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  • Resource selection in reintroduced lions and the influence of intergroup interactions 
    Yiu, Sze-Wing; Karczmarski, Leszek; Parrini, Francesca; Keith, Mark (Wiley, 2019-02)
    Optimal resource selection is crucial for maximising fitness and survival. Animals introduced to a new area need time to explore the environment, which could result in a time lag before optimal selection occurs. Furthermore, ...
  • Responses to reduced feeding frequency in captive-born cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) : implications for behavioural and physiological stress and gastrointestinal health 
    Brown, Kelsey Lee; Ganswindt, Andre; Steenkamp, Gerhard; Tordiffe, A.S.W. (Adrian Stephen Wolferstan) (MDPI, 2023-09)
    Unnatural diet composition and frequent feeding regimes may play an aetiological role in the multiple diseases prevalent in captive cheetahs. This study investigated the responses of captive-born (hand-reared) cheetahs ...
  • The retrospective analysis of Antarctic tracking data project 
    Ropert-Coudert, Yan; Van de Putte, Anton P.; Reisinger, Ryan R.; Bornemann, Horst; Charrassin, Jean-Benoit; Costa, Daniel P.; Danis, Bruno; Huckstadt, Luis A .; Huckstadt, Luis A.; Jonsen, Ian D.; Lea, Mary-Anne; Thompson, David; Torres, Leigh G.; Trathan, Philip N.; Wotherspoon, Simon; Ainley, David G.; Alderman, Rachael; Andrews-Goff, Virginia; Arthur, Ben; Ballard, Grant; Bengtson, John; Bester, Marthan Nieuwoudt; Blix, Arnoldus Schytte; Boehme, Lars; Bost, Charles-Andre; Boveng, Peter; Cleeland, Jaimie; Constantine, Rochelle; Crawford, Robert J.M.; Rosa, Luciano Dalla; De Bruyn, P.J. Nico; Delord, Karine; Descamps, Sebastien; Double, Mike; Emmerson, Louise; Fedak, Mike; Friedlaender, Ari; Gales, Nick; Goebel, Mike; Goetz, Kimberly T.; Guinet, Christophe; Goldsworthy, Simon D.; Harcourt, Rob; Hinke, Jefferson T.; Jerosch, Kerstin; Kato, Akiko; Kerry, Knowles R.; Kirkwood, Roger; Kooyman, Gerald L.; Kovacs, Kit M.; Lawton, Kieran; Lowther, Andrew D.; Lydersen, Christian; Lyver, Phil O’B.; Makhado, Azwianewi B.; Marquez, Maria E. I.; McDonald, Birgitte I.; McMahon, Clive Reginald; Muelbert, Monica; Nachtsheim, Dominik; Nicholls, Keith W.; Nordoy, Erling S.; Olmastroni, Silvia; Phillips, Richard A.; Pistorius, Pierre Anton; Plotz, Joachim; Putz, Klemens; Ratcliffe, Norman; Ryan, Peter G.; Santos, Mercedes; Southwell, Colin; Staniland, Iain; Takahashi, Akinori; Tarroux, Arnaud; Trivelpiece, Wayne; Wakefield, Ewan; Weimerskirch, Henri; Wienecke, Barbara; Xavier, Jose C.; Raymond, Ben; Hindell, Mark A . (Nature Publishing Group, 2020-03-18)
    The Retrospective Analysis of Antarctic Tracking Data (RAATD) is a Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research project led jointly by the Expert Groups on Birds and Marine Mammals and Antarctic Biodiversity Informatics, ...
  • Return customers : foraging site fidelity and the effect of environmental variability in wide-ranging Antarctic fur seals 
    Arthur, Benjamin; Hindell, Mark A.; Bester, Marthan Nieuwoudt; Trathan, Phil; Jonsen, Ian; Staniland, Lain; Oosthuizen, Wessel Christiaan; Wege, Mia; Lea, Mary-Anne (Public Library of Science, 2015-03-25)
    Strategies employed by wide-ranging foraging animals involve consideration of habitat quality and predictability and should maximise net energy gain. Fidelity to foraging sites is common in areas of high resource ...
  • A review of community-based natural resource management 
    Milupi, I.D. (Inonge); Somers, Michael J.; Ferguson, Jan Willem Helenus (Levente Hufnagel (ALOKI Kft.), 2017)
    Please read abstract in article.
  • A review of post-whaling abundance, trends, changes in distribution and migration patterns, and supplementary feeding of Southern Hemisphere humpback whales 
    Seyboth, E.; Meynecke, Jan-Olaf; De Bie, Jasper; Roychoudhury, Alakendra; Findlay, Ken P. (Frontiers Media, 2023-10-19)
    Southern Hemisphere humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) were heavily targeted during modern commercial whaling operations, with some 216,000 individuals killed between 1903 and 1973. That impacted the abundance of ...
  • A review of the anthropogenic threats faced by Temminck's ground pangolin, Smutsia temminckii, in southern Africa 
    Pietersen, Darren William; McKechnie, Andrew E.; Jansen, Raymond (Southern African Wildlife Management Association, 2014-10)
    Throughout its range, Temminck’s ground pangolin, Smutsia temminckii, is becoming increasingly threatened, predominantly as a result of anthropogenic pressures. This species is currently listed as Vulnerable in South ...
  • A revision of pipistrelle-like bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) in East Africa with the description of new genera and species 
    Monadjem, Ara; Demos, Terrence C.; Dalton, Desire L.; Webala, Paul W.; Musila, Simon; Peterhans, Julian C. Kerbis; Patterson, Bruce D. (Oxford University Press, 2021-04)
    Vespertilionidae (class Mammalia) constitutes the largest family of bats, with ~500 described species. Nonetheless, the systematic relationships within this family are poorly known, especially among the pipistrelle-like ...
  • Revisiting animal photo-identification using deep metric learning and network analysis 
    Miele, Vincent; Dussert, Gaspard; Spataro, Bruno; Chamaillé-Jammes, Simon; Allaine, Dominique; Bonenfant, Christophe (Wiley, 2021-05)
    An increasing number of ecological monitoring programmes rely on photographic capture–recapture of individuals to study distribution, demography and abundance of species. Photo-identification of individuals can sometimes ...
  • Risk assessment in the plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae) : intensity of behavioral response differs with predator species 
    Wei, Wanrong; Zhen, Qiaoyan; Tang, Zhongmin; Oosthuizen, Maria Kathleen (BioMed Central, 2020-07)
    BACKGROUND: The ability of a prey species to assess the risk that a predator poses can have important ftness advantages for the prey species. To better understand predator–prey interactions, more species need to be observed ...
  • Ritualised dung kicking by white rhino males amplifies olfactory signals but reduces odour duration 
    Marneweck, Courtney; Jürgens, Andreas; Shrader, A.M. (Adrian) (Springer, 2018-10)
    Many mammals enhance their olfactory signals visually by depositing them in conspicuous locations such as well-travelled paths. It is also possible to enhance the odour itself through behaviours aimed at modifying odour ...
  • Rival assessment by territorial southern white rhinoceros males via eavesdropping on the contact and courtship calls 
    Cinkova, Ivana; Shrader, A.M. (Adrian) (Elsevier, 2020-08)
    Eavesdropping on vocal signals allows animals to gather information about conspecifics. For males, eavesdropping can be a low-risk method for determining the dominance status (e.g. territorial or subordinate) and motivation ...
  • The role of middens in white rhino olfactory communication 
    Marneweck, Courtney; Jürgens, Andreas; Shrader, A.M. (Adrian) (Elsevier, 2018-06)
    White rhinos (Ceratotherium simum) use dung odours to transmit information about their sex, age, territorial status (males) and oestrous state. Moreover, as white rhinos defecate in communal middens (i.e. dung heaps, or ...
  • The role of neurokinin B signalling in reproductive neuroendocrinology 
    Grachev, Pasha; Millar, Robert P.; O’Byrne, Kevin T. (Karger, 2014-12)
    The KNDy neuropeptides, kisspeptin, neurokinin B (NKB) and dynorphin A (Dyn), have been implicated in regulating pulsatile luteinising hormone (LH) secretion. Studies of the interactions between KNDy signalling systems, ...
  • Rosettes, remingtons and reputation : establishing potential determinants of leopard (Panthera pardus) trophy prices across Africa 
    Braczkowski, Alexander R.; Balme, Guy A.; Dickman, Amy; Macdonald, David W.; Johnson, Paul J.; Lindsey, Peter Andrew; Hunter, Luke T.B. (Southern African Wildlife Management Association, 2015-09)
    In a number of African countries, the trophy hunting of large felids is an important revenue generator for landholders, governments and in some cases communities. The hunting of large felids is especially profitable but ...
  • Ross seal distribution in the Weddell Sea : fact and fallacy 
    Bester, Marthan Nieuwoudt; Wege, Mia; Oosthuizen, Wessel Christiaan; Bornemann, Horst (Springer, 2020-01)
    The presence of Ross seals (Ommatophoca rossii) throughout the Weddell Sea is at best equivocal although overview articles usually depict this as fact on distribution maps. This study reviewed the appropriate literature ...
  • Rostrum abnormalities in the endangered Indian Ocean humpback dolphin (Sousa plumbea) in South Africa 
    Frainer, Guilherme; Elwen, Simon Harvey; Dines, Sasha; James, Bridget; Vermeulen, Els; Penry, Gwenith; Vargas-Fonseca, O. Alejandra; Atkins, Shanan; Conry, Danielle S.; Gridley, Tess (Wiley, 2023-07)
    Morphological abnormalities in wild animals can be indicators of the underlying health of a population and may be determined through routine photographic surveys. Here, we assess unusual rostrum conditions in Indian Ocean ...
  • Satellite tagging and biopsy sampling of killer whales at Subantarctic Marion Island : effectiveness, immediate reactions and long-term responses 
    Reisinger, Ryan Rudolf; Oosthuizen, Wessel Christiaan; Peron, Guillaume; Toussaint, Dawn Cory; Andrews, Russel D.; De Bruyn, P.J. Nico (Public Library of Science, 2014-11)
    Remote tissue biopsy sampling and satellite tagging are becoming widely used in large marine vertebrate studies because they allow the collection of a diverse suite of otherwise difficult-to-obtain data which are critical ...
  • Savanna rodents’ selective removal of an encroaching plant’s seeds increased with grass biomass 
    Teman, Sarah J.; Stevens, Nicola; Monadjem, Ara; Fletcher Jr., Robert J.; Austin, James D.; McCleery, Robert A. (Frontiers Media, 2021-06-15)
    In savannas across the planet, encroaching woody plants are altering ecosystem functions and reshaping communities. Seed predation by rodents may serve to slow the encroachment of woody plants in grasslands and savannas. ...
  • A scale for quantifying behavior based on aggressiveness in bats 
    Shapiro, Julie Teresa; Stanton Jr, Richard A.; McCleery, Robert A.; Monadjem, Ara (Spanish Association of Bat Research and Conservation, 2021)
    Behavior and personality play a crucial role in the evolution and ecology of animal species. We have limited knowledge of bat personality traits, partially due to the time, equipment, and facilities needed to measure ...