Cooperative child-rearing pays dividends for ruffed lemurs, irrespective of kinship
Posted 23 Aug 2013 / 0Mongabay News “The evolution of cooperation: communal nests are best for ruffed lemurs”
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology “Communal nesting, kinship, and maternal success in a social primate”
What I find particularly interesting about these findings is that they appear to show that kinship — if a factor at all — might well be a byproduct of spatial proximity. Clearly regulated reciprocity is all that is required for these lemurs’ cooperative parenting scheme to work.
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