Market forces influence helping behaviour in cooperatively breeding paper wasps
In cooperatively breeding species, subordinates help to raise the dominant breeders’ offspring in return for benefits associated with group membership. Here, Grinsted and Field show that the amount of help provided by subordinate paper wasps depends on the availability of alternative nesting options...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2017-01-01
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| Series: | Nature Communications |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13750 |