Evidence for a reproductive sharing continuum in cooperatively breeding mammals and birds: consequences for comparative research
Y. Ben Mocha, T. Dahan, Y. Zou, M. Griesser, S. Markman
The paper shows that extreme reproductive skew is rare in cooperatively breeding species classified with restrictive definitions and provides updated datasets accounting for classification uncertainty.
bioRxiv · May 5, 2023Animal Behavior & Cognition