Ultimate and Proximate Explanations of Helping Behavior in the Red-cockaded Woodpecker (Picoides borealis)
One unresolved issue in the study of cooperative breeding is why individuals that delay their own reproduction assist others in raising young. Red-cockaded woodpecker helpers may again future indirect fitness benefits by increasing survival of breeders, who produce offspring related to the helper i...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/29413 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-103199-194729/ |