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    Growth affects dispersal success in social mole-rats, but not the duration of philopatry

    Miquel Torrents-Ticó, Nigel C. Bennett, Jennifer U. M. Jarvis, Markus Zöttl
    Biol. Lett. 2018 14 20180005; DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2018.0005. Published 21 February 2018
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    Limited support for the X-linked grandmother hypothesis in pre-industrial Finland

    Simon N. Chapman, Jenni E. Pettay, Virpi Lummaa, Mirkka Lahdenperä
    Biol. Lett. 2018 14 20170651; DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2017.0651. Published 10 January 2018
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    Pregnancy is detected via odour in a wild cooperative breeder

    J. Mitchell, M. A. Cant, H. J. Nichols
    Biol. Lett. 2017 13 20170441; DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2017.0441. Published 22 November 2017
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    Ospreys do not teach offspring how to kill prey at the nest

    Megan Howard, Will Hoppitt
    Biol. Lett. 2017 13 20170346; DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2017.0346. Published 23 August 2017
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    Variation in growth of Damaraland mole-rats is explained by competition rather than by functional specialization for different tasks

    Markus Zöttl, Jack Thorley, David Gaynor, Nigel C. Bennett, Tim Clutton-Brock
    Biol. Lett. 2016 12 20160820; DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0820. Published 14 December 2016
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    Proactive prosociality in a cooperatively breeding corvid, the azure-winged magpie (Cyanopica cyana)

    Lisa Horn, Clara Scheer, Thomas Bugnyar, Jorg J. M. Massen
    Biol. Lett. 2016 12 20160649; DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0649. Published 18 October 2016
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    Nepotism and subordinate tenure in a cooperative breeder

    Martha J. Nelson-Flower, Amanda R. Ridley
    Biol. Lett. 2016 12 20160365; DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0365. Published 23 August 2016
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    The cost of prospecting for dispersal opportunities in a social bird

    Sjouke A. Kingma, Jan Komdeur, Martijn Hammers, David S. Richardson
    Biol. Lett. 2016 12 20160316; DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0316. Published 21 June 2016
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    Elevated glucocorticoid concentrations during gestation predict reduced reproductive success in subordinate female banded mongooses

    J. L. Sanderson, H. J. Nichols, H. H. Marshall, E. I. K. Vitikainen, F. J. Thompson, S. L. Walker, M. A. Cant, A. J. Young
    Biol. Lett. 2015 11 20150620; DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2015.0620. Published 28 October 2015
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    The fitness consequences of kin-biased dispersal in a cooperatively breeding bird

    Lea Pollack, Dustin R. Rubenstein
    Biol. Lett. 2015 11 20150336; DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2015.0336. Published 15 July 2015

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