Publications and Research

Peer-reviewed articles

• Bell, M.B.V. 2011. In press. Sex and age influence responses to changes in the cost of cooperative care in a social carnivore. Behavioral Ecology
• Bell, M.B.V., Nichols, H.J., Gilchrist, J.S., Cant, M.A. & Hodge, S.J. 2011. The cost of dominance: suppressing subordinate reproduction affects the reproductive success of dominant female banded mongooses. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B
• Furrer, R., Kyabulima, S., Willems, E., Cant, M.A., Manser, M. 2011. Location and group size influence decisions in simulated inter-group encounters in banded mongooses. Behavioral Ecology 22:493-500
• Jordan, N.R., Manser, M.B., Mwanguhya, F., Kyabulima, S., Ruedi, P., Cant, M.A. 2011. Scent marking in wild banded mongooses: 1. Sex-specific scents & overmarking. Animal Behaviour, 81, 31-42
• Jordan, N.R., Furrer, R., Kyabulima, S., Ruedi, P., Cant, M.A. 2011. Scent marking in wild banded mongooses: 2. Intrasexual marking and competition between males. Animal Behaviour, 81, 43-50
• Jordan, N.R., Mwanguhya, F., Kyabulima, S., Ruedi, P., Cant, M.A. (In press). Scent marking in wild banded mongooses: 3. Intrasexual overmarking in females. Animal Behaviour, 81, 51-66
• Nichols, H.J., Amos, W., Cant, M.A., MBV, B., & Hodge, S.J. 2011. Top males gain high reproductive success by guarding more successful females in a cooperatively breeding mongoose. Animal Behaviour, 80, 649-657.
• Cant, M.A., Hodge, S.J., Bell, M.B.V., Gilchrist, J.S. & Nichols, H.J. 2010. Reproductive control via eviction (but not the threat of eviction) in banded mongooses. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 277:2219-2226
• Hodge, S.J., Bell, M.B.V. & Cant, M.A. 2010. Reproductive competition and the evolution of extreme birth synchrony in a cooperative mammal. Biology Letters
• Jordan, N.R., Mwanguhya, F., Kyabulima, S., Ruedi, P., and Cant, M.A. 2010. Scent marking within and between groups in banded mongooses. Journal of Zoology 280:72-83.
• Muller, C.A. & Cant, M.A. 2010. Imitation and traditions in wild banded mongooses. Current Biology 20:1-5
• Hodge, S.J., Bell, M.B.V., Mwanghuya F., Kyabulima, S., Waldick, R. & Russell, A.F. (2009) Maternal weight, offspring competition and the evolution of communal breeding. 20, 729-735. Behavioural Ecology
• Müller CA, Bell MBV 2009. Kidnapping and infanticide between groups of banded mongooses. Mammalian Biology.
• Bell MBV, 2008. Strategic adjustment of begging effort by banded mongoose pups. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 275:1313-1319.
• Gilchrist JS, 2008. Aggressive monopolization of mobile carers by young of a cooperative breeder. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 275:2491-2498.
• Gilchrist JS, Otali E, Mwanghuya F, 2008. Caregivers recognise and bias response towards individual young in a cooperative breeding mammal the banded mongoose. Journal of Zoology 275:41-46.
• Müller CA, Manser MB, 2008a. The information banded mongooses extract from heterospecific alarm calls. Animal Behaviour 75:897-904.
• Müller CA, Manser MB, 2008b. Mutual recognition of pups and providers in the cooperatively breeding banded mongoose. Animal Behaviour 75:1683-1692.
• Müller CA, Manser MB, 2008c. Scent-marking and intrasexual competition in a cooperative carnivore with low reproductive skew. Ethology 114:174-185.
• Hodge SJ, 2007. Counting the costs: the evolution of male-biased care in the cooperative breeding banded mongoose. Animal Behaviour 74:911-919.
• Gilchrist JS, Russell AF, 2007. Who cares? Individual contributions to pup care by breeders vs non-breeders in the cooperatively breeding banded mongoose (Mungos mungo). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 61:1053-1060.
• Müller CA, Manser MB, 2007. 'Nasty neighbours' rather than 'dear enemies' in a social carnivore. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 274:959-965.
• Gilchrist JS, 2006a. Female eviction, abortion, and infanticide in banded mongooses (Mungos mungo): implications for social control of reproduction and synchronized parturition. Behavioral Ecology 17:664-669.
• Gilchrist JS, 2006b. Reproductive success in a low skew, communal breeding mammal: the banded mongoose, Mungos mungo. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 60:854-863.
• Hodge SJ, 2005. Helpers benefit offspring in both the short and long-term in the cooperatively breeding banded mongoose. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 272:2479-2484.
• Gilchrist JS, Otali E, Mwanguhya F, 2004. Why breed communally? Factors affecting fecundity in a communal breeding mammal: the banded mongoose (Mungos mungo). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 57:119-131.
• Otali E, Gilchrist JS, 2004. The effects of refuse feeding on body condition, reproduction, and survival of banded mongooses. Journal of Mammalogy 85:491-497.
• Cant MA, 2003. Patterns of helping effort in co-operatively breeding banded mongooses (Mungos mungo). Journal of Zoology 259:115-121.
• Waldick RC, Johnson P, Pemberton J, 2003. Identification and characterization of 14 polymorphic microsatellite loci for a member of the Herpestidae (Mungos mungo). Molecular Ecology Notes 3:236-238.
• Cant MA, Otali E, Mwanguhya F, 2002. Fighting and mating between groups in a cooperatively breeding mammal, the banded mongoose. Ethology 108:541-555.
• Gilchrist JS, Otali E, 2002. The effects of refuse-feeding on home-range use, group size, and intergroup encounters in the banded mongoose. Canadian Journal of Zoology-Revue Canadienne De Zoologie 80:1795-1802.
• Cant MA, Otali E, Mwanguhya F, 2001. Eviction and dispersal in co-operatively breeding banded mongooses (Mungos mungo). Journal of Zoology 254:155-162.
• Cant MA, 2000. Social control of reproduction in banded mongooses. Animal Behaviour 59:147-158.

Popular articles

• Cant MA, Gilchrist JS. In press. The banded mongoose. In: The Mammals of Africa. Volume 5 (eds. Kingdon T, Butynski). Elsevier Press. London.
• Cant MA. 2008. Make way for team mongoose. BBC Wildlife Magazine August 2008, p44-49
• Cant MA. 2006. Banded mongooses: a life of cooperation and conflict. SWARA: The Journal of the East African Wildlife Society. January 2006

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