Climate warming is increasingly exposing wildlife to sublethal high temperatures, which may
lead to chronic impacts and reduced fitness. Telomere length (TL) may link heat exposure to …

Cooperative groups are ubiquitous in animals, as are the challenges of allocating labor to
accomplish cooperative tasks, including territory defense, hunting, and brood care …

It has been proposed that naked mole‐rat (Heterocephalus glaber) societies resemble those
of eusocial insects by showing a division of labour among non‐breeding individuals. Earlier …

In cooperative breeders, individuals forego independent reproduction and help others raise
offspring. Helping is proposed to be driven by indirect benefits from raising relatives, and/or …

Recent evidence suggests that female ornaments can commonly act as signals. However,
how signaling functions might be affected by the tendency for reduced ornament elaboration …

In cooperative breeding systems, inclusive fitness theory predicts that nonbreeding helpers
more closely related to the breeders should be more willing to provide costly alloparental …

Highlights•Contributions to different tasks are often positively correlated in helpers.•The
correlations were partially positive in the naked mole-rat.•Age-or size-based polyethisms …

In cooperatively breeding species, subordinates forgo reproduction to assist breeders in
raising offspring. When cooperative breeding is facultative, breeders from the same …

Cost–benefit analysis is widely used to elucidate the association between foraging group
size and resource size. Despite advances in the development of theoretical frameworks …

Organisms continuously modify their environment, often impacting the fitness of future
conspecifics due to ecological inheritance. When this inheritance is biased toward kin …