List of works - Craig Packer

A generalized approach for producing, quantifying, and validating citizen science data from wildlife images

scientific article

A pan-African spatial assessment of human conflicts with lions and elephants

scientific article published in 2021

A sideways look at conservation and consistency in tourism policy

scientific article

Adaptations of Female Lions to Infanticide by Incoming Males

scientific article (publication date: May 1983)

Applying a random encounter model to estimate lion density from camera traps in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

scientific article

Asynchronous food-web pathways could buffer the response of Serengeti predators to El Niño Southern Oscillation

scientific article

Automatically identifying, counting, and describing wild animals in camera-trap images with deep learning.

scientific article

Baboon fertility and social status

Bayesian estimates of male and female African lion mortality for future use in population management

article

Can citizen science analysis of camera trap data be used to study reproduction? Lessons from Snapshot Serengeti program

scientific article published in 2021

Cheetahs and wild dogs show contrasting patterns of suppression by lions

scientific article published on 13 May 2014

Chemical characterization of milk oligosaccharides of an African lion (Panthera leo) and a clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa).

scientific article published on 7 October 2010

Chronic infections can shape epidemic exposure: Pathogen co-occurrence networks in the Serengeti lions

scientific article published on 17 July 2018

Citizen science, computing, and conservation: How can “Crowd AI” change the way we tackle large-scale ecological challenges?

scientific article published in 2021

Climate extremes promote fatal co-infections during canine distemper epidemics in African lions.

scientific article

Conservation biology: lion attacks on humans in Tanzania

scientific article

Cooperation and competition within coalitions of male lions: kin selection or game theory?

scientific article published in Nature

Cooperation in male lions: kinship, reciprocity or mutualism?

scientific article published on 18 December 2003

Cross-species transmission and evolutionary dynamics of canine distemper virus during a spillover in African lions of Serengeti National Park

scientific article published on 18 April 2020

Dead or gone? Bayesian inference on mortality for the dispersing sex

scientific article published on 21 June 2016

Detection of foot-and-mouth disease virus infected cattle using infrared thermography.

scientific article

Differentiated payments for ecosystem services based on estimated prey consumption by lions within communal conservancies in northwest Namibia

scientific article published in 2022

Disease transmission in territorial populations: the small-world network of Serengeti lions

scientific article

Distinguishing epidemic waves from disease spillover in a wildlife population

scientific article published on 25 February 2009

Do acoustic features of lion, Panthera leo, roars reflect sex and male condition?

scientific article

Does pregnancy coloration reduce female conspecific aggression in the presence of maternal kin?

scientific article

Dynamics of a morbillivirus at the domestic-wildlife interface: Canine distemper virus in domestic dogs and lions

scientific article

Ecological change, group territoriality, and population dynamics in Serengeti lions

scientific article

Endemic infection can shape exposure to novel pathogens: Pathogen co-occurrence networks in the Serengeti lions

scientific article published on 12 March 2019

Erratum: A canine distemper virus epidemic in Serengeti lions (Panthera leo)

scientific article published in Nature

Erratum: A canine distemper virus epidemic in Serengeti lions (Panthera leo)

scholarly article published in Nature

Estimating wildlife disease dynamics in complex systems using an Approximate Bayesian Computation framework

scientific article

Evaluating empirical contact networks as potential transmission pathways for infectious diseases.

scientific article published on August 2016

Evaluating relative abundance indices for terrestrial herbivores from large-scale camera trap surveys

scientific article published on 29 November 2018

FIV diversity: FIV Ple subtype composition may influence disease outcome in African lions

scientific article

Fear of darkness, the full moon and the nocturnal ecology of African lions

scientific article published in 2011

Future threats to biodiversity and pathways to their prevention

scientific article

Genetic rescue of an isolated African lion population

scientific article

Genetics. A bit of Texas in Florida

scientific article

Giraffe bed and breakfast: Camera traps reveal Tanzanian yellow-billed oxpeckers roosting on their large mammalian hosts

scientific article published on 16 February 2018

Group density, disease, and season shape territory size and overlap of social carnivores

scientific article published on 12 July 2020

Group formation stabilizes predator-prey dynamics

scientific article published in October 2007

How to make more from exposure data? An integrated machine learning pipeline to predict pathogen exposure

scientific article published on 19 August 2019

Identifying Candidate Genetic Markers of CDV Cross-Species Pathogenicity in African Lions

scientific article published on 23 October 2020

In the absence of a "landscape of fear": How lions, hyenas, and cheetahs coexist

scientific article

Inbreeding depression increases susceptibility to bovine tuberculosis in lions: an experimental test using an inbred-outbred contrast through translocation

scientific article published in July 2011

Interplay of competition and facilitation in grazing succession by migrant Serengeti herbivores

Linking social and spatial networks to viral community phylogenetics reveal subtype specific transmission dynamics in African lions.

scientific article published on 8 September 2017

Lion (Panthera leo) populations are declining rapidly across Africa, except in intensively managed areas

scientific article

Lion population dynamics: do nomadic males matter?

article

Lions

scientific article published in July 2010

Mapping out a future for ungulate migrations

scientific article

Mixed-species groups of Serengeti grazers: a test of the stress gradient hypothesis

scientific article published on 16 August 2020

Modeling the effects of trophy selection and environmental disturbance on a simulated population of African lions

scientific article

Nonlinear effects of group size on the success of wolves hunting elk

scientific article published in 2011

Novel smacoviruses identified in the faeces of two wild felids: North American bobcat and African lion

scientific article published on 22 June 2019

Patterns in age-seroprevalence consistent with acquired immunity against Trypanosoma brucei in Serengeti lions.

scientific article

Patterns of feline immunodeficiency virus multiple infection and genome divergence in a free-ranging population of African lions

scientific article published on April 2004

Persistence and local extinction of lion prides in the Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania

scholarly article by Bernard M. Kissui et al published 2 September 2009 in Population Ecology

Predatory senescence in ageing wolves

scientific article published on 23 September 2009

Predictability of anthrax infection in the Serengeti, Tanzania

scientific article

QUANTIFYING THE SEVERITY OF GIRAFFE SKIN DISEASE VIA PHOTOGRAMMETRY ANALYSIS OF CAMERA TRAP DATA

scientific article published on 22 April 2019

Reactive anti-predator behavioral strategy shaped by predator characteristics

scientific article published on 18 August 2021

Reconciling corruption with conservation triage: Should investments shift from the last best places?

scientific article published on 31 August 2018

Reply to Riggio et al.: Ongoing lion declines across most of Africa warrant urgent action.

scientific article published on 30 December 2015

Resource management cycles and the sustainability of harvested wildlife populations

scientific article published on 01 May 2010

Roaring and numerical assessment in contests between groups of female lions, Panthera leo

scientific article (publication date: February 1994)

Serengeti real estate: density vs. fitness-based indicators of lion habitat quality

scientific article

Serologic surveillance of anthrax in the Serengeti ecosystem, Tanzania, 1996-2009

scientific article (publication date: March 2011)

Sexual selection, temperature, and the lion's mane

scientific article

Should co-operative groups be more vigilant than selfish groups?

scientific article published in 1990

Snapshot Safari: a large-scale collaborative to monitor Africa’s remarkable biodiversity

scientific article published on 29 January 2021

Snapshot Serengeti, high-frequency annotated camera trap images of 40 mammalian species in an African savanna

scientific article published on 9 June 2015

Species‐specific spatiotemporal patterns of leopard, lion and tiger attacks on humans

scientific article published in 2019

Sport hunting, predator control and conservation of large carnivores

scientific article (publication date: 2009)

Stabilizing effects of group formation by Serengeti herbivores on predator-prey dynamics

scientific article published in 2022

Sustainable trophy hunting of African lions

scientific article

The Evolution of Cooperative Hunting

article published in 1988

The Multiple Roles of Infectious Diseases in the Serengeti Ecosystem

The aging baboon: comparative demography in a non-human primate.

scientific article

The conservation relevance of epidemiological research into carnivore viral diseases in the serengeti

scientific article published on June 2007

The diversity of population responses to environmental change.

scientific article

The evolutionary dynamics of the lion Panthera leo revealed by host and viral population genomics

scientific article

The impact of burning on lion Panthera leo habitat choice in an African savanna

scientific article published on 25 February 2016

The long lives of primates and the 'invariant rate of ageing' hypothesis

scientific article

The spatial distribution of African savannah herbivores: species associations and habitat occupancy in a landscape context

scientific article published on September 2016

Top-down population regulation of a top predator: lions in the Ngorongoro Crater.

scientific article

Transmission dynamics and prospects for the elimination of canine rabies

scientific article

Transmission ecology of canine parvovirus in a multi-host, multi-pathogen system

article

Using landscape characteristics to predict risk of lion attacks on humans in south-eastern Tanzania

scholarly article by Hadas Kushnir et al published 5 July 2014 in African Journal of Ecology

What limits the Serengeti zebra population?

scientific article

List of works by Craig Packer

A generalized approach for producing, quantifying, and validating citizen science data from wildlife images

A pan-African spatial assessment of human conflicts with lions and elephants

A sideways look at conservation and consistency in tourism policy

Adaptations of Female Lions to Infanticide by Incoming Males

Applying a random encounter model to estimate lion density from camera traps in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

Asynchronous food-web pathways could buffer the response of Serengeti predators to El Niño Southern Oscillation

Automatically identifying, counting, and describing wild animals in camera-trap images with deep learning.

Baboon fertility and social status

Bayesian estimates of male and female African lion mortality for future use in population management

Can citizen science analysis of camera trap data be used to study reproduction? Lessons from Snapshot Serengeti program

Cheetahs and wild dogs show contrasting patterns of suppression by lions

Chemical characterization of milk oligosaccharides of an African lion (Panthera leo) and a clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa).

Chronic infections can shape epidemic exposure: Pathogen co-occurrence networks in the Serengeti lions

Citizen science, computing, and conservation: How can “Crowd AI” change the way we tackle large-scale ecological challenges?

Climate extremes promote fatal co-infections during canine distemper epidemics in African lions.

Conservation biology: lion attacks on humans in Tanzania

Cooperation and competition within coalitions of male lions: kin selection or game theory?

Cooperation in male lions: kinship, reciprocity or mutualism?

Cross-species transmission and evolutionary dynamics of canine distemper virus during a spillover in African lions of Serengeti National Park

Dead or gone? Bayesian inference on mortality for the dispersing sex

Detection of foot-and-mouth disease virus infected cattle using infrared thermography.

Differentiated payments for ecosystem services based on estimated prey consumption by lions within communal conservancies in northwest Namibia

Disease transmission in territorial populations: the small-world network of Serengeti lions

Distinguishing epidemic waves from disease spillover in a wildlife population

Do acoustic features of lion, Panthera leo, roars reflect sex and male condition?

Does pregnancy coloration reduce female conspecific aggression in the presence of maternal kin?

Dynamics of a morbillivirus at the domestic-wildlife interface: Canine distemper virus in domestic dogs and lions

Ecological change, group territoriality, and population dynamics in Serengeti lions

Endemic infection can shape exposure to novel pathogens: Pathogen co-occurrence networks in the Serengeti lions

Erratum: A canine distemper virus epidemic in Serengeti lions (Panthera leo)

Erratum: A canine distemper virus epidemic in Serengeti lions (Panthera leo)

Estimating wildlife disease dynamics in complex systems using an Approximate Bayesian Computation framework

Evaluating empirical contact networks as potential transmission pathways for infectious diseases.

Evaluating relative abundance indices for terrestrial herbivores from large-scale camera trap surveys

FIV diversity: FIV Ple subtype composition may influence disease outcome in African lions

Fear of darkness, the full moon and the nocturnal ecology of African lions

Future threats to biodiversity and pathways to their prevention

Genetic rescue of an isolated African lion population

Genetics. A bit of Texas in Florida

Giraffe bed and breakfast: Camera traps reveal Tanzanian yellow-billed oxpeckers roosting on their large mammalian hosts

Group density, disease, and season shape territory size and overlap of social carnivores

Group formation stabilizes predator-prey dynamics

How to make more from exposure data? An integrated machine learning pipeline to predict pathogen exposure

Identifying Candidate Genetic Markers of CDV Cross-Species Pathogenicity in African Lions

In the absence of a "landscape of fear": How lions, hyenas, and cheetahs coexist

Inbreeding depression increases susceptibility to bovine tuberculosis in lions: an experimental test using an inbred-outbred contrast through translocation

Interplay of competition and facilitation in grazing succession by migrant Serengeti herbivores

Linking social and spatial networks to viral community phylogenetics reveal subtype specific transmission dynamics in African lions.

Lion (Panthera leo) populations are declining rapidly across Africa, except in intensively managed areas

Lion population dynamics: do nomadic males matter?

Lions

Mapping out a future for ungulate migrations

Mixed-species groups of Serengeti grazers: a test of the stress gradient hypothesis

Modeling the effects of trophy selection and environmental disturbance on a simulated population of African lions

Nonlinear effects of group size on the success of wolves hunting elk

Novel smacoviruses identified in the faeces of two wild felids: North American bobcat and African lion

Patterns in age-seroprevalence consistent with acquired immunity against Trypanosoma brucei in Serengeti lions.

Patterns of feline immunodeficiency virus multiple infection and genome divergence in a free-ranging population of African lions

Persistence and local extinction of lion prides in the Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania

Predatory senescence in ageing wolves

Predictability of anthrax infection in the Serengeti, Tanzania

QUANTIFYING THE SEVERITY OF GIRAFFE SKIN DISEASE VIA PHOTOGRAMMETRY ANALYSIS OF CAMERA TRAP DATA

Reactive anti-predator behavioral strategy shaped by predator characteristics

Reconciling corruption with conservation triage: Should investments shift from the last best places?

Reply to Riggio et al.: Ongoing lion declines across most of Africa warrant urgent action.

Resource management cycles and the sustainability of harvested wildlife populations

Roaring and numerical assessment in contests between groups of female lions, Panthera leo

Serengeti real estate: density vs. fitness-based indicators of lion habitat quality

Serologic surveillance of anthrax in the Serengeti ecosystem, Tanzania, 1996-2009

Sexual selection, temperature, and the lion's mane

Should co-operative groups be more vigilant than selfish groups?

Snapshot Safari: a large-scale collaborative to monitor Africa’s remarkable biodiversity

Snapshot Serengeti, high-frequency annotated camera trap images of 40 mammalian species in an African savanna

Species‐specific spatiotemporal patterns of leopard, lion and tiger attacks on humans

Sport hunting, predator control and conservation of large carnivores

Stabilizing effects of group formation by Serengeti herbivores on predator-prey dynamics

Sustainable trophy hunting of African lions

The Evolution of Cooperative Hunting

The Multiple Roles of Infectious Diseases in the Serengeti Ecosystem