[ **up: [[Zoology]]** ] --- # Cooperative breeders [[2025-0323. ‘Cooperative breeders require not only both parents, but also additional helpers or alloparents which suppress their own reproduction to assist in the care of infants.’|‘Cooperative breeders require not only both parents, but also additional helpers or alloparents which suppress their own reproduction to assist in the care of infants.’]][^1] --- ## Examples ### Humans [[2025-0323. 'Hrdy (1999) has argued that humans are also cooperative breeders, since a single female is typically unable to rear an infant to adulthood without substantial support from others either in caregiving or financial support.'|'Hrdy (1999) has argued that humans are also cooperative breeders, since a single female is typically unable to rear an infant to adulthood without substantial support from others either in caregiving or financial support.']][^2] [^1]: Charles T. Snowden, et al., ‘[[nowdon, et al. ‘Social odours, sexual arousal and pairbonding in primates’, 2006.|Social odours, sexual arousal and pairbonding in primates]]’, *Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B*, vol. 361 (November 2006), p. 2079. [^2]: Charles T. Snowden, et al., ‘[[nowdon, et al. ‘Social odours, sexual arousal and pairbonding in primates’, 2006.|Social odours, sexual arousal and pairbonding in primates]]’, *Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B*, vol. 361 (November 2006), p. 2085.