Effects of group dynamics on selection, development and demography in cooperative vertebrates

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Publications

Two decades of tuberculosis surveillance reveal disease spread, high levels of exposure and mortality and marked variation in disease progression in wild meerkats

Author(s): Müller-Klein, N., Risely, A., Schmid, D. W., Manser, M., Clutton-Brock, T. and Sommer, S.
Published in: Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, Issue 69, 2022, Page(s) 3274-3284, ISSN 1865-1674
Publisher: Blackwell-Wiss.-Verl
DOI: 10.1111/tbed.14679

Patterns and drivers of female extra-pair mating in wild Kalahari meerkats

Author(s): Annika Herdtle, Chris Duncan, Marta B Manser, Tim Clutton-Brock
Published in: Behavioral Ecology, Issue 36, 2025, ISSN 1045-2249
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/araf016

Effect of group size and experience on the ontogeny of sentinel calling behaviour in meerkats

Author(s): Ramona Rauber, Marta B. Manser
Published in: Animal Behaviour, Issue 171, 2021, Page(s) 129-138, ISSN 0003-3472
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.11.014

Environmental effects rather than relatedness determine gut microbiome similarity in a social mammal

Author(s): Bensch, H.M., Lundin, D., Tolf, C., Waldenström, J. and Zöttl, M.
Published in: Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2023, ISSN 1420-9101
Publisher: Wiley Blackwell
DOI: 10.1111/jeb.14208

Learning to detect an animal sound from five examples

Author(s): Ines Nolasco, Shubhr Singh, Veronica Morfi, Vincent Lostanlen, Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin, Ester Vidaña-Vila, Lisa Gill, Hanna Pamuła, Helen Whitehead, Ivan Kiskin, Frants H. Jensen, Joe Morford, Michael G. Emmerson, Elisabetta Versace, Emily Grout, Haohe Liu, Burooj Ghani, Dan Stowell
Published in: Ecological Informatics, Issue 77, 2024, Page(s) 102258, ISSN 1574-9541
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2023.102258

Potential use of a magnetic compass during long-distance dispersal in a subterranean rodent

Author(s): Kyle T Finn
Published in: Journal of Mammalogy, Issue 102/1, 2021, Page(s) 250-257, ISSN 0022-2372
Publisher: American Society of Mammalogists
DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyaa163

Group size and social status affect scent marking in dispersing female meerkats

Author(s): Morales-Gonzalez, A., Ruiz-Villar, H., Ozgul, A., Maag, N. and Cozzi, G.
Published in: Behavioral Ecology, 2019, Page(s) 1602-1610, ISSN 1045-2249
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arz124

Linking climate variability to demography in cooperatively breeding meerkats

Author(s): Jack Thorley, Chris Duncan, Marta B. Manser, Tim Clutton‐Brock
Published in: Ecological Monographs, Issue 95, 2025, ISSN 0012-9615
Publisher: Ecological Society of America
DOI: 10.1002/ecm.70021

Kin recognition for incest avoidance in Damaraland mole-rats, <i>Fukomys damarensis</i>

Author(s): Amy E. Leedale, Philippe Vullioud, David Seager, Markus Zöttl, Gaétan Glauser, Tim Clutton-Brock
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 291, 2024, ISSN 0962-8452
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2024.1138

Testing the acoustic adaptation hypothesis with vocalizations from three mongoose species.

Author(s): Arasco, A.G., Manser, M., Watson, S.K., Kyabulima, S., Radford, A.N., Cant, M.A. and Garcia, M.
Published in: Animal Behaviour, 2022, ISSN 0003-3472
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2022.02.016

How to treat mixed behavior segments in supervised machine learning of behavioural modes from inertial measurement data

Author(s): Yehezkel S. Resheff, Hanna M. Bensch, Markus Zöttl, Roi Harel, Akiko Matsumoto-Oda, Margaret C. Crofoot, Sara Gomez, Luca Börger, Shay Rotics
Published in: Movement Ecology, Issue 12, 2024, ISSN 2051-3933
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1186/s40462-024-00485-7

Feeding through the ages: Revisiting the diet of meerkats

Author(s): Walter R. Jubber, Marta B. Manser, Andrea Fuller
Published in: Journal of Arid Environments, Issue 227, 2025, Page(s) 105331, ISSN 0140-1963
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2025.105331

Diurnal oscillations in gut bacterial load and composition eclipse seasonal and lifetime dynamics in wild meerkats.

Author(s): Risely, A., Wilhelm, K., Clutton-Brock, T., Manser, M.B. and Sommer, S.
Published in: Nature Communications, 2021, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-26298-5

Microbial transmission in animal social networks and the social microbiome

Author(s): Amar Sarkar, Siobhán Harty, Katerina V.-A. Johnson, Andrew H. Moeller, Elizabeth A. Archie, Laura D. Schell, Rachel N. Carmody, Timothy H. Clutton-Brock, Robin I. M. Dunbar, Philip W. J. Burnet
Published in: Nature Ecology & Evolution, Issue 4/8, 2020, Page(s) 1020-1035, ISSN 2397-334X
Publisher: Springer Nature Limited
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-020-1220-8

A female‐biased gene expression signature of dominance in cooperatively breeding meerkats

Author(s): C. Ryan Campbell, Marta Manser, Mari Shiratori, Kelly Williams, Luis Barreiro, Tim Clutton‐Brock, Jenny Tung
Published in: Molecular Ecology, Issue 33, 2024, ISSN 0962-1083
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/mec.17467

Characterizing tuberculosis progression in wild meerkats (Suricata suricatta) from fecal samples and clinical signs

Author(s): Josephine Donadio; Alice Risely; Nadine Müller-Klein; Kerstin Wilhelm; Tim Clutton-Brock; Marta B. Manser; Simone Sommer
Published in: Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 2022, ISSN 0090-3558
Publisher: Wildlife Disease Association
DOI: 10.7589/jwd-d-21-00063

Damaraland mole-rats do not rely on helpers for reproduction or survival

Author(s): Jack Thorley Hanna M Bensch Kyle Finn Tim Clutton-Brock Markus Zöttl
Published in: Evolution Letters, 2023, Page(s) 203-215, ISSN 2056-3744
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1093/evlett/qrad023

Twenty years of tuberculosis-driven selection shaped the evolution of the meerkat major histocompatibility complex

Author(s): Nadine Müller-Klein, Alice Risely, Kerstin Wilhelm, Vanessa Riegel, Marta Manser, Tim Clutton-Brock, Luke Silver, Pablo S. C. Santos, Dominik W. Melville, Simone Sommer
Published in: Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2025, ISSN 2397-334X
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02837-x

Spatial position relative to group members affects weight gain in meerkats, Suricata suricatta

Author(s): Rasekuwane Mosia, Vlad Demartsev, Aliza le Roux, Marta B. Manser, Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin, Lily Johnson-Ulrich
Published in: Animal Behaviour, Issue 225, 2025, Page(s) 123217, ISSN 0003-3472
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123217

Odour-based social recognition in Damaraland mole-rats Fukomys damarensis.

Author(s): Leedale, A., Thorley, J. and Clutton-Brock, T.
Published in: Animal Behaviour, 2021, ISSN 0003-3472
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.06.019

Decline and fall: The causes of group failure in cooperatively breeding meerkats

Author(s): Chris Duncan, Marta B. Manser, Tim Clutton‐Brock
Published in: Ecology and Evolution, 2021, ISSN 2045-7758
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.7655

Dominance loss and tenure maintenance in Kalahari meerkats

Author(s): Duncan, C Thorley, J Manser, M B Clutton-Brock, T
Published in: Behavioral Ecology, 2023, ISSN 1045-2249
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arad066

Gut microbiota individuality is contingent on temporal scale and age in wild meerkats

Author(s): Risely, A., Schmid, D. W., Müller-Klein, N., Wilhelm, K., Clutton-Brock, T. H., Manser, M. B. and Sommer, S.
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2022, ISSN 0370-1662
Publisher: The Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.0609

Supporting materials: text, tables and figures from Group size increases inequality in cooperative behaviour

Author(s): Rotics, Shay; Clutton-Brock, Tim
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2021, ISSN 0962-8452
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.13709923

Behavioural compass: animal behaviour recognition using magnetometers

Author(s): Pritish Chakravarty, Maiki Maalberg, Gabriele Cozzi, Arpat Ozgul, Kamiar Aminian
Published in: Movement Ecology, Issue 7/1, 2019, ISSN 2051-3933
Publisher: BMC Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1186/s40462-019-0172-6

Meerkat helpers buffer the detrimental effects of adverse environmental conditions on fecundity, growth and survival

Author(s): Frank Groenewoud, Tim Clutton‐Brock
Published in: Journal of Animal Ecology, 2020, ISSN 0021-8790
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13396

Mapping vocal interactions in space and time differentiates signal broadcast versus signal exchange in meerkat groups

Author(s): Vlad Demartsev, Baptiste Averly, Lily Johnson-Ulrich, Vivek H. Sridhar, Leonardos Leonardos, Alexander Q. Vining, Mara Thomas, Marta B. Manser, Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 379, 2024, ISSN 0962-8436
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2023.0188

Within‐group sex ratios predict growth of social mole‐rats

Author(s): H. M. Bensch, J. Thorley, K. T. Finn, M. Zöttl
Published in: Journal of Zoology, Issue 324, 2024, Page(s) 63-70, ISSN 0952-8369
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1111/jzo.13196

Contributions of genetic and nongenetic sources to variation in cooperative behavior in a cooperative mammal

Author(s): Thomas M. Houslay, Johanna F. Nielsen, Tim H. Clutton‐Brock
Published in: Evolution, 2021, ISSN 0014-3820
Publisher: Society for the Study of Evolution
DOI: 10.1111/evo.14383

Correcting a bias in the computation of behavioural time budgets that are based on supervised learning

Author(s): Yehezkel S. Resheff; Hanna M. Bensch; Markus Zöttl; Shay Rotics
Published in: Methods in Ecology and Evoution, 2022, ISSN 2041-210X
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.17863/cam.83869

A novel biomechanical approach for animal behaviour recognition using accelerometers

Author(s): Chakravarty, P., Cozzi, G., Ozgul, A., & Aminian, K.
Published in: Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2019, Page(s) 802-814, ISSN 2041-210X
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210x.13172

Genetic variance in fitness indicates rapid contemporary adaptive evolution in wild animals.

Author(s): Bonnet, T., Morrissey, M. B., de Villemereuil, P. Alberts, S. C., Arcese, P., Bailey, L., Boutin, S., Brekke, P., Brent, L. J. N., Camenisch, G., Charmantier, A., Clutton-Brock, T. H., Cockburn, A., Coltman, D. W., Courtiol, A., Davidian, E., Evans, S. R., Ewen, J. G., Festa-Bianchet, M., de Franceschi, C., Gustafsson, L., Höner, O. P., Houslay, T. M., Keller, L. F., Manser, M., McAdam, A. G.,
Published in: Science, Issue 376, 2022, Page(s) 1012-1016, ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.abk0853

Climate change drives loss of bacterial gut mutualists at the expense of host survival in wild meerkats.

Author(s): Risely, A., Müller-Klein, N., Schmid, D. W., Wilhelm, K., Clutton-Brock, T. H., Manser, M. B. and Sommer, S.
Published in: Global Change Biology, Issue 29, 2023, Page(s) 5816-5828, ISSN 1354-1013
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16877

Subterranean life-style does not limit long distance dispersal in African mole-rats

Author(s): Finn, K.T., Thorley, J., Bensch, H.M. and Zöttl, M.
Published in: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022, ISSN 1540-9295
Publisher: Ecological Society of America
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2022.879014

Directional speakers as a tool for animal vocal communication studies

Author(s): Lily Johnson-Ulrich, Vlad Demartsev, Laurie Johnson, Emma Brown, Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin, Marta B. Manser
Published in: Royal Society Open Science, Issue 10, 2023, ISSN 2054-5703
Publisher: The Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.230489

Deferred benefits of dominance for natal males in a cooperative breeder.

Author(s): Spence-Jones, H C., Brehmn, A M., Cram, D., Gaynor, D., Manser, M M and Clutton-Brock, T H.
Published in: Journal of Zoology, Issue 09528369, 2021, Page(s) 236-245, ISSN 0952-8369
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1111/jzo.12918

Monotocy and the evolution of plural breeding in mammals

Author(s): Dieter Lukas, Tim Clutton-Brock
Published in: Behavioral Ecology, Issue 31/4, 2020, Page(s) 943-949, ISSN 1045-2249
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/araa039

Dispersal decreases survival but increases reproductive opportunities for subordinates in a cooperative breeder.

Author(s): Maag, N., Paniw, M., Cozzi, G., Manser, M., Clutton-Brock, T. and Ozgul, A.
Published in: American Naturalist, 2022, ISSN 0003-0147
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.1086/719029

Workload distribution in wild Damaraland mole-rat groups

Author(s): Shay Rotics, Hanna M. Bensch, Yehezkel S. Resheff, Tim Clutton-Brock, Markus Zöttl
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 380, 2025, ISSN 0962-8436
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2023.0276

R code for Demographic consequences of changing environmental periodicity

Author(s): Conquet, Eva; Ozgul, Arpat; Blumstein, Daniel T.; Armitage, Kenneth B.; Oli, Madan K.; Martin, Julien G. A.; Clutton-Brock, Tim H.; Paniw, Maria
Published in: Ecology, 2023, ISSN 0012-9658
Publisher: Ecological Society of America
DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3894

Higher temperature extremes exacerbate negative disease effects in a social mammal.

Author(s): Paniw, M., Duncan, C., Groenewoud, F., Drewe, J. A., Manser, M., Ozgul, A. and Clutton-Bock, T.
Published in: Nature Climate Change, 2022, ISSN 1758-678X
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41558-022-01284-x

The case for extended lifespan in cooperatively breeding mammals: a re-appraisal

Author(s): Thorley, J
Published in: PeerJ, 2020, Page(s) e9214, ISSN 2167-8359
Publisher: PeerJ
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.9214

Oxidative costs of cooperation in cooperatively breeding Damaraland mole-rats

Author(s): Rute Mendonça, Philippe Vullioud, Nathan Katlein, Armelle Vallat, Gaétan Glauser, Nigel C. Bennett, Fabrice Helfenstein
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 287/1934, 2020, Page(s) 20201023, ISSN 0962-8452
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2020.1023

Bacteroidetes to Firmicutes: captivity changes the gut microbiota composition and diversity in a social subterranean rodent.

Author(s): Bensch, H.M., Tolf, C., Waldenström, J., Lundin, D. and Zottl, M.
Published in: Animal Microbiome, 2023, Page(s) 5: 9, ISSN 2524-4671
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1186/s42523-023-00231-1

Life history responses of meerkats to seasonal changes in extreme environments

Author(s): Maria Paniw, Nino Maag, Gabriele Cozzi, Tim Clutton-Brock, Arpat Ozgul
Published in: Science, Issue 363/6427, 2019, Page(s) 631-635, ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.aau5905

Cost of dispersal in a social mammal: body mass loss and increased stress

Author(s): Nino Maag, Gabriele Cozzi, Andrew Bateman, Michael Heistermann, André Ganswindt, Marta Manser, Tim Clutton-Brock, Arpat Ozgul
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 286/1896, 2019, Page(s) 20190033, ISSN 0962-8452
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019.0033

The Evolution of Indiscriminate Altruism in a Cooperatively Breeding Mammal

Author(s): Chris Duncan, David Gaynor, Tim Clutton-Brock, Mark Dyble
Published in: The American Naturalist, Issue 193/6, 2019, Page(s) 841-851, ISSN 0003-0147
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.1086/703113

Effects of climate change on pup growth and survival in a cooperative mammal, the meerkat

Author(s): Tanja M. F. N. Van de Ven, Andrea Fuller, Tim H. Clutton‐Brock
Published in: Functional Ecology, Issue 34/1, 2019, Page(s) 194-202, ISSN 0269-8463
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.13468

The development of individual differences in cooperative behaviour: maternal glucocorticoid hormones alter helping behaviour of offspring in wild meerkats

Author(s): Ben Dantzer, Constance Dubuc, Ines Braga Goncalves, Dominic L. Cram, Nigel C. Bennett, Andre Ganswindt, Michael Heistermann, Chris Duncan, David Gaynor, Tim H. Clutton-Brock
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 374/1770, 2019, Page(s) 20180117, ISSN 0962-8436
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2018.0117

Male immigration triggers increased growth in subordinate female meerkats

Author(s): Constance Dubuc, Tim H. Clutton‐Brock
Published in: Ecology and Evolution, Issue 9/3, 2018, Page(s) 1127-1134, ISSN 2045-7758
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.4801

Long‐term movements and home‐range changes: Rapid territory shifts in meerkats

Author(s): Bart Kranstauber, Gabriella E. C. Gall, Tim Vink, Tim Clutton‐Brock, Marta B. Manser
Published in: Journal of Animal Ecology, 2019, ISSN 0021-8790
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13129

A unified-models analysis of the development of sexual size dimorphism in Damaraland mole-rats, Fukomys damarensis

Author(s): Jack Thorley, Tim H Clutton-Brock
Published in: Journal of Mammalogy, Issue 100/4, 2019, Page(s) 1374-1386, ISSN 0022-2372
Publisher: American Society of Mammalogists
DOI: 10.1093//jmammal/gyz082

Burrow usage patterns and decision-making in meerkat groups

Author(s): Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin, Tim Clutton-Brock, Marta B Manser
Published in: Behavioral Ecology, 2019, ISSN 1045-2249
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arz190

Sex‐independent senescence in a cooperatively breeding mammal

Author(s): Jack Thorley, Christopher Duncan, Stuart P Sharp, David Gaynor, Marta B Manser, Tim Clutton‐Brock
Published in: Journal of Animal Ecology, 2020, ISSN 0021-8790
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13173

Drought decreases cooperative sentinel behavior and affects vocal coordination in meerkats

Author(s): Ramona Rauber, Tim H Clutton-Brock, Marta B Manser
Published in: Behavioral Ecology, Issue 30/6, 2019, Page(s) 1558-1566, ISSN 1045-2249
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arz112

Intergroup aggression in meerkats

Author(s): Mark Dyble, Thomas M. Houslay, Marta B. Manser, Tim Clutton-Brock
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 286/1917, 2019, Page(s) 20191993, ISSN 0962-8452
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019.1993

Dispersal-induced social stress prolongs gestation in wild meerkats

Author(s): Nino Maag Gabriele Cozzi David Seager Marta Manser Anna Sickmüller Thomas B. Hildebrandt Tim Clutton-Brock Arpat Ozgul
Published in: Biology Letters, 2023, Page(s) 20230183, ISSN 1744-957X
Publisher: The Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2023.0183

Parity predicts allonursing in a cooperative breeder

Author(s): Morgane A A Brachet, Philippe Vullioud, Andre Ganswindt, Marta B Manser, Matthieu Keller, Tim H Clutton-Brock
Published in: Journal of Mammalogy, Issue 102/5, 2021, Page(s) 1365-1374, ISSN 0022-2372
Publisher: American Society of Mammalogists
DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyab084

Reproductive conflict resolution in cooperative breeders

Author(s): Dominic L Cram, Arne Jungwirth, Helen Spence-Jones, Tim Clutton-Brock
Published in: Behavioral Ecology, Issue 30/6, 2019, Page(s) 1743-1750, ISSN 1045-2249
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arz143

The ontogeny of foraging in meerkats, a cooperatively breeding mongoose

Author(s): Chris Duncan, Zoe Turner, David Gaynor, Jack Thorley, Tim Vink, Tim Clutton-Brock
Published in: Animal Behaviour, Issue 227, 2025, Page(s) 123302, ISSN 0003-3472
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123302

Freeze-drying can replace cold-chains for transport and storage of fecal microbiome samples

Author(s): Bensch, H.M., Tolf, C., Waldenström, J., Lundin, D. and Zöttl, M.
Published in: PeerJ, 2022, ISSN 2167-8359
Publisher: PeerJ
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.13095

Seek and learn: Automated identification of microevents in animal behaviour using envelopes of acceleration data and machine learning

Author(s): Pritish Chakravarty, Gabriele Cozzi, Hooman Dejnabadi, Pierre‐Alexandre Léziart, Marta Manser, Arpat Ozgul, Kamiar Aminian
Published in: Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2020, ISSN 2041-210X
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210x.13491

Turnover in male dominance offsets the positive effect of polygyny on within-group relatedness

Author(s): Dyble, M. and Clutton-Brock, T.H.
Published in: Behavioral Ecology, 2023, ISSN 1045-2249
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arac121

Increases in glucocorticoids are sufficient but not necessary to increase cooperative burrowing in Damaraland mole-rats

Author(s): Vullioud, P., Mendonca, R., Glauser, G., Bennett, N., Zottle, M., Katlein, N., Leal, R., Fuerst, R. and Clutton-Brock, T.
Published in: Hormones and Behavior, 2021, ISSN 0018-506X
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2021.105034

Vocalization-associated respiration patterns: thermography-based monitoring and detection of preparation for calling

Author(s): Demartsev, V., Manser, M. B. and Tattersall, G. J.
Published in: Journal of Experimental Biology, 2022, ISSN 0022-0949
Publisher: The Company of Biologists Ltd.
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.243474

Combining accelerometry with allometry for estimating daily energy expenditure in joules when in-lab calibration is unavailable.

Author(s): Chakravarty, P., Cozzi, G., Scantlebury, D.M., Ozgul, A. and Aminian, K.
Published in: Movement Ecology, Issue 11, 2023, Page(s) 29, ISSN 2051-3933
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1186/s40462-023-00395-0

Signalling adjustments to direct and indirect environmental effects on signal perception in meerkats

Author(s): Pauline Toni, Gabriella E. C. Gall, Tim H. Clutton-Brock, Marta B. Manser
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 15, 2024, Page(s) e0238313, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0238313

Behavioural change during dispersal and its relationship to survival and reproduction in a cooperative breeder

Author(s): Natasha D. Harrison, Nino Maag, Paul J. Haverkamp, André Ganswindt, Marta B. Manser, Tim H. Clutton‐Brock, Arpat Ozgul, Gabriele Cozzi
Published in: Journal of Animal Ecology, 2021, ISSN 0021-8790
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13569

Disentangling influence over group speed and direction reveals multiple patterns of influence in moving meerkat groups

Author(s): Averly, B., Sridhar, V.H., Demartsev, V., Gall, G., Manser, M. and Strandburg-Purshkin, A.
Published in: NatureScientific Reports, 2022, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-17259-z

Group size increases inequality in cooperative behaviour

Author(s): Shay Rotics, Tim Clutton-Brock
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 288/1945, 2021, Page(s) 20202104, ISSN 0962-8452
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2020.2104

Benefits of cooperation in captive Damaraland mole-rats

Author(s): Thomas M Houslay, Philippe Vullioud, Markus Zöttl, Tim H Clutton-Brock
Published in: Behavioral Ecology, Issue 31/3, 2020, Page(s) 711-718, ISSN 1045-2249
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/araa015

Contrasts in kinship structure in mammalian societies

Author(s): Mark Dyble, Tim H Clutton-Brock
Published in: Behavioral Ecology, Issue 31/4, 2020, Page(s) 971-977, ISSN 1045-2249
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/araa043

Effect of exogenous manipulation of glucocorticoid concentrations on meerkat heart rate, behaviour and vocal production

Author(s): Isabel Driscoll, Elodie F. Briefer, Andre Ganswindt, Marta B. Manser
Published in: Hormones and Behavior, Issue 168, 2025, Page(s) 105676, ISSN 0018-506X
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2025.105676

Social evolution in mammals

Author(s): Tim Clutton-Brock
Published in: Science, Issue 373/6561, 2021, ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.abc9699

Pregnancy reduces concurrent pup-care behaviour in meerkats, generating differences between dominant and subordinate females

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