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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Main Authors: Lena Grinsted, Jeremy Field
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/0d6da4c57ae84aec9b13a275440f9cfb
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