Helpers compensate for age‐related declines in parental care and offspring survival in a cooperatively breeding bird
Abstract Offspring from elderly parents often have lower survival due to parental senescence. In cooperatively breeding species, where offspring care is shared between breeders and helpers, the alloparental care provided by helpers is predicted to mitigate the impact of parental senescence on offspr...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2021-04-01
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| Series: | Evolution Letters |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1002/evl3.213 |