Animal Behavior & CognitionbioRxiv
The development of individual differences in cooperative behaviour: maternal glucocorticoid hormones alter helping behaviour of offspring in wild meerkats
B. Dantzer, C. Dubuc, I. Braga Goncalves…·T. H. Clutton-Brock
This study shows that maternal cortisol during pregnancy in meerkats reduces offspring growth and increases cooperative behavior in daughters but not sons.
DOI 10.1098/rstb.2018.0117