Variable ecological conditions promote male helping by changing banded mongoose group composition

Evidence of oxidative shielding of offspring in a wild mammal

Smelling fit: scent marking exposes parasitic infection status in the banded mongoose

Pregnancy is detected via odour in a wild cooperative breeder

Lifetime fitness consequences of early-life ecological hardship in a wild mammal population

Individual and demographic consequences of mass eviction in cooperative banded mongooses

Explaining negative kin discrimination in a cooperative mammal society

Causes and consequences of intergroup conflict in cooperative banded mongooses

Biased escorts: offspring sex, not relatedness explains alloparental care patterns in a cooperative breeder

Telomere dynamics in wild banded mongooses: Evaluating longitudinal and quasi-longitudinal markers of senescence

Kin discrimination via odour in the cooperatively breeding banded mongoose

Intragroup competition predicts individual foraging specialisation in a group-living mammal

Decoupling of Genetic and Cultural Inheritance in a Wild Mammal

Data collection and storage in long-term ecological and evolutionary studies: the Mongoose 2000 system

A high-quality pedigree and genetic markers both reveal inbreeding depression for quality but not survival in a cooperative mammal

Live long and prosper: durable benefits of early-life care in banded mongooses

Developing differences: early-life effects and evolutionary medicine

Stable isotopes are quantitative indicators of trophic niche

Spontaneous abortion as a response to reproductive conflict in the banded mongoose

Network-level consequences of outgroup threats in banded mongooses: Grooming and aggression between the sexes

Inbreeding depresses altruism in a cooperative society

Exploitative leaders incite intergroup warfare in a social mammal

Extra-group paternity varies with proxies of relatedness in a social mammal with high inbreeding risk

Assessment during intergroup contests

A veil of ignorance can promote fairness in a mammal society

Collective defence and behavioural homogeneity during simulated territorial intrusions in banded mongooses (Mungos mungo)

Kinship dynamics: patterns and consequences of changes in local relatedness

A double pedigree reveals genetic but not cultural inheritance of cooperative personalities in wild banded mongooses

Cooperatively breeding banded mongooses do not avoid inbreeding through familiarity-based kin recognition

Untangling the oxidative cost of reproduction: An analysis in wild banded mongooses

Fighting force and experience combine to determine intergroup contest success in a warlike mammal

Banded mongooses: a life of cooperation and conflict

Reproductive skew and the threat of eviction: a new perspective

A model for the evolution of reproductive skew without reproductive suppression

Indiscriminate infanticide and reproductive skew

Reproductive skew in multi-member groups

Costly young and reproductive skew in animal societies

Social control of reproduction in banded mongooses

Power struggles, dominance testing, and reproductive skew

Female control of paternity in cooperative breeders

Helping effort and future fitness in cooperative animal societies

Helping effort in a dominance hierarchy

Stable group size in cooperative breeders: the role of inheritance and reproductive skew

Self-serving punishment and the evolution of cooperation

Endogenous timing and competitive interactions among relatives

A new perspective on fish size hierarchies: patterns, causes, and consequences

Escalated conflict in a social hierarchy

Reproductive skew and the evolution of group dissolution tactics: a synthesis of concession and restraint models

Sex differences in dispersal and the evolution of helping and harming behavior

Models of reproductive skew – outside options and the resolution of reproductive conflict

How threats influence the evolutionary resolution of within-group conflict

The role of threats in animal cooperation

Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality

Cooperative breeding systems

Segmental concatenation of individual signatures and context cues in banded mongoose (Mungos mungo) close calls

Sex-biased dispersal, haplodiploidy and the evolution of helping in social insects

Suppression of social conflict and evolutionary transitions to cooperation

Demography and social evolution of banded mongooses

Longevity suppresses conflict in animal societies

Resolving social conflict among females without overt aggression

Reproductive suppression

Make way for team mongoose

A tale of two theories: parent-offspring conflict and reproductive skew

The effects of refuse-feeding on home-range use, group size, and intergroup encounters in the banded mongoose

Eviction and dispersal in co-operatively breeding banded mongooses (Mungos mungo)

Indentification and characterization of 14 polymorphic microsatellite loci for a member of the Herprestidae (Mungos mungo)

Fighting and mating between groups in a cooperatively breeding mammal, the banded mongoose

The effects of refuse feeding on body condition, reproduction, and survival of banded mongooses

Patterns of helping effort in co-operatively breeding banded mongooses (Mungos mungo)

Why breed communally? Factors affecting fecundity in a communal breeding mammal: the banded mongoose (Mungos mungo)

Reproductive success in a low skew, communal breeding mammal: the banded mongoose, Mungos mungo

Female eviction, abortion, and infanticide in banded mongooses (Mungos mungo): implications for social control for reproduction and synchronized parturition

Helpers benefit offspring in both the short and long-term in the cooperatively breeding banded mongoose

Who cares? Individual contributions to pup care by breeders vs non-breeders in the cooperatively breeding banded mongoose (Mungos Mungo)

Counting the costs: the evolution of male-biased care in the cooperative breeding banded mongoose

Nasty neighbours’ rather than ‘dear enemies’ in a social carnivore

Mutual recognition of pups and providers in the cooperatively breeding banded mongoose

Scent-marking and intrasexual competition in a cooperative carnivore with low reproductive skew

The information banded mongooses extract from heterospecific alarm calls

Aggressive monoplization of mobile carers by young of a cooperative breeder

Caregivers recognise and bias response towards individual young in a cooperative breeding mammal the banded mongoose

Kidnapping and infanticide between groups of banded mongooses

Strategic adjustment of begging effort by banded mongoose pups

Banded mongoose recruitment calls convey information about risk and not stimulus type

Imitation and traditions in wild banded mongooses

Do anvil-using banded mongooses understand means-end relationships? A field experiment

Maternal weight, offspring competition and the evolution of communal breeding

Reproductive competition and the evolution of extreme birth synchrony in a cooperative mammal

Reproductive control via eviction (but not the threat of eviction) in banded mongooses

Scent marking within and between groups in banded mongooses

Scent marking in wild banded mongooses: 2. Intrasexual marking and competition between males

Top males gain high reproductive success by guarding more successful females in a cooperatively breeding mongoose

Scent marking in wild banded mongooses: 3. Intrasexual marking in females

The cost of dominance: suppressing subordinate reproduction affects the reproductive success of dominant female banded mongooses

Location and group size influence decisions in simulated inter-group encounters in banded mongooses

Scent marking in wild banded mongooses: 1. Sex-specific scent & overmarking

Resource limitation moderates the adaptive suppression of subordinate breeding in a cooperatively breeding mongoose

Sex and age influence responses to changes in the cost of cooperative care in a social carnivore

Food availability shapes patterns of helping effort in a cooperative mongoose

How do banded mongoose locate and select anvils for cracking encased food items?

Variable initiators of group departure in a cooperative breeder: the influence of sex, age, state and foraging success

Fine-scale spatiotemporal patterns of genetic variation reflect budding dispersal coupled with strong natal philopatry in a cooperatively breeding mammal

Hormonal mediation of a carry-over effect in a wild cooperative mammal

Testing for vocal individual discrimination in adult banded mongooses

Policing of reproduction by hidden threats in a cooperative mammal

Oxidative shielding and the cost of reproduction

Suppressing subordinate reproduction provides benefits to dominants in cooperative societies of meerkats

Adjustment of costly extra-group paternity according to inbreeding risk in a cooperative mammal

Evidence for frequent incest in a cooperatively breeding mammal

The origins of consistent individual differences in cooperation in wild banded mongooses

Banded mongooses avoid inbreeding when mating with members of the same group

Strategic use of male alternative reproductive tactics in cooperatively breeding banded mongoose groups

Reproduction is driven by seasonal environmental variation in an equatorial mammal, the banded mongoose (Mungos mungo)

Indirect evidence of an early mating advantage in wild cooperatively breeding male banded mongooses

Lifetime trajectories of male mating effort under reproductive conflict in a cooperatively breeding mammal

Fitness incentives to male fighters undermine fighting performance in intergroup contests

Small increases in ambient temperature reduce offspring body mass in an equatorial mammal

Caregiver's cognitive traits are associated with pup fitness in a cooperatively breeding mammal

The social formation of fitness: lifetime consequences of prenatal nutrition and postnatal care in a wild mammal population

Patterns and consequences of age-linked change in local relatedness in animal societies

Variation in Lipid Peroxidation in the Ejaculates of Wild Banded Mongooses (Mungos mungo): A Test of the Oxidative Shielding Hypothesis

Testing the acoustic adaptation hypothesis with vocalizations from three mongoose species

Reproductive conflict and the evolution of menopause