Publication: Male services during between-group conflict: the ‘hired gun’ hypothesis revisited
Male services during between-group conflict: the ‘hired gun’ hypothesis revisited
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Bshary, R., Richter, X.-Y. L., & van Schaik, C. (2022). Male services during between-group conflict: the ‘hired gun’ hypothesis revisited. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 377(1851), 20210150. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0150
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In many group-living mammals, philopatric females form the stable core of the group and defend food or shelter against other groups of females. Where males are larger, their participation could give their female group the edge. How can females secure the contribution of males that are neither the father of current infants, nor the dominant male expecting to sire the next generation of infants? It has been proposed that females recruit these males as ‘hired guns’, receiving social support and copulations in exchange for fighting, again
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- Bshary, Redouan
- Richter, Xiang-Yi Li
- van Schaik, Carel
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Bshary, R., Richter, X.-Y. L., & van Schaik, C. (2022). Male services during between-group conflict: the ‘hired gun’ hypothesis revisited. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 377(1851), 20210150. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0150
