Management of within-group conflict is a key feature of human lives and those of many social animals, with contestants known to adopt various strategies in the immediate aftermath to minimize costs.

Animal offspring may survive better when their groups are in greater conflict with rival factions, new research has shown. Animal offspring may survive better when their groups are in greater conflict ...

A research essay titled "Experimental evidence for delayed contingent cooperation among wild dwarf mongooses" by Drs. Julie Kern and Andrew Redford of the School of Biological Sciences at the UK's ...

Mongooses munch on snacks inside cardboard box play area at Saint Louis Zoo Dwarf mongoose pups Cyclone, Doppler, Nimbus and Radar enjoy a snack at the Saint Louis Zoo. The four pups dig in while ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The dwarf mongooses at Smithsonian's National Zoo are very curious and very smart, but do they socialize with one another? One of their caretakers ...

In dwarf mongooses, close relatives of meerkats, a single monogamous breeding pair is supported in raising their offspring by non-reproducing helpers. This image relates to a paper that appeared in ...

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(Phys.org)—A small team of researchers with members from the U.K. and Germany has found an example of a mammal that practices frequent incest. In their paper published in the journal Biology Letters, ...