Avian parents and social insect colonies are victimized by interspecific brood parasites—
cheats that procure costly care for their dependent offspring by leaving them in another …

In this synthesis we apply coevolutionary models to the interactions between socially
parasitic ants and their hosts. Obligate social parasite systems are ideal models for …

Throughout their lives animals must complete many tasks, including finding food, avoiding
predators, attracting mates, and navigating through a complex and dynamic environment …

We review the existence of teams in animal societies. Teams have previously been
dismissed in all but a tiny minority of insect societies.“Team” is a term not generally used in …

Studying the behavioral and life history transitions from a cooperative, eusocial life history to
exploitative social parasitism allows for deciphering the conditions under which changes in …

Parasitic exploitation occurs within and between a wide variety of taxa in a plethora of
diverse contexts. Theoretical and empirical analyses indicate that parasitic exploitation can …

Severe brood care costs have favoured the evolution of cheaters that exploit the parental
services of conspecifics or even heterospecifics in both birds and social insects. In Polistes …

The evolution of an obligate parasitic lifestyle often leads to the reduction of morphological
and physiological traits, which may be accompanied by loss of genes and functions. Slave …

In the current revisionary work, the Temnothorax nylanderi species-group of myrmicine ants
is characterized. Eighteen species belonging to this group in the Ponto-Mediterranean …

In nature, trickery and deception are widespread. Animals and plants mimic other objects or
species in the environment for protection, trick other species into rearing their young, lure …