Helping non-relatives: a role for deceit?
In birds and mammals with ‘helpers-at-the-nest’, some individuals not only feed unrelated offspring, but also compete to do so. Non-adaptive explanations for alloparental care do not predict competition for access to offspring that, in its most extreme form, can include kidnapping young from adjacen...
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1995
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