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Kinahan, A.A.; Inge-Moller, R.; Bateman, Philip W.; Kotze, A.; Scantlebury, Michael (Elsevier, 2007-11)Please refer to abstract of article
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Wilson, John W.; Mills, Michael G.L. (Gus); Wilson, Rory P.; Peters, Gerrit; Mills, Margaret E.J.; Speakman, John R.; Durant, Sarah M.; Bennett, Nigel Charles; Marks, Nikki J.; Scantlebury, Michael (Royal Society, 2013-10)Predator–prey interactions are fundamental in the evolution and structure of ecological communities. Our understanding, however, of the strategies used in pursuit and evasion remains limited. Here, we report on the hunting ...
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Joubert, Kenneth E.; Serfontein, Tania; Scantlebury, Michael; Manjerovic, Mary-Beth; Bateman, Philip W.; Bennett, Nigel Charles; Waterman, Jane M. (South African Veterinary Association, 2011)The optimal dose of medetomidine-ketamine-buprenorphine was determined in 25 Cape ground squirrels (Xerus inauris) undergoing surgical implantation of a temperature logger into the abdominal cavity. At the end of anaesthesia, ...
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Lutermann, Heike; Bennett, Nigel Charles; Speakman, John R.; Scantlebury, Michael; Sorci, Gabriele (Public Library of Science, 2013-02-25)Sociality and particularly advanced forms of sociality such as cooperative breeding (living in permanent groups with reproductive division of labour) is relatively rare among vertebrates. A suggested constraint on the ...
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Kotze, Juan; Bennett, Nigel Charles; Scantlebury, Michael (Elsevier, 2008)Small rodents with a large surface-area-to-volume ratio and a high thermal conductance are likely to experience conditions where they have to expend large amounts of energy in order to maintain a constant body temperature ...
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Fleming, Patricia A.; Verburgt, Luke; Scantlebury, Michael; Medger, Katarina; Bateman, Philip W. (University of Chicago Press, 2009-09)Many lizard species will shed their tail as a defensive response (e.g., to escape a putative predator or aggressive conspecific). This caudal autotomy incurs a number of costs as a result of loss of the tail itself, ...
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Thomas, Hannah Grace; Bateman, Philip W.; Scantlebury, Michael; Bennett, Nigel Charles (Wiley, 2012-11)Little is known about how environmental factors such as season influence burrowing activity, burrow structure or reproductive behaviour in subterranean mammals. We excavated burrow systems of male and female Georychus ...
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Thomas, Hannah Grace; Scantlebury, Michael; Swanepoel, Daniel; Bateman, Philip W.; Bennett, Nigel Charles (2013-11)Sociality in mole rats has been suggested to have evolved as a response to the widely dispersed food resources and the limited burrowing opportunities that result from sporadic rainfall events. In the most arid regions, ...
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Thomas, Hannah Grace; Bateman, Philip W.; Scantlebury, Michael; Bennett, Nigel Charles (Zoological Society of Southern Africa, 2012-11)Most polygynous male mammals exhibit little or no parental care or involvement raising young. Instead, they invest indirectly in their own morphological and physiological attributes which enhance their chance of reproduction. ...
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Scantlebury, Michael; Danek-Gontard, Marine; Bateman, Philip W.; Bennett, Nigel Charles; Manjerovic, Mary-Beth; Joubert, Kenneth E.; Waterman, Jane M.; Briffa, Mark (Public Library of Science, 2012-04-27)Please read abstract in the article.
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Schradin, Carsten; Scantlebury, Michael; Pillay, Neville; Konig, Barbara (University of Chicago Press, 2009-03)The relative plasticity hypothesis predicts that alternative tactics are associated with changes in steroid hormone levels. In species with alternative male reproductive tactics, the highest androgen levels have usually ...
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