• Partial migration in savanna elephant populations distributed across southern Africa 

  Purdon, Andrew; Mole, Michael A.; Chase, Michael J.; Van Aarde, Rudi J. (Nature Publishing Group, 2018-07-27)

  Migration is an important, but threatened ecological process. Conserving migration requires the maintenance of functional connectivity across sufficiently large areas. Therefore, we need to know if, where and why species ...
• Dung beetle activity improves herbaceous plant growth and soil properties on confinements simulating reclaimed mined land in South Africa 

  Badenhorst, Jessica; Dabrowski, Jacqueline; Scholtz, Clarke H.; Truter, Wayne Frederick (Elsevier, 2018-12)

  Mining activities contribute greatly to economic growth and development in South Africa. However, post-mining soils have limited land-use potential due to low fertility, deficiency in organic matter content and poor physical, ...
• The phoretic association between Cyaneolytta Peringuey (Coleoptera: Meloidae) triungulins and Anthia Weber (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in southern Africa 

  Scholtz, Clarke H.; Basson, R.J.; Bologna, M.A. (Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 2018-09)

  Phoresis is the interspecific symbiotic association in which one of two participants, the phoront, utilises the other participant in the association (the host) for mechanical transport. The association is seldom ...
• Rank-related contrasts in longevity arise from extra-group excursions not delayed senescence in a cooperative mammal 

  Cram, Dominic L.; Monaghan, Pat; Gillespie, Robert; Dantzer, Ben; Duncan, Christopher; Spence-Jones, Helen; Clutton-Brock, Tim H. (Elsevier, 2018-09)

  In many cooperatively breeding animal societies, breeders outlive non-breeding subordinates, despite investing heavily in reproduction. In eusocial insects, the extended lifespans of breeders arise from specialized slowed ...
• Noninvasive measurements of ovarian activity in Beira antelope (Dorcatragus megalotis) 

  Wolf, T.E. (Tanja); Arif, Abdi; Bennett, Nigel C., 1961-; Ganswindt, Andre (Wiley, 2018-09)

  As the natural habitat of more and more species becomes depleted, captive breeding programmes have become established to bring species back from the brink of extinction. Monitoring the reproductive status of an individual ...
• Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) sperm revisited : motility, morphology and ultrastructure of fresh sperm of consecutive ejaculates 

  Van der Horst, Gerhard; Medger, Katarina; Steckler, Daniela; Luther, Ilse; Bartels, Paul (Elsevier, 2018-08)

  Computer aided sperm analysis systems allow detailed examination of sperm motility and morphology variables, which are important for the understanding of the spermatology of a species and the development of assisted ...
• Analysis of gonadotrophin‐releasing hormone‐1 and kisspeptin neuronal systems in the nonphotoregulated seasonally breeding eastern rock elephant‐shrew (Elephantulus myurus) 

  Medger, Katarina; Bennett, Nigel C., 1961-; Chimimba, Christian Timothy; Oosthuizen, Maria Kathleen; Mikkelsen, Jens D.; Coen, Clive W. (Wiley, 2018-10)

  Of the 18 sub‐Saharan elephant‐shrew species, only eastern rock elephant‐shrews reproduce seasonally throughout their distribution, a process seemingly independent of photoperiod. The present study characterizes gonadal ...
• Moving in the Anthropocene : global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements 

  Tucker, Marlee A.; Böhning-Gaese, Katrin; Fagan, William F.; Fryxell, John M.; Van Moorter, Bram; Alberts, Susan C.; Ali, Abdullahi H.; Allen, Andrew M.; Attias, Nina; Avgar, Tal; Bartlam-Brooks, Hattie; Bayarbaatar, Buuveibaatar; Belant, Jerrold L.; Bertassoni, Alessandra; Beyer, Dean; Bidner, Laura; Van Beest, Floris M.; Blake, Stephen; Blaum, Niels; Bracis, Chloe; Brown, Danielle; De Bruyn, P.J. Nico; Cagnacci, Francesca; Calabrese, Justin M.; Camilo-Alves, Constança; Chamaillé-Jammes, Simon; Chiaradia, Andre; Davidson, Sarah C.; Dennis, Todd; DeStefano, Stephen; Diefenbach, Duane; Douglas-Hamilton, Iain; Fennessy, Julian; Fichtel, Claudia; Fiedler, Wolfgang; Fischer, Christina; Fischhoff, Ilya; Fleming, Christen H.; Ford, Adam; Fritz, Susanne; Gehr, Benedikt; Goheen, Jacob R.; Gurarie, Eliezer; Hebblewhite, Mark; Heurich, Marco; Hewison, A.J. Mark; Hof, Christian; Hurme, Edward; Isbell, Lynne A.; Janssen, René; Jeltsch, Florian; Kaczensky, Petra; Kane, Adam; Kappeler, Peter M.; Kauffman, Matthew; Kays, Roland; Kimuyu, Duncan; Koch, Flavia; Kranstauber, Bart; LaPoint, Scott; Leimgruber, Peter; Linnell, John D.C.; López-López, Pascual; Markham, A. Catherine; Mattisson, Jenny; Medici, Emilia Patricia; Mellone, Ugo; Merrill, Evelyn; De Miranda Mourão, Guilherme; Morato, Ronaldo G.; Morellet, Nicolas; Morrison, Thomas; Díaz-Muñoz, Samuel L.; Mysterud, Atle; Nandintsetseg, Dejid; Nathan, Ran; Niamir, Aidin; Odden, John; O'Hara, Robert B.; Oliveira-Santos, Luiz Gustavo R.; Olson, Kirk A.; Patterson, Bruce D.; De Paula, Rogerio Cunha; Pedrotti, Luca; Reineking, Björn; Rimmler, Martin; Rogers, Tracy L.; Rolandsen, Christer Moe; Rosenberry, Christopher S.; Rubenstein, Daniel I.; Safi, Kamran; Saïd, Sonia; Sapir, Nir; Sawyer, Hall; Schmidt, Niels Martin; Selva, Nuria; Sergiel, Agnieszka; Shiilegdamba, Enkhtuvshin; Silva, João Paulo; Singh, Navinder; Solberg, Erling J.; Spiegel, Orr; Strand, Olav; Sundaresan, Siva; Ullmann, Wiebke; Voigt, Ulrich; Wall, Jake; Wattles, David; Wikelski, Martin; Wilmers, Christopher C.; Wilson, John W.; Wittemyer, George; Ziȩba, Filip; Zwijacz-Kozica, Tomasz; Mueller, Thomas (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2018-01)

  Animal movement is fundamental for ecosystem functioning and species survival, yet the effects of the anthropogenic footprint on animal movements have not been estimated across species. Using a unique GPS-tracking database ...
• A new species of Scolecoseps (Reptilia: Scincidae) from coastal north-eastern Mozambique 

  Verburgt, Luke; Verburgt, U.K. (Ursula); Branch, William R. (Taylor and Francis, 2018)

  Seven specimens of Scolecoseps Loveridge, 1920 from the vicinity of Palma on the north coast of Mozambique are compared morphologically with other known material of this genus. The new material can be distinguished ...
• Digestibility and nutritional value of fresh and stored pollen for honey bees (Apis mellifera scutellata) 

  Nicolson, Sue W.; Das Neves, Susana Da Silva; Human, Hannelie; Pirk, Christian Walter Werner (Elsevier, 2018-05)

  Pollen, the main protein source for honey bees, is mixed with regurgitated nectar or honey during collection and then stored as ‘bee bread’ before its consumption, mainly by young nurse workers. It has been suggested that ...
• Thermal physiology of three sympatric small mammals from southern Africa 

  Hoole, Carol; Czenze, Z.J.; Bennett, Nigel C., 1961-; McKechnie, Andrew E. (Wiley, 2018-09)

  Please read abstract in the article.
• Social networks of spotted hyaenas in areas of contrasting human activity and infrastructure 

  Belton, L.E. (Lydia); Cameron, Elissa Z.; Dalerum, Fredrik (Elsevier, 2018-01)

  In group-living animals, the structure of social interactions among group members can have important consequences for individual fitness. Changes in resource abundance can influence social interactions with an expected ...
• The topography of rods, cones and intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells in the retinas of a nocturnal (Micaelamys namaquensis) and a diurnal (Rhabdomys pumilio) rodent 

  Van der Merwe, Ingrid; Lukats, Akos; Blahova, Veronika; Oosthuizen, Maria Kathleen; Bennett, Nigel C., 1961-; Nemec, Pavel (Public Library of Science, 2018-08-09)

  We used immunocytochemistry to determine the presence and topographical density distributions of rods, cones, and intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs) in the four-striped field mouse (Rhabdomys ...
• Phylogenetic relationships in southern African Bryde’s whales inferred from mitochondrial DNA : further support for subspecies delineation between the two allopatric populations 

  Penry, G.S. (Gwenith); Hammond, Philip S.; Cockcroft, Victor G.; Best, Peter B.; Thornton, Meredith; Graves, Jeff A. (Springer, 2018-09)

  Bryde’s whales (Balaenoptera edeni) are medium-sized balaenopterids with tropical and subtropical distribution. There is confusion about the number of species, subspecies and populations of Bryde’s whale found globally. ...
• Turning workers into false queens : the role of exogenous pheromones in regulating reproduction in worker honey bees 

  Yusuf, Abdullahi Ahmed; Crewe, Robin M.; Pirk, Christian Walter Werner (Company of Biologists, 2018-05)

  One of the responses that honey bee workers can make in the event of queen loss is to develop into false queens. False queens are workers that exhibit both behavioural and physiological traits similar to those of a true ...
• Differences in hormonal signaling triggered by two root-feeding nematode species result in contrasting effects on aphid population growth 

  Van Dam, Nicole M.; Wondafrash, Mesfin; Mathur, Vartika; Tytgat, Tom O.G. (Frontiers Media, 2018-06-26)

  Belowground feeding herbivores can affect their aboveground counterparts via systemic induced responses. Hormonal signaling pathways, such as the jasmonic acid (JA) and salicylic acid (SA) pathways, play a pivotal role in ...
• Opportunistic ship-based census of pack ice seals in eastern Weddell Sea, Antarctica 

  Bester, Marthan Nieuwoudt; Wege, Mia; Lubcker, Nico; Postma, Martin; Syndercombe, Gavin (Springer, 2018-09)

  The distribution, density and percentage contribution of pack ice pinnipeds during ship-board censuses in the eastern Weddell Sea in summer 2015/2016 are presented. Of the four true pack ice seal species encountered, ...
• Managing for change : using vertebrate at sea habitat use to direct management efforts 

  Arthur, Benjamin; Hindell, Mark; Bester, Marthan Nieuwoudt; De Bruyn, P.J. Nico; Goebel, Michael E.; Trathan, Phil; Lea, Mary-Anne (Elsevier, 2018-08)

  To understand and predict current and future distributions of animals under a changing climate it is essential to establish historical ranges as baselines against which distribution shifts can be assessed. Management ...
• Attempted molecular detection of the thermally dimorphic human fungal pathogen Emergomyces africanus in terrestrial small mammals in South Africa 

  Cronjé, Nadine; Schwartz, Ilan S.; Retief, Liezl; Bastos, Armanda D.S.; Matthee, Sonja; Preiser, Wolfgang; Bennett, Nigel C., 1961-; Maphanga, Tsidiso; Govender, Nelesh P.; Colebunders, Robert; Kenyon, Chris (Oxford University Press, 2018-06)

  The ecological niche of Emergomyces africanus (formerly Emmonsia species), a dimorphic fungus that causes an AIDS-related mycosis in South Africa, is unknown. We hypothesized that natural infection with E. africanus occurs ...

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