. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.2007.00405.x

In research on parental care and cooperative breeding an issue is whether caregivers recognize individual young and therefore preferentially care for those young that will maximize inclusive fitness gains. This field study experimentally evaluates wh... Read More about Caregivers recognize and bias response towards individual young in a cooperative breeding mammal, the banded mongoose.

Cooperative behaviour in cooperative breeders: Costs, benefits, and communal breeding (2007)
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Gilchrist, J. S. (2007). Cooperative behaviour in cooperative breeders: Costs, benefits, and communal breeding. Behavioural Processes, 76(2), 100-105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2006.12.013

[Critical review of: R. Bergmüller, R. Johnstone, A. Russell and R. Bshary, Integrating cooperative breeding into theoretical concepts of cooperation, Behav. Process. 76 (2) 2007: 61-72.] In this issue, Bergmüller et al., 2007 ... have provided a val... Read More about Cooperative behaviour in cooperative breeders: Costs, benefits, and communal breeding.