Selfish Pups: Weaning Conflict and Milk Theft in Free-Ranging Dogs.

Parent-offspring conflict theory predicts the emergence of weaning conflict between a mother and her offspring arising from skewed relatedness benefits. Empirical observations of weaning conflict have not been carried out in canids. In a field-based study on free-ranging dogs we observed that nursin...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Manabi Paul, Anindita Bhadra
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0170590&type=printable