Kalahari Meerkat Project

Recent papers from Kalahari Meerkat Project

1. The bind of the burrow: trade-offs between refuge and foraging shape space use in Kalahari meerkatsAnimal Behaviour · 2026
2. Cognitive abilities show distinct developmental trajectories in wild meerkatsProceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2026
3. Capturing the unseen: A low‐cost method for stratified subterranean sampling of soil invertebrates in drylandsEcological Solutions and Evidence · 2026
4. Exploring mechanisms underlying heterospecific alarm call responses in meerkats and yellow mongoosesBehavioral Ecology · 2026
5. Maternal androgens shape vocal begging patterns in meerkats, providing competitive advantages in dominant matrilinesHormones and Behavior · 2026
6. Dominance asymmetries shape vocal exchanges in meerkatsBehavioral Ecology · 2026
7. animal2vec and MeerKAT: A self‐supervised transformer for rare‐event raw audio input and a large‐scale reference dataset for bioacousticsSHILAP Revista de lepidopterología · 2025
8. Breeding male mole-rats (Fukomys) use strong bites to defend reproductive monopolyCommunications Biology · 2025
9. The ecology of gestational growth in a wild cooperative mammalJournal of Animal Ecology · 2025
10. Natural variability of trace-amine associated receptors in wild meerkatsFrontiers in Zoology · 2025
11. Variation in Soil Temperature Predicts Small Seasonal Shifts in Daily Activity Patterns of a Social Subterranean RodentJournal of Biological Rhythms · 2025
12. Variation in Soil Temperature Predicts Small Seasonal Shifts in Daily Activity Patterns of a Social Subterranean RodentJournal of Biological Rhythms · 2025
13. Impact of animal socioecology on gut microbial communities: Insights from wild meerkats in the KalahariJournal of Animal Ecology · 2025
14. Predators and management influence adult sex ratio of ungulate communities: Synergies and challenges for contemporary conservationJournal of Applied Ecology · 2025
15. Comparative life-cycle analyses reveal interacting climatic and biotic drivers of population responses to climate changePNAS Nexus · 2025
16. Twenty years of tuberculosis-driven selection shaped the evolution of the meerkat major histocompatibility complexNature Ecology & Evolution · 2025
17. Community wellbeing moderates drought adaptation in South African rangelandsJournal of Environmental Management · 2025
18. Intergenerational effects of maternal androgens on vocal ontogeny and developmental plasticity in a cooperatively breeding mammalHormones and Behavior · 2025
19. Detection Dog Survey Detects African Wild Dog Presence and a Shared Marking SiteEcology and Evolution · 2025
20. Behavioral sequences across multiple animal species in the wild share common structural featuresProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2025