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Research Articles (Mammal Research Institute): Recent submissions

  • A Bat Hawk Macheiramphus alcinus pair preyed primarily on bats and birds that forage in clutter-edge and open-air habitat groups 
    MalaN, G.; Harris, E.; Harris, T.; Monadjem, Ara (NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor & Francis Group), 2022)
    This study aimed to analyse the diet of a pair of Bat Hawks Macheiramphus alcinus, based on regurgitated pellets, and the associated habitat-foraging groups that the prey species belonged to. A total of 908 regurgitated ...
  • Editorial musings on what makes the blood flow in business ethics research 
    Den Hond, Frank; Painter, Mollie (Cambridge University Press, 2022-01)
    Editorial essays,such asthis one, in which incoming editorsto reputed academic journals present their views of a field, their strategy for a journal, and how they are going to impact an ongoing ecology of academic ...
  • Validation of lipid extraction and correction methods for stable isotope analysis of freshwater food webs in southern Africa 
    Van der Merwe, Annelize; Myburgh, Albert; Hall, Grant; Kaiser, Angelica; Woodborne, Stephan M. (NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor & Francis Group), 2022)
    Stable isotope analysis is ubiquitous as a method to investigate food-web dynamics at various scales in aquatic ecology. Most studies make use of dorsal muscle tissue, which involves lethal sampling of the fish. The sampling ...
  • Citizen science survey of non-native Rose-ringed Parakeets Psittacula krameri in the Durban metropole, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa 
    Shivambu, Tinyiko Cavin; Shivambu, Ndivhuwo; Downs, Colleen T. (NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor & Francis Group), 2022)
    The Rose-ringed Parakeet Psittacula krameri (Scopoli, 1769) has become invasive in several countries, including South Africa, mainly through the pet trade releases and escapees. We conducted an online questionnaire survey ...
  • In-air acoustic repertoire and associated behaviour of wild juvenile crabeater seals during rehabilitation 
    Shabangu, Fannie Welcome; Hofmeyr, G.J. Greg; Probert, Rachel; Connan, Maelle; Buhrmann, Corrine A.; Gridley, Tess (Taylor and Francis, 2023)
    In-air sounds of pinnipeds are important for interactions with conspecifics and threat displays. However, little is known about the in-air acoustic repertoire and associated behaviour of crabeater seals Lobodon carcinophaga. ...
  • Canine morphometrics as a tool for distinguishing species, sex, and age class in Southern Ocean fur seals 
    Pretorius, Liezl Eleanore; Bester, Marthan Nieuwoudt; Connan, Maelle; Hofmeyr, G.J. Greg (Wiley, 2022-12)
    Carcasses resulting from natural mortalities are invaluable for use in scientific studies, provided species, sex, and age class are known. When such data are unavailable, identifying skeletal remains is necessary if one ...
  • Down the rabbit hole : domestic rabbit owners’ perceptions of rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus 2 
    Shapiro, Hannah G.; Ruder, Mark G.; Pienaar, Elizabeth Frances (Springer, 2022-12)
    Rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus 2 (RHDV2) is a highly contagious pathogen that infects wild and domestic rabbits and hares (lagomorphs). Globally, RHDV2 has resulted in substantial economic losses for commercial rabbit ...
  • Landscape dynamics (landDX) an open-access spatial-temporal database for the Kenya-Tanzania borderlands 
    Tyrrell, Peter; Amoke, Irene; Betjes, Koen; Broekhuis, Femke; Buitenwerf, Robert; Carroll, Sarah; Hahn, Nathan; Haywood, Daniel; Klaassen, Britt; Lovschal, Mette; Macdonald, David; Maiyo, Karen; Mbithi, Hellen; Mwangi, Nelson; Ochola, Churchil; Odire, Erick; Ondrusek, Victoria; Ratemo, Junior; Pope, Frank; Russell, Samantha; Sairowua, Wilson; Sigilai, Kiptoo; Stabach, Jared A.; Svenning, Jens-Christian; Stone, Elizabeth; Du Toit, Johan T.; Western, Guy; Wittemyer, George; Wall, Jake (Nature Research, 2022-01-18)
    The savannas of the Kenya-Tanzania borderland cover >100,000 km2 and is one of the most important regions globally for biodiversity conservation, particularly large mammals. The region also supports >1 million pastoralists ...
  • Endocrine correlates of female reproductive activity in the roan antelope (Hippotragus equinus) 
    Kamgang, Vanessa Wandja; Bennett, Nigel Charles; Van der Goot, A.C.; Ganswindt, Andre (Wiley, 2023-02)
    Although ovarian endocrine activity has been described in most members of the tribe Hippotragini, little is known about the reproductive endocrine correlates of the roan antelope (Hippotragus equinus), an endangered antelope ...
  • Year-round acoustic monitoring of Antarctic blue and fin whales in relation to environmental conditions off the west coast of South Africa 
    Letsheleha, Ishmail S.; Shabangu, Fannie Welcome; Farrell, Dara; Andrew, Rex K.; La Grange, Philip L.; Findlay, Kenneth Pierce (Springer, 2022-02)
    Antarctic blue and fin whales were once abundant in the southeastern Atlantic Ocean, yet their occurrence and ecology in this region is still poorly understood. Seasonal acoustic occurrence and behaviour of Antarctic blue ...
  • How to describe and measure phenology? An investigation on the diversity of metrics using phenology of births in large herbivores 
    Thel, Lucie; Chamaillé-Jammes, Simon; Bonenfant, Christophe (Wiley, 2022-04)
    Proposed in 1849 by Charles Morren to depict periodical phenomena governed by seasons, the term ‘phenology' has spread in many fields of biology. With the wide adoption of the concept of phenology flourished a large number ...
  • Beyond spatial overlap : harnessing new technologies to resolve the complexities of predator–prey interactions 
    Suraci, Justin P.; Smith, Justine A.; Chamaillé-Jammes, Simon; Gaynor, Kaitlyn M.; Jones, Menna; Luttbeg, Barney; Ritchie, Euan G.; Sheriff, Michael J.; Sih, Andrew (Wiley, 2022-08)
    Predation risk, the probability that a prey animal will be killed by a predator, is fundamental to theoretical and applied ecology. Predation risk varies with animal behavior and environmental conditions, yet attempts to ...
  • Wildlife institutions highly salient to human attitudes toward wildlife 
    Merz, Leandra; Pienaar, Elizabeth Frances; Fik, Timothy; Muyengwa, Shylock; Child, Brian (Wiley, 2023-02)
    Efforts to promote human-wildlife coexistence may be overly focused on wildlife-related costs and benefits. We conducted research in Mozambique to gain insights into how governance of wildlife influences potential for ...
  • Lessons from COVID-19 for wildlife ranching in a changing world 
    Clements, Hayley S.; Child, Matthew F.; Lindeque, Lehman; Lunderstedt, Kyra; De Vos, Alta (Nature Research, 2022-12)
    The COVID-19 pandemic provided an opportunity to assess the impacts of a global disturbance on conservation land uses and learn from responses to the crisis to enable more resilient conservation systems. To understand ...
  • Breeding status of invasive Rose-ringed parakeets Psittacula krameri in Durban, South Africa 
    Shivambu, Tinyiko Cavin; Shivambu, Ndivhuwo; Downs, Colleen T. (NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor and Francis Group), 2022)
    The Rose-ringed Parakeet Psittacula krameri has established feral populations in South African suburban areas. However, the information on the breeding biology of parakeets remains poorly documented in the country. We ...
  • Finally seen : a rare sighting of Antarctic blue whale cow–calf pair off the west coast of South Africa 
    Seakamela, S. Mduduzi; Kotze, Pieter G.H.; Gumede, Nosipho C.; Sibiya, Natalia; Shabangu, Fannie Welcome; McCue, Steven A. (Springer, 2022-12)
    Blue whales are rarely sighted off the coasts of South Africa due to their low numbers and offshore habitat preference. Visual observations to search for marine mammals were conducted onboard a platform of opportunity ...
  • How many bird and mammal extinctions has recent conservation action prevented? 
    Bolam, Friederike C.; Mair, Louise; Angelico, Marco; Brooks, Thomas M.; Burgman, Mark; Hermes, Claudia; Hoffmann, Michael; Martin, Rob W.; McGowan, Philip J.K.; Rodrigue, Ana S.L.; Rondinin, Carlo; Westrip, James R.S.; Wheatley, Hannah; Bedolla-Guzmán, Yuliana; Calzada, Javier; Child, Matthew F.; Cranswick, Peter A.; Dickman, Christopher R.; Fessl, Birgit; Fisher, Diana; Garnett, Stephen T.; Groombridge, Jim J.; Johnson, Christopher N.; Kennerley, Rosalind J.; King, Sarah R.B.; Lamoreux, John F.; Lees, Alexander C.; Lens, Luc; Mahood, Simon P.; Mallon, David P.; Meijaard, Erik; Mendez-Sanchez, Federico; Percequillo, Alexandre Reis; Regan, Tracey J.; Renjifo, Luis Miguel; Rivers, Malin C.; Roach, Nicolette S.; Roxburgh, Lizanne; Safford, Roger J.; Salaman, Paul; Squires, Tom; Vazquez-Dominguez, Ella; Visconti, Piero; Woinarski, John C.Z.; Young, Richard P.; Butchar, Stuart H.M. (Wiley Open Access, 2021-01)
    Aichi Target 12 of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) contains the aim to ‘prevent extinctions of known threatened species’. To measure the degree to which this was achieved, we used expert elicitation to ...
  • Human influence on burrow activity of the Chinese pangolin in Nepal 
    Khatiwada, Ambika P.; Wright, Wendy; Kunkel, Kyran; Khatiwada, Monsoon P.; Waterman, Carly; Bhattarai, Santosh; Baral, Hem S.; Pokheral, Chiranjibi P.; Dalerum, Fredrik (CSIRO Publishing, 2023)
    CONTEXT : People and wildlife are coming into greater contact worldwide because of the increasing human footprint. Although some species tolerate certain levels of human activities, others are vulnerable to human disturbance, ...
  • Cueing on distant conditions before migrating does not prevent false starts : a case study with African elephants 
    Pandraud, Anne; Shrader, A.M. (Adrian); Tshipa, Arnold; Ngwenya, Nobesuthu; Chamaillé-Jammes, Simon (Springer, 2022-04)
    Migratory animals often use environmental cues to time their seasonal migrations. Local conditions may, however, differ from distant ones, and current conditions may poorly predict future conditions. This may be particularly ...
  • Understanding anthropogenic impacts on zoogeochemistry is essential for ecological restoration 
    Abraham, Andrew J.; Duvall, Ethan; Ferraro, Kristy; Webster, Andrea B.; Doughty, Christopher E.; Le Roux, Elizabeth; Ellis-Soto, Diego (Wiley, 2023-03)
    Ecological restoration is critical for climate and biodiversity resilience over the coming century. Today, there is strong evidence that wildlife can significantly influence the distribution and stoichiometry of elements ...