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Helping is costly to young birds in cooperatively breeding white-winged choughs

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Cooperative Enhancement Of Reproductive Success in Tropical Wren Societies

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Genetic evidence for monogamy in the cooperatively breeding red-cockaded woodpecker

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Extreme bias in sex allocation inEclectusparrots

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Field Studies of Parental Care in Birds

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Variably male-biased sex ratio in a marine bird with females larger than males

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Fighting to stay: the role of sibling rivalry for delayed dispersal

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The relationship between ecology and the incidence of cooperative breeding in Australian birds

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A test of alternate hypotheses for helping behavior in white-fronted bee-eaters of Kenya

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Relatedness and Inbreeding Avoidance: Counterploys in the Communally Nesting Acorn Woodpecker

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Confirmation of cooperative polyandry in the Galapagos hawk (Buteo galapagoensis)

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When mothers prefer daughters over sons

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Delayed Dispersal and Reproduction as a Life-History Tactic in Cooperative Breeders: Fitness Calculations from Red-Cockaded Woodpeckers

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The Ostrich Communal Nesting System

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Why Seychelles Warblers fail to recolonize nearby islands: unwilling or unable to fly there?

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Prolonged offspring dependence and cooperative breeding in birds

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Ancient ecological diversification explains life-history variation among living birds

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Subordinate superb fairy-wrens (Malurus cyaneus) parasitize the reproductive success of attractive dominant males

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Offspring sex ratio studies of mammals: Does publication depend upon the quality of the research or the direction of the results?

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Host–parasite relatedness shown by protein fingerprinting in a brood parasitic bird

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Testosterone and Polygyny in Birds

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Comparative patterns of philopatry and dispersal in two common mole‐rat populations: implications for the evolution of mole‐rat sociality

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Acorn Harvesting by Florida Scrub Jays

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Female fifteen-spined sticklebacks prefer better fathers

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Pied Kingfishers: ecological causes and reproductive consequences of cooperative breeding

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Cuckoldry and the stability of biparental care

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Cooperative enhancement of reproductive success in white-winged choughs

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Reproductive Skew in Multimember Groups

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1996 • 106 citations

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Co-operative Breeding—a Gondwanan Perspective

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Inbreeding: Benefits may outweigh costs

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1989 • 101 citations

Ecological and life-history correlates of cooperative breeding in South African birds

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Natal and Breeding Dispersal in a Co-Operative, Extra-Group-Mating Bird

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1997 • 101 citations

Cloacal Protuberance and Copulatory Behavior of the Alpine Accentor (Prunella collaris)

1990 • 101 citations

Cloacal protuberances and extreme sperm production in Australian fairy-wrens

1996 • 100 citations

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1975 • 100 citations

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1991 • 99 citations

Cooperative Breeding, Reproductive Suppression, and Body Mass in Canids

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2000 • 99 citations

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Helping-at-the-nest in Arabian babblers: signalling social status or sensible investment in chicks?

1997 • 98 citations

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2000 • 97 citations

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1976 • 97 citations

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2000 • 97 citations

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Acorn Woodpeckers: group-living and food storage under contrasting ecological conditions

1990 • 96 citations

Hormonal correlates of dominance in meerkats (Suricata suricatta)

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Increased opportunities for cuckoldry may be why dominant male fairy-wrens tolerate helpers

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1988 • 96 citations

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2003 • 96 citations

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Helping by juvenile pine voles (Microtus pinetorum), growth and survival of younger siblings, and the evolution of pine vole sociality

1992 • 95 citations

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1989 • 95 citations

Parent–offspring conflict and the recruitment of helpers among bee-eaters

1992 • 95 citations

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1991 • 95 citations

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1994 • 94 citations

Sexing birds using random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) markers

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Flocking and Annual Cycle of the Piñon Jay, Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus

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Taxon Sampling and the Phylogenetic Position of Passeriformes: Evidence from 916 Avian Cytochrome b Sequences

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1991 • 72 citations

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1991 • 72 citations

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1984 • 68 citations

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2000 • 64 citations

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1987 • 64 citations

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2001 • 61 citations

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1990 • 60 citations

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2000 • 60 citations

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1996 • 60 citations

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1993 • 60 citations

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1990 • 59 citations

The Psychobiological Basis of Cooperative Breeding in Rodents

1996 • 59 citations

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1993 • 59 citations

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1993 • 59 citations

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1993 • 59 citations

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1998 • 59 citations

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1996 • 59 citations

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2000 • 59 citations

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2002 • 59 citations

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2000 • 58 citations

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1994 • 58 citations

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1997 • 58 citations

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2002 • 58 citations

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2001 • 58 citations

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1992 • 58 citations

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1989 • 58 citations

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1990 • 58 citations

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2002 • 57 citations

Molecular sexing of birds

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1987 • 56 citations

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Skewed Sex Ratios in Cooper's Hawk Offspring

1996 • 56 citations

Groove-billed Anis: joint-nesting in a tropical cuckoo

1990 • 55 citations

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1985 • 55 citations

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1998 • 55 citations

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1985 • 55 citations

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1994 • 55 citations

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1996 • 54 citations

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2002 • 53 citations

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1990 • 53 citations

Indices of reproductive skew depend on average reproductive success

1998 • 53 citations

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1979 • 52 citations

Helping Behaviour in Cooperatively-Breeding Green Woodhoopoes: Selected or Unselected Trait?

1993 • 52 citations

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The social organization and behaviour of the Hoatzin Opisthocomus hoazin in central Venezuela

1988 • 52 citations

Evolutionary stasis, constraint and other terminology describing evolutionary patterns

2001 • 51 citations

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1983 • 51 citations

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1990 • 51 citations

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1990 • 51 citations

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1991 • 51 citations

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1998 • 50 citations

Multiple mating and cooperative breeding in polygynandrous alpine accentors. II. Male mating tactics

1998 • 50 citations

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1996 • 50 citations

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1999 • 50 citations

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2001 • 50 citations

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1999 • 49 citations

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1996 • 49 citations

Does juvenile helping enhance breeder reproductive success?

1989 • 49 citations

Individual Contributions to Cooperative Nest Care in the Acorn Woodpecker

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1991 • 48 citations

Food Habits and Social Organization of Acorn Woodpeckers in Colombia

1988 • 48 citations

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1991 • 47 citations

Nesting phenology of magpie geese (Anseranas semipalmata) in monsoonal northern Australia: responses to antecedent rainfall

2000 • 47 citations

Multiple mating by females selects for males that stay: another hypothesis for social monogamy in passerine birds

1996 • 47 citations

Male-biased sex ratios in broods of the cooperatively breeding bell miner Manorina melanophrys

2002 • 47 citations

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1989 • 46 citations

Molecular Genetic (RAPD) Analysis of Breeding Magpie Geese

1996 • 46 citations

Ability of Two Species of Oak Woodland Birds to Subsist on Acorns

1988 • 46 citations

Energetic demands during brood rearing in the Wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe

1990 • 46 citations

Cavity Roosting, Philopatry, and Cooperative Breeding in the Green Woodhoopoe May Reflect a Physiological Trait

1988 • 46 citations

Helpers‐at‐the‐nest in Carrion Crows Corvus corone corone

1990 • 46 citations

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1998 • 45 citations

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1999 • 45 citations

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1995 • 45 citations

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2002 • 45 citations

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1993 • 45 citations

The Breeding Biology of the White-winged Fairy-wren Malurus leucopterus leuconotus in a Western Australian Coastal Heathland

1995 • 45 citations

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1998 • 45 citations

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1982 • 45 citations

Cooperatively Breeding Groups of Carrion Crow(Corvus Corone Corone) in Northern Spain

2002 • 45 citations

Florida Scrub-Jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens)

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1999 • 44 citations

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2000 • 43 citations

Delayed dispersal and cooperative breeding in the seychelles warbler

1992 • 43 citations

Sexual Dimorphism and Sex Ratios in Wild Birds

1976 • 43 citations

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Extra-pair paternity as the result of reproductive transactions between paired mates

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1982 • 43 citations

Effects of Helpers on Nestling Care and Breeder Survival in Pygmy Nuthatches

1989 • 43 citations

The thermal and energetic significance of clustering in the speckled mousebird, Colius striatus

1992 • 43 citations

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1988 • 43 citations

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Short sketches from the long history of cooperative breeding in Australian birds

2002 • 42 citations

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1986 • 42 citations

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1980 • 41 citations

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1994 • 41 citations

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2001 • 41 citations

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1995 • 41 citations

Courtship, Copulation, Nesting Behavior and Brood Parasitism in the Venezuelan Stripe-Backed Wren

1994 • 41 citations

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2002 • 41 citations

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1992 • 40 citations

Female—female interactions and social stress in praine voles

1991 • 40 citations

5. Sexual Asymmetries in the Life History of the Florida Scrub Jay

1987 • 40 citations

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2000 • 40 citations

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1985 • 40 citations

Has sexual selection been overlooked in the study of avian helping behaviour?

2001 • 40 citations

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1991 • 40 citations

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2002 • 39 citations

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1996 • 39 citations

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2001 • 39 citations

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1997 • 38 citations

Functional Incubation in Male Barn Swallows

1983 • 38 citations

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1993 • 38 citations

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1996 • 38 citations

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1992 • 38 citations

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1990 • 37 citations

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1991 • 37 citations

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