Do gray wolves ( Canis lupus ) support pack mates during aggressive inter-pack interactions?

• Main Authors: Cassidy, Kira A., McIntyre, Richard T.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2016
• Subjects: Altruism; Aggression; Cooperation; Canis lupus; Empathy; Fighting; Kin selection; Reciprocal altruism; Support; Cassidy; gray wolf
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/natlpark/146; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/natlpark/article/1145/viewcontent/Cassidy_AC_2016_Do_gray_wolves.pdf

For group-living mammals, social coordination increases success in everything from hunting and foraging (Crofoot and Wrangham in Mind the Gap, Springer, Berlin, 2010; Bailey et al. in Behav Ecol Sociobiol 67:1–17, 2013) to agonism (Mosser and Packer in Anim Behav 78:359–370, 2009; Wilson et al. in A...