I am not looking forward to any cooperating cicadas this year! Nor even any noncooperating cicadas. Dread the whole concept with two new horses, in fact.
Ah, yes, I had forgotten that example. I should also say my read of the subsequent literature was that there is not broad agreement that example held up. This piece in Behavioral Ecology is open access: https://academic.oup.com/beheco/article/20/2/296/219942. Bentley et al (2009) write, “Although paradoxes remain theoretically possible, there is a dearth of empirical demonstration: candidate examples are rare. Apparent paradoxes in the social spider Oecobius civitas (Burgess 1976) have not received sufficiently detailed attention (Mesterton-Gibbons and Adams 1998); reported paradoxes in the butterfly Heliconius sara (Hernández and Benson 1998) turned out to be due to misinterpretation or incorrect terminological usage…” So still seems possible, for sure. Thanks for the reminder! Something to keep an eye on.
I am not looking forward to any cooperating cicadas this year! Nor even any noncooperating cicadas. Dread the whole concept with two new horses, in fact.
Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene gives an example of a Mexican social spider that uses the anti-bourgeois strategy
Ah, yes, I had forgotten that example. I should also say my read of the subsequent literature was that there is not broad agreement that example held up. This piece in Behavioral Ecology is open access: https://academic.oup.com/beheco/article/20/2/296/219942. Bentley et al (2009) write, “Although paradoxes remain theoretically possible, there is a dearth of empirical demonstration: candidate examples are rare. Apparent paradoxes in the social spider Oecobius civitas (Burgess 1976) have not received sufficiently detailed attention (Mesterton-Gibbons and Adams 1998); reported paradoxes in the butterfly Heliconius sara (Hernández and Benson 1998) turned out to be due to misinterpretation or incorrect terminological usage…” So still seems possible, for sure. Thanks for the reminder! Something to keep an eye on.