SELFISH PUPS: WEANING CONFLICT AND MILK THEFT IN FREE-RANGING DOGS.

Parent-offspring conflict theory predicts the emergence of weaning conflict between a mother and her offspring arising from skewed relatedness benefits.Empirical observations of weaning conflict have not been carried out in canids.In a field-based study on free-ranging dogs we observed that nursing/suckling bout durations decrease, proportion of mo

Compositional approaches are beginning to permeate Harry Potter high throughput biomedical sciences in the areas of microbiome, genomics, transcriptomics and proteomics.Yet non-compositional approaches are still commonly observed.Non-compositional approaches are particularly problematic in network analysis based on correlation, ordination and explo