Infanticide among animals is a widespread phenomenon with no unitary explanation.
Although the detrimental outcome for the infant is fairly constant, individuals responsible for …

I analyse and summarize the empirical evidence in mammals supporting alternative benefits
that individuals may accrue when committing nonparental infanticide. Nonparental …

Synthesizing studies of parental care in a wide variety of animals, this book is the first
attempt to provide general answers to the following important questions: Why does the …

What does it mean to be female? Sarah Blaffer Hrdy--a sociobiologist and a feminist--
believes that evolutionary biology can provide some surprising answers. Surprising to those …

The single most important difference between the sexes is the difference in their investment
in offspring. The general rule is this: females do all of the investing; males do none of …

In the past twenty years there have been many new developments in the study of animal
behaviour: for example, more sophisticated methods of neurophysiology; more precise …

In The Black-Tailed Prairie Dog, John L. Hoogland draws on sixteen years of research at
Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota, in the United States to provide this account of …

Recent field studies of a variety of mammalian species reveal a surprisingly high frequency
of infanticide-the killing of unweaned or otherwise maternally dependent offspring. Similarly …

At first sight just a small brown bird, the dunnock's unobtrusive appearance belies its
extraordinary behaviour and mating patterns. In this book Nick Davies gives a full account of …

Female lions with cubs show various direct responses to immigrating males, including
defense of their cubs or avoidance of the new males. Despite these responses, male …