Mongoose Mobs Help Their Friends
Strong bonds, or ‘friendships’, occur between group members in many species, not just humans. Lead author Dr Julie Kern from the University’s School of Biological Sciences, said: “It’s well-known that strong bonds can provide long-term health and fitness benefits, but we’re only just beginning to understand that there are short-term benefits too.”
For the study, part-funded by a crowd-funding campaign and published in the journal Biology Letters, researchers used grooming and foraging data to establish which mongooses were ‘friends’. They then conducted field-based experimental trials to demonstrate that individuals were more likely to respond to the mobbing calls of these groupmates with whom they are more strongly bonded.
Co-author Professor Andy Radford added: “Our results are exciting because they show that strong bonds within social groups may provide key anti-predator benefits. Groupmates may directly improve the survival chances of their ‘friends’ when they respond to mobbing calls, but may also increase the likelihood of being helped themselves in the future.”
Professor Radford concluded: “By looking at responses to mobbing calls, which directly indicate a predator’s presence, we can investigate a direct link between friendship and survival; making a mistake during a mobbing event could result in death. It seems that for dwarf mongooses at least, a friend in need is a friend indeed.”
Source: http://www.ineffableisland.com/2016/11/mongoose-mobs-help-their-friends.html
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