The importance of being helpful -- Cooperative cichlids boost their own reproductive success

Friday, May 15, 2009 - 09:36 in Biology & Nature

Subordinate individuals living within a group of vertebrates sometimes assist a more dominant pair by helping to raise the dominant pair's offspring and this has been shown to occur among subordinate female cichlids.

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