Sarah Hodge Publications

• 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
• 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.
• 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
• 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
• Nichols, H.J., Amos, W.A., Bell, M.B.V., Cant, M.A. & Hodge, S.J. 2010. Top males gain high reproductive success by guarding more successful females in a cooperative mongoose. Animal Behaviour
• Hodge, S.J. (2009) Understanding variation in reproductive skew: directions for future empirical research. In “Reproductive skew in vertebrates; proximate and ultimate causes (eds. R. Hager & C. Jones). Cambridge University Press. P. 439-466
• Hodge, S.J., Thornton, A., Flower, T.P. & Clutton-Brock, T.H. (2009) Food limitation and offspring aggression in wild meerkats. 20, 930-935. Behavioral Ecology.
• 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
• Thornton A. & Hodge, S.J. (2009) The development of foraging microhabitat preferences in meerkats. Behavoural ecology. 20, 103-110.
• Clutton-Brock, T.H., Hodge, S.J. & Flower, T.P. (2008) Group size and subordinate reproduction in Kalahari meerkats. Animal Behaviour. 76, 689-700.
• Spong, G., Hodge, S.J., Young, A.J. & Clutton-Brock, T.H. (2008) Distribution of paternity and determinants of reproductive success in dominant male meerkats, Suricata suricatta. Molecular Ecology. 17, 2287-2299.
• Hodge, S.J., Manica, A., Flower, T.P. & Clutton-Brock, T.H. (2008) Determinants of reproductive success in dominant female meerkats. Journal of Animal Ecology. 77, 92-102.
• Hodge, S.J., Flower, T.P., Clutton-Brock, T.H. (2007) Offspring competition and helper associations in a cooperative meerkats. Animal Behaviour.74, 957-964.
• Hodge, S.J. (2007) Counting the costs: the evolution of male-biased care in the cooperative breeding banded mongoose. Animal Behaviour. 74, 91-919.
• Clutton-Brock, T.H., Hodge, S.J., Spong, G., Russell, A.F., Jordan, N.R., Bennett, N.C., Sharpe, L.L., Manser, M.B. (2006). Intrasexual competition and sexual selection in cooperative mammals. Nature. 444, 1065-1068.
• Hodge, S.J. (2005) Helpers benefit offspring in both the short and long-term in the cooperatively breeding banded mongoose (Mungos mungo). Proc Roy Soc Lond B. 272, 2479-2484.

Popular science articles

• Cant, M.A. 2008. Make way for team mongoose. BBC Wildlife Magazine August 2008, p44-49.
• Cant, M.A. 2007. Banded mongooses: a life of cooperation and conflict. SWARA Magazine. January 2007.

Downloads

• Species Profile
• BBC Wildlife Magazine feature on Banded Mongooses