Talk:alloparenting
Latest comment: 11 years ago by Chuck Entz in topic Alloparental care
This article was transwikied from w:Alloparenting. —Cryptic (talk) 15:59, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
The history of the article there was:
- 09:08, 9 June 2005 134.184.122.208
Alloparental care edit
Related term - alloparental care:
- "Cooperatively breeding vertebrate systems are characterized by individual ‘helpers’ that take care of young ones within the social group that are not their own offspring — a behaviour termed ‘alloparental care’."[1]
Source: Lewis, S. E. & Pusey, A. E. 1997 "Factors influencing the occurrence of communal care in plural breeding mammals". In Cooperative breeding in mammals (eds N. G. Solomon & J. A. French), pp. 335– 363. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press
~Eric F 74.60.29.141 05:21, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
- I've added an entry for alloparental. In general, we don't have entries for phrases where the meaning of the phrase can be found by looking up the individual parts. It's a judgment call, but that seems to be the case here.Chuck Entz (talk) 15:04, 29 October 2012 (UTC)