Cooperatively breeding banded mongooses do not avoid inbreeding through familiarity-based kin recognition

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• who: Monil Khera from the (UNIVERSITY) have published the research: Cooperatively breeding banded mongooses do not avoid inbreeding through familiarity-based kin recognition, in the Journal: (JOURNAL)
• what: The authors show that this rule does work in Here the offspring of several mothers are raised in large communal litters by their social group and parents seem unable to identify or direct care towards their own pups. This suggests that within-group inbreeding avoidance mechanisms do exist in this species, but the authors do not yet know what these mechanisms are, and identifying them is the . . .
  

   

  

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