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The document is a commentary by Jason S. Gilchrist on cooperative breeding systems in vertebrates, responding to a review by Bergmüller et al. (2007). It discusses the costs and benefits of alloparental care, critiques the terminology used in cooperative breeding literature, and emphasizes the need for integrating game-theoretical approaches into studies of cooperative behavior. Gilchrist highlights the importance of considering communal breeding species and reevaluating reproductive skew theories, while also addressing challenges in evaluating costs and benefits within long-lived vertebrate groups.

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What does cooperative breeding mean?

Cooperative breeding can be a relatively simple arrangement of one or more offspring temporarily staying home to help their parents, or an extraordinarily socially complex plural breeding that includes several breeding pairs living together in a large group along with related and unrelated helpers of both sexes.

What are some examples of cooperative behavior?

In some species individuals altruistically delay their chance of reproducing to help others raise their young. This is commonly referred to as cooperative breeding and is widespread across the animal kingdom, occurring in insects, crustaceans, fish, birds, and mammals, including humans (1, 2).

What is an example of cooperative breeding?

Cooperative breeders may exhibit shared maternity, shared paternity, or both. The best-studied North American cooperative breeders, the Scrub-Jay, Gray-breasted (Mexican) Jay, Groove-billed Ani, and Acorn Woodpecker, differ from each other in the details of their breeding biology.

What is cooperative breeding in humans?

Cooperative breeding refers to a social system in which multiple kin, such as fathers, grandmothers, and siblings, assist in the rearing of human children, influenced by ecological factors and variability in different populations.

What is the cooperative breeding theory?

Cooperation is a behavioral adaptation that has evolved as an alternative to competition through evolutionary pressures. Cooperative behaviors are seen in animals cooperating to hunt, defend territory, attract mates, or form coalitions within their group.

What is cooperative behavior in animals?

Cooperative behavior refers to the act of individuals or groups working together towards a common goal, ensuring that no one group benefits at the expense of others.

What is the cooperative breeding strategy?

Cooperative breeding entails one or more individuals, usually females, acting as helpers to one or a few dominant female breeders, usually helpers kin. This sociosexual system is rare in primates, so far demonstrated among Neotropical callitricids, including marmosets and tamarins.

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