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Begging with a Purpose? Testing Behavioural Hallmarks of First-Order Intentionality in Free-ranging Hanuman Langurs
Dishari Dasgupta, Shriparna Chattopadhyay, Sruti Banerjee +4
Intentional communication has been studied extensively in primates, yet evidence from free-ranging non-ape species remains limited. Human-directed food-solicitation gestures in Han…
Do dogs live in joint families? Understanding allo-parental care in free-ranging dogs
Manabi Paul, Anindita Bhadra
Cooperative breeding is an excellent example of altruistic cooperation in social groups. Domestic dogs have evolved from cooperatively hunting and breeding ancestors, but have adap…
Clever mothers balance time and effort in parental care: a study on free-ranging dogs
Manabi Paul, Shubhra Sau, Anjan K. Nandi +1
Mammalian offspring require parental care, at least in the form of suckling during their early development. While mothers need to invest considerable time and energy in ensuring th…
Selfish Pups: Weaning Conflict and Milk Theft in Free-Ranging Dogs
Manabi Paul, Anindita Bhadra
Parent-offspring conflict theory predicts the emergence of weaning conflict between a mother and her offspring arising from skewed relatedness benefits. Empirical observations of w…
The Meat of the Matter: A thumb rule for scavenging dogs?
Anandarup Bhadra, Debottam Bhattacharjee, Manabi Paul +1
Animals that scavenge in and around human localities need to utilize a broad range of resources. Preference for any one kind of food, under such circumstances, might be inefficient…
Parent-offspring Conflict in feral dogs: A Bioassay
Sreejani Sen Majumder, Manabi Paul, Anindita Bhadra
The parent-offspring conflict theory is an interesting premise for understanding the dynamics of parental care. However, this theory is not easy to test empirically, as exact measu…