Yitzchak Ben Mocha

Females cooperate, rather than monopolize reproduction, in multi-female groups of cooperatively breeding birds and mammals.

Scholars have long sought to understand why, in some cooperatively breeding species, females care for the offspring of other group members while forgoing their own reproduction. Here, we analysed data from 101 cooperatively breeding populations of 73 bird and mammal species to advance research on this question. First,...