Stacey and Koenig discuss the phenomenon of cooperative breeding
among birds, an unusual kind of social behavior common to only a
few hundred species worldwide, in which individuals other than the
male-female pairs help to raise the young of a single nest or den.
Because certain individuals aid in raising offspring which are not
their own, cooperative breeding gives rise to some of the clearest
examples of altruism among animals. This unique breeding behavior
is of interest to evolutionary biologists and behavioral ecologists
since such species exhibit some of the most unusual and bizarre
social behavior observed anywhere in the animal kingdom. The
studies are all long term and consequently the book summarizes some
of the most extensive studies of the behavior of marked individuals
ever undertaken. Graduate students and research workers in
ornithology, sociobiology, behavioral ecology and evolutionary
biology will find much of value in this book.
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