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Journal articles
, 2020, 'Spatio-temporal factors impacting encounter occurrences between leopards and other large African predators', Journal of Zoology, 310, pp. 191 - 200, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jzo.12746
, 2020, 'Box A3: Making Sense of Scents', , pp. 77 - 79, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118968543.oth3
, 2019, 'OpenDropOff: An open-source, low-cost drop-off unit for animal-borne devices', Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 10, pp. 1517 - 1522, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13231
, 2019, 'Pets and pests: a review of the contrasting economics and fortunes of dingoes and domestic dogs in Australia, and a proposed new funding scheme for non-lethal dingo management', Wildlife Research, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/WR19030
, 2019, 'Parsimonious test of dynamic interaction', Ecology and Evolution, 9, pp. 1654 - 1664, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4805
, 2019, 'Cheetah marking trees: Distribution, visitation and behaviour', African Journal of Ecology, 57, pp. 419 - 422, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aje.12602
, 2019, 'Chemical capture of wild swamp buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) in tropical northern Australia using thiafentanil, etorphine and azaperone combinations', Australian Veterinary Journal, 97, pp. 33 - 38, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/avj.12782
, 2017, 'On the Right Track? Comparing Concurrent Spoor and Camera-Trap Surveys in Botswana', African Journal of Wildlife Research, 47, pp. 128 - 137, http://dx.doi.org/10.3957/056.047.0128
, 2017, 'Sneeze to leave: African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) use variable quorum thresholds facilitated by sneezes in collective decisions', Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 284, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.0347
, 2017, 'Dynamics of direct inter-pack encounters in endangered African wild dogs', Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 71, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-017-2338-9
, 2017, 'The effect of relatedness and pack size on territory overlap in African wild dogs', Movement Ecology, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40462-017-0099-8
, 2017, 'Does wildlife resource selection accurately inform corridor conservation?', Journal of Applied Ecology, 54, pp. 412 - 422, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.12714
, 2017, 'An exploratory clustering approach for extracting stride parameters from tracking collars on free-ranging wild animals', Journal of Experimental Biology, 220, pp. 341 - 346, http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.146035
, 2017, 'Living on the edge: Characteristics of human-wildlife conflict in a traditional livestock community in Botswana', Wildlife Research, 44, pp. 546 - 557, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/WR16160
, 2016, 'Lessons from integrating behaviour and resource selection: activity-specific responses of African wild dogs to roads', Animal Conservation, 19, pp. 247 - 255, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/acv.12235
, 2016, 'Additive opportunistic capture explains group hunting benefits in African wild dogs', Nature Communications, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11033
, 2016, 'Energy cost and return for hunting in African wild dogs and cheetahs', Nature Communications, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11034
, 2015, 'Ecological predictors of African wild dog ranging patterns in Northern Botswana', Journal of Mammalogy, 96, pp. 1214 - 1223, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyv130
, 2014, 'Top marks from top dogs: Tandem marking and pair bond advertisement in african wild dogs', Animal Behaviour, 88, pp. 211 - 217, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.12.001
, 2014, 'The "tomcat compound" 3-mercapto-3-methylbutanol occurs in the urine of free-ranging leopards but not in African lions or cheetahs', Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, 53, pp. 17 - 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bse.2013.12.013
, 2013, 'Scent-mark identification and scent-marking behaviour in African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus)', Ethology, 119, pp. 644 - 652, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/eth.12105
, 2012, 'Fine-scale spatiotemporal patterns of genetic variation reflect budding dispersal coupled with strong natal philopatry in a cooperatively breeding mammal', Molecular Ecology, 21, pp. 5348 - 5362, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.12015
, 2012, 'Molecular comparison of historical and contemporary pine marten (Martes martes) populations in the British Isles: Evidence of differing origins and fates, and implications for conservation management', Conservation Genetics, 13, pp. 1195 - 1212, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10592-012-0365-7
, 2011, 'Scent marking in wild banded mongooses: 1. Sex-specific scents and overmarking', Animal Behaviour, 81, pp. 31 - 42, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.07.010
, 2011, 'Scent marking in wild banded mongooses: 2. Intrasexual overmarking and competition between males', Animal Behaviour, 81, pp. 43 - 50, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.07.009
, 2011, 'Scent marking in wild banded mongooses: 3. Intrasexual overmarking in females', Animal Behaviour, 81, pp. 51 - 60, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.10.007
, 2010, 'Scent marking within and between groups of wild banded mongooses', Journal of Zoology, 280, pp. 72 - 83, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.2009.00646.x
, 2008, 'Radiocollars do not affect the survival or foraging behaviour of wild meerkats', Journal of Zoology, 274, pp. 248 - 253, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.2007.00377.x
, 2007, 'Scent-marking investment is determined by sex and breeding status in meerkats', Animal Behaviour, 74, pp. 531 - 540, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.12.015
, 2007, 'Latrine distribution and patterns of use by wild meerkats: implications for territory and mate defence', Animal Behaviour, 73, pp. 613 - 622, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.06.010
, 2007, 'Helpers increase the reproductive potential of offspring in cooperative meerkats', Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 274, pp. 513 - 520, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2006.3698
, 2006, 'Intrasexual competition and sexual selection in cooperative mammals', Nature, 444, pp. 1065 - 1068, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature05386
, 2006, 'Elevated prolactin levels immediately precede decisions to babysit by male meerkat helpers', Hormones and Behavior, 50, pp. 94 - 100, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2006.01.009
, 2006, 'Cortisol levels are positively associated with pup-feeding rates in male meerkats', Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 273, pp. 571 - 577, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2005.3087
, 2005, ''False feeding' and aggression in meerkat societies', Animal Behaviour, 69, pp. 1273 - 1284, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2004.10.006
, 2005, 'Welfare implications of captive primate population management: Behavioural and psycho-social effects of female-based contraception, oestrus and male removal in hamadryas baboons (Papio hamadryas)', Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 90, pp. 155 - 165, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.applanim.2004.08.014
, 2004, 'Adaptive size modification by dominant female meerkats', Evolution, 58, pp. 1600 - 1607, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0014-3820.2004.tb01739.x
, 2004, 'ADAPTIVE SIZE MODIFICATION BY DOMINANT FEMALE MEERKATS', Evolution, 58, pp. 1600 - 1600, http://dx.doi.org/10.1554/03-480
, 2002, 'Top marks from top dogs: Tandem marking and pair bond advertisement in dominant African wild dogs', New Scientist, 176, pp. 42
Conference Papers
, 2023, 'Evolution of the highest sound pressure levels in mammalian echolocation calls', in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Acoustical Society of America (ASA), pp. A217 - A217, http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/10.0023332
, 2023, 'Evolution of the highest sound pressure levels in vertebrate communication calls', in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Acoustical Society of America (ASA), pp. A217 - A217, http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/10.0023331
, 2016, 'Pair-specific scents in African wild dogs, Lycaon pictus, and an example of a potential method to identify signals within complex mixtures.', Springer, pp. 461 - 476
Preprints
, 2023, How territoriality and sociality influence the habitat selection and movement of a large carnivore, http://dx.doi.org/10.22541/au.169589533.38892364/v1