Behaviour: begging is a joint effort in banded mongooses.
Lack of competition for food items in banded mongoose litters allows pups to benefit from more demanding siblings, suggesting that in this species begging may not be entirely selfish.
Griffin
Ashleigh S
AS
Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, United Kingdom. a.griffin@ed.ac.uk
D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005260:Female; D008988:Herpestidae; D008297:Male; D012801:Sibling Relations