title: Behaviour: begging is a joint effort in banded mongooses.
abstract: 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.
authors: Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, United Kingdom. a.griffin@ed.ac.uk
authors: Ashleigh S
authors: AS
authors: Griffin
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005260:Female; D008988:Herpestidae; D008297:Male; D012801:Sibling Relations