Rodent Societies: An Ecological & Evolutionary Perspective

inS. lateralismay have functional value in the context of mate choice, but they appear to have no value in the context of nepoti ...

The production component—Odors as cues to relatedness Although it is widely recognized that odors can mediate kin recognition in ...

multiple matrilines but all workers acquire similar odors upon eclosion (see Keller 1997). Nonolfactory cues may also be used to ...

infer something about kin recognition (e.g., mothers cannot recognize their own offspring), but we caution that an ap- propriate ...

investigating their unfamiliar genetic father than an un- familiar, unrelated adult male, demonstrating daughter- father recogni ...

Social Behavior ...

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W e describe waysin which male and female rodents invest in their young and consider fac- tors that might influence the level of ...

not a specific category of parental behavior, “time in nest” often provides an estimate of overall direct parental care (table 2 ...

natural environments (Getz et al. 1992). Parental defense against small predators also has been reported for free-living black-t ...

in frequency over the next few days, and eventually stops (McGuire and Novak 1984, 1986). Despite the apparent independence of p ...

tion is that mothers of large litters may need to spend more time outside the nest foraging to meet nutritional demands associat ...

male offspring spent more time than female offspring suck- ing from the highest-yielding teats, although this pattern appeared t ...

their investment (Marinelli and Messier 1995). When male rodents provide care for young, decreased maternal behav- ior in the pr ...

their pups developed slightly faster (Wang 1991). In still other species, such as naked mole-rats, it is not known whether allop ...

In addition to seasonal variation in patterns of parental care within a species, there may also be geographic varia- tion. Inexp ...

(see table 20.3 for definitions of testing environments; also see Brown 1993). Offspring survival, growth, and age at eye openin ...

Evolution of Paternal Behavior in Voles Males of some arvicoline species exhibit care behaviors un- reported in other species of ...

To further study the evolution of paternal care, it is first important to increase the number of taxa for which com- parable beh ...

W hether conspecifics live aloneor in groups has important implications for numerous aspects of behavior, including the nature a ...