The function of kin discrimination
作者:
Kenneth B. Armitage,
期刊:
Ethology Ecology & Evolution
(Taylor Available online 1989)
卷期:
Volume 1,
issue 1
页码: 111-121
ISSN:0394-9370
年代: 1989
DOI:10.1080/08927014.1989.9525535
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
关键词: yellow-bellied marmots;direct fitness;space-sharing;amicable behavior;agonistic behavior;relatedness
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
Kin discrimination should be a tactic in the fitness strategy of individuals. Two postulates derived from inclusive fitness theory that fitness benefits toward kin are correlated with degree of relatedness and that social behavior of members of a kin group is always cooperative are refuted by analyses of the social dynamics of yellowbellied marmots. Cooperative behavior occurs predominantly between mother/ daughter and sister/sister pairs, but such pairs also compete. More distant kin are treated similarly to unrelated animals, social behavior is primarily agonistic. Patterns of space-use, matrilineal formation and organization, social dynamics, and reproductive suppression of close kin suggest that marmots attempt to maximize direct fitness.
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