Bell miner provisioning calls are more similar among relatives and are used by helpers at the nest to bias their effort towards kin

Cryptic Kin Selection: Kin Structure in Vertebrate Populations and Opportunities for Kin-Directed Cooperation

(2010) Ben J. Hatchwell   ETHOLOGY

Kinship affects investment by helpers in a cooperatively breeding bird

(2010) K.-B. Nam et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Do helpers really help? Provisioning biomass and prey type effects on nestling growth in the cooperative bell miner

(2009) Luc te Marvelde et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Brood sex ratio does not affect helper effort in a cooperative bird, despite extreme sex-biased dispersal

(2009) Paul G. McDonald et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Nestling begging increases predation risk, regardless of spectral characteristics or avian mobbing

(2009) P. G. McDonald et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

GREENBEARDS

(2009) Andy Gardner et al.   EVOLUTION

Individual distinctiveness in the mobbing call of a cooperative bird, the noisy minerManorina melanocephala

(2009) Robert A. W. Kennedy et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Routes to indirect fitness in cooperatively breeding vertebrates: kin discrimination and limited dispersal

(2009) C. K. CORNWALLIS et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Helping effort increases with relatedness in bell miners, but 'unrelated' helpers of both sexes still provide substantial care

(2009) J. Wright et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A simple method for distinguishing within- versus between-subject effects using mixed models

(2008) Martijn van de Pol et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

PROVISIONING VOCALIZATIONS IN COOPERATIVE BELL MINERS (MANORINA MELANOPHRYS): MORE THAN A SIMPLE STIMULUS FOR NESTLING BEGGING?

(2008) PAUL G. MCDONALD et al.   AUK

Helping as a signal: does removal of potential audiences alter helper behavior in the bell miner?

(2008) Paul G. McDonald et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Helping as a signal and the effect of a potential audience during provisioning visits in a cooperative bird

(2007) Paul G. McDonald et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR