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A Hepatozoon species genetically distinct from H. canis infecting spotted hyenas in the Serengeti ecosystem, Tanzania

scientific article

A note on sex ratios and sex combinations in Serengeti spotted hyaenas: siblicide and sub-binomial variance

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A potentially fatal mix of herpes in zoos

scientific article

An advanced method to assess the diet of free-ranging large carnivores based on scats

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Analysis of Volatile Compounds in Scent-Marks of Spotted Hyenas (Crocuta Crocuta) and their Possible Function in Olfactory Communication

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Analysis of habitat use by and preference of elephants in the Selous-Niassa wildlife corridor, southern Tanzania

scholarly article by Donald Gregory Mpanduji et al published June 2009 in African Journal of Ecology

Androgens and the role of female "hyperaggressiveness" in spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta).

scientific article

Antagonistic pleiotropy and fitness trade-offs reveal specialist and generalist traits in strains of canine distemper virus

scientific article

Are lead-free hunting rifle bullets as effective at killing wildlife as conventional lead bullets? A comparison based on wound size and morphology

scientific article

Behavioral processes and costs of co-existence in female spotted hyenas: a life history perspective

Behavioural Responses of European Roe Deer to Temporal Variation in Predation Risk

article

Benefits and costs of illegal grazing and hunting in the Serengeti ecosystem

Between ecological theory and planning practice: (Re-) Connecting forest patches for the wildcat in Lower Saxony, Germany

article

Between-litter siblicide in captive Indian false vampire bats (Megaderma lyra)

Beyond the landscape: Resistance modelling infers physical and behavioural gene flow barriers to a mobile carnivore across a metropolitan area

scientific article published on 14 January 2020

Biodiversity research: data without theory–theory without data

article by Matthias C. Rillig et al published 5 March 2015 in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Biological Conservation and Stress

Bushmeat hunting by communities adjacent to the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania: the importance of livestock ownership and alternative sources of protein and income

scholarly article by Martin Loibooki et al published September 2002 in Environmental Conservation

Canine distemper virus in the Serengeti ecosystem: molecular adaptation to different carnivore species

scientific article

Canine distemper virus infection in Serengeti spotted hyenas

scientific article

Characterisation and validation of an enzyme-immunoassay for the non-invasive assessment of faecal glucocorticoid metabolites in cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus).

scientific article

Characterization of spotted hyena,Crocuta crocutamicrosatellite loci

scientific article published in 2003

Cheetahs have a stronger constitutive innate immunity than leopards

scientific article published on 23 March 2017

Colonization history shaped the immunity of the western house mouse

scientific article published on 24 July 2015

Communication hubs of an asocial cat are the source of a human-carnivore conflict and key to its solution

scientific article published on 07 December 2020

Concurrent Proteomic Fingerprinting and Molecular Analysis of Cyathostomins

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Cooperation among sunfish: do they have the cognitive abilities?

Cooperative Breeding, Reproductive Suppression, and Body Mass in Canids

Coronavirus genotype diversity and prevalence of infection in wild carnivores in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

scientific article

Coronavirus infection of spotted hyenas in the Serengeti ecosystem

scientific article

Correction: Measuring Faecal Epi-Androsterone as an Indicator of Gonadal Activity in Spotted Hyenas (Crocuta crocuta).

scientific article published on 23 September 2016

Defense of females, but not social status, predicts plasma androgen levels in male spotted hyenas

scientific article

Demography, extinction and intervention in a small population: the case of the Serengeti wild dogs

scientific article published on 01 June 1994

Density and habitat use of the leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) in three commercial forest reserves in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo

article by Azlan Mohamed et al published February 2013 in Journal of Mammalogy

Density of the Vulnerable Sunda clouded leopard Neofelis diardi in two commercial forest reserves in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo

Determining hormone metabolite concentrations when enzyme immunoassay accuracy varies over time

scientific article published in 2015

Digestion studies in captive Hippopotamidae: a group of large ungulates with an unusually low metabolic rate.

scientific article published in August 2006

Divergent Sapovirus Strains and Infection Prevalence in Wild Carnivores in the Serengeti Ecosystem: A Long-Term Study

scientific article

Do Spotted Hyena Scent Marks Code for Clan Membership?

Do anthropogenic sources of food increase livestock predation in the area surrounding Ruaha National Park?

scientific article published in 2022

Does anal gland scent signal identity in the spotted hyaena?

Does lactation lead to resource allocation trade-offs in the spotted hyaena?

scholarly article by Marion L East et al published 13 March 2015 in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Does the Vastness of the Serengeti Limit Human–Wildlife Conflicts?

article published in 2011

Early‐life adversity predicts performance and fitness in a wild social carnivore

scientific article published in 2022

Effect of human induced surface water scarcity on herbivore distribution during the dry season in Ruaha National Park, Tanzania

scientific article published on 31 January 2024

Erratum

scholarly article published in Environmental Conservation

Evidence of high exposure to in free-ranging and captive African carnivores

scientific article published on 24 December 2018

Factors influencing Dipylidium sp. infection in a free-ranging social carnivore, the spotted hyaena (Crocuta crocuta).

scientific article published on 18 September 2013

Feliform carnivores have a distinguished constitutive innate immune response

scientific article (publication date: 15 May 2016)

Female mate-choice drives the evolution of male-biased dispersal in a social mammal.

scientific article published in August 2007

First evidence of hemoplasma infection in free-ranging Namibian cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus).

scientific article published on 16 October 2012

Foraging ecology of Eurasian lynx populations in southwest Asia: Conservation implications for a diet specialist

article

Foxes in the landscape

Functions of birth dens in spotted hyaenas (Crocuta crocuta)

scientific article published in 1989

Gammaretrovirus-specific antibodies in free-ranging and captive Namibian cheetahs

scientific article published on 25 March 2015

Genetic characterization of canine distemper virus in Serengeti carnivores.

scientific article published on October 1998

Höner et al. reply

scientific article published in Nature

Immunogenetic variation and differential pathogen exposure in free-ranging cheetahs across Namibian farmlands

scientific article

Improving density estimates for elusive carnivores: Accounting for sex-specific detection and movements using spatial capture–recapture models for jaguars in central Brazil

article

Intake, ingesta retention, particle size distribution and digestibility in the hippopotamidae

scientific article published in December 2004

Integrating movement ecology with biodiversity research - exploring new avenues to address spatiotemporal biodiversity dynamics.

scientific article

Large mammals in Ruaha National Park, Tanzania, dig for water when water stops flowing and water bacterial load increases

scholarly article by Claudia Stommel et al published January 2016 in Mammalian Biology

Lead exposure and food processing in white-tailed eagles and other scavengers: an experimental approach to simulate lead uptake at shot mammalian carcasses

Locomotion of the coelacanth Latimeria chalumnae in its natural environment

scientific article published in Nature

Loud calling in a female-dominated mammalian society: I. Structure and composition of whooping bouts of spotted hyaenas, Crocuta crocuta

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Loud calling in a female-dominated mammalian society: II. Behavioural contexts and functions of whooping of spotted hyaenas, Crocuta crocuta

Low aggression levels and unbiased sex ratios in a prey-rich environment: no evidence of siblicide in Ngorongoro spotted hyenas ( Crocuta crocuta )

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Male pygmy hippopotamus influence offspring sex ratio

scientific article published on 28 February 2012

Maternal effects on offspring social status in spotted hyenas

scientific article published in 2009

Mating systems, social behaviour and hormones

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Measuring Faecal Epi-Androsterone as an Indicator of Gonadal Activity in Spotted Hyenas (Crocuta crocuta)

scientific article

Mitogenome Phylogeny Including Data from Additional Subspecies Provides New Insights into the Historical Biogeography of the Eurasian lynx Lynx lynx

scientific article published in 2021

Modelling the species distribution of flat-headed cats (Prionailurus planiceps), an endangered South-East Asian small felid

scientific article

Molecular characterization of canine kobuvirus in wild carnivores and the domestic dog in Africa

scientific article published on 7 February 2015

Next-Generation Parasitologists: Structured Training Programs Meet Educational Challenges

scientific article published on 21 April 2017

Noninvasive Fecal Monitoring of Glucocorticoids in Spotted Hyenas,Crocuta crocuta

scholarly article by Wolfgang Goymann et al published June 1999 in General and Comparative Endocrinology

Note on the diet of the jaguar in central Brazil

article

ORCA-SPOT: An Automatic Killer Whale Sound Detection Toolkit Using Deep Learning

scientific article published on 29 July 2019

Parasite infections in a social carnivore: Evidence of their fitness consequences and factors modulating infection load

scientific article published on 11 July 2019

Patterns of resource distribution and exploitation by the red fox (Vulpes vulpes) and the Eurasian badger (Meles meles) ⬇️

doctoral thesis by Heribert Hofer

Planning tiger recovery: Understanding intraspecific variation for effective conservation

scientific article

Polar bear encephalitis: establishment of a comprehensive next-generation pathogen analysis pipeline for captive and free-living wildlife.

scientific article published on 19 December 2013

Population dynamics, intervention and survival in African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus).

scientific article published in November 1995

Population expansion and individual age affect endoparasite richness and diversity in a recolonising large carnivore population

scientific article

Population numbers, density and activity patterns of servals in savannah patches of Odzala-Kokoua National Park, Republic of Congo

scientific article published in 2018

Queuing, takeovers, and becoming a fat cat: Long-term data reveal two distinct male spatial tactics at different life-history stages in Namibian cheetahs

scientific article published in 2018

Recolonizing gray wolves increase parasite infection risk in their prey

scientific article published on 22 January 2018

Regular exposure to rabies virus and lack of symptomatic disease in Serengeti spotted hyenas

scientific article

Reproductive history and absence of predators are important determinants of reproductive fitness: the cheetah controversy revisited

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Robustness of Eco-Epidemiological Capture-Recapture Parameter Estimates to Variation in Infection State Uncertainty

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SPOTTED HYAENA WHOOPS: FREQUENT INCIDENCE OF VOCAL INSTABILITIES IN A MAMMALIAN LOUD CALL

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Secrets of Success in a Landscape of Fear: Urban Wild Boar Adjust Risk Perception and Tolerate Disturbance

article by Milena Stillfried et al published 6 December 2017 in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Seroprevalences to viral pathogens in free-ranging and captive cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) on Namibian Farmland

scientific article

Severe Streptococcus infection in spotted hyenas in the Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania

scientific article published on 7 February 2006

Sex-Biased Senescence in a Polygynous Bat Species

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Sexual conflicts in spotted hyenas: male and female mating tactics and their reproductive outcome with respect to age, social status and tenure

scientific article published in June 2003

Siblicide in Serengeti spotted hyenas: a long-term study of maternal input and cub survival

scientific article published in 2007

Sibling competition and hunger increase allostatic load in spotted hyaenas

scientific article published on 24 April 2013

Sibling rivalry: training effects, emergence of dominance and incomplete control

scientific article published on 20 June 2012

Sit-and-wait for large prey: foraging strategy and prey choice of White-tailed Eagles

article by Mirjam Nadjafzadeh et al published 21 July 2015 in Journal of Ornithology

Skewed offspring sex ratios and sex composition of twin litters in Serengeti spotted hyaenas (Crocuta crocuta) are a consequence of siblicide

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Slow recovery from a disease epidemic in the spotted hyena, a keystone social carnivore

scientific article published on 20 November 2018

Social environments, social tactics and their fitness consequences in complex mammalian societies

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Social status does not predict corticosteroid levels in postdispersal male spotted hyenas

scientific article published on 01 April 2003

Social status mediates the fitness costs of infection with canine distemper virus in Serengeti spotted hyenas

scientific article published on 06 March 2018

Social, state-dependent and environmental modulation of faecal corticosteroid levels in free-ranging female spotted hyenas

scientific article published in December 2001

Sperm sex chromosome fluorescence in situ hybridisation in pygmy hippopotamus

Stress Hormones and Radiocollaring of African Wild Dogs

Superconception in mammalian pregnancy can be detected and increases reproductive output per breeding season

scientific article

Surrogate hosts: Hunting dogs and recolonizing grey wolves share their endoparasites

scientific article published on 7 September 2017

The Effect of Reduced Water Availability in the Great Ruaha River on the Vulnerable Common Hippopotamus in the Ruaha National Park, Tanzania

scientific article

The Intestinal Eukaryotic and Bacterial Biome of Spotted Hyenas: The Impact of Social Status and Age on Diversity and Composition

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The catastrophic decline of the Sumatran rhino ( Dicerorhinus sumatrensis harrissoni ) in Sabah: Historic exploitation, reduced female reproductive performance and population viability

The commuting system of Serengeti spotted hyaenas: how a predator copes with migratory prey. I. Social organization

scholarly article by Heribert Hofer & Marion L East published September 1993 in Animal Behaviour

The commuting system of Serengeti spotted hyaenas: how a predator copes with migratory prey. II. Intrusion pressure and commuters' space use

scholarly article by Heribert Hofer & Marion L East published September 1993 in Animal Behaviour

The commuting system of Serengeti spotted hyaenas: how a predator copes with migratory prey. III. Attendance and maternal care

scholarly article by Heribert Hofer & Marion L East published September 1993 in Animal Behaviour

The effect of prey abundance and foraging tactics on the population dynamics of a social, territorial carnivore, the spotted hyena

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The erect ‘penis’ is a flag of submission in a female-dominated society: greetings in Serengeti spotted hyenas

December 1993 scholarly article in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

The fitness of dispersing spotted hyaena sons is influenced by maternal social status.

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The impact of a pathogenic bacterium on a social carnivore population

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The impact of game meat hunting on target and non-target species in the Serengeti

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The importance of correcting for sampling bias in MaxEnt species distribution models

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The link between feeding ecology and lead poisoning in white-tailed eagles

scholarly article by Mirjam Nadjafzadeh et al published 27 September 2012 in Journal of Wildlife Management

The peniform clitoris of female spotted hyaenas

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The response of spotted hyaenas to long-term changes in prey populations: functional response and interspecific kleptoparasitism

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The virus-host interface: Molecular interactions of Alphacoronavirus-1 variants from wild and domestic hosts with mammalian aminopeptidase N

scientific article published on 03 May 2021

Trade-offs in lactation and milk intake by competing siblings in a fluctuating environment

article by Heribert Hofer et al published 2016 in Behavioral Ecology

Unexpected Gene-Flow in Urban Environments: The Example of the European Hedgehog

scientific article published on 07 December 2020

Urban Hedgehog Behavioural Responses to Temporary Habitat Disturbance versus Permanent Fragmentation

scientific article published on 13 November 2020

Using occupancy models to investigate space partitioning between two sympatric large predators, the jaguar and puma in central Brazil

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Validation of a minimally invasive blood-sampling technique for the analysis of hormones in domestic rabbits, Oryctolagus cuniculus (Lagomorpha).

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Validation of an enzyme immunoassay for the measurement of faecal glucocorticoid metabolites in spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta).

scientific article

What limits the Serengeti zebra population?

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Why do some males choose to breed at home when most other males disperse?

scientific article published on 18 March 2016

Wild dogs in the Serengeti ecosystem: what really happened

scientific article published on 01 December 1996

Within-litter sibling aggression in spotted hyaenas: effect of maternal nursing, sex and age.

scientific article

‘Keeping the kids at home’ can limit the persistence of contagious pathogens in social animals

scientific article published on 14 April 2020

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