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List of works by Marta B. Manser

'Nasty neighbours' rather than 'dear enemies' in a social carnivore

scientific article published in April 2007

A non-invasive method for sampling the body odour of mammals

scientific article published in 2017

A simple test of vocal individual recognition in wild meerkats

scientific article

Acoustic sequences in non-human animals: a tutorial review and prospectus

scientific article

Adult meerkats modify close call rate in the presence of pups

scientific article published on 10 May 2017

Begging signals in a mobile feeding system: the evolution of different call types

scientific article published on 28 August 2007

Beyond aggression: Androgen-receptor blockade modulates social interaction in wild meerkats

scientific article

Bound for Specific Sounds: Vocal Predisposition in Animal Communication

scientific article published on 25 June 2020

Caching in the presence of competitors: Are Cape ground squirrels (Xerus inauris) sensitive to audience attentiveness?

scientific article published on 5 August 2015

Call order within vocal sequences of meerkats contains temporary contextual and individual information

scientific article published on 09 September 2020

Calling in the gap: competition or cooperation in littermates' begging behaviour?

scientific article published on 6 January 2009

Cooperation, control, and concession in meerkat groups

scientific article (publication date: 19 January 2001)

Cortisol levels are positively associated with pup-feeding rates in male meerkats

scientific article published on 01 March 2006

Cost of dispersal in a social mammal: body mass loss and increased stress

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Costs of cooperative behaviour in suricates (Suricata suricatta)

scientific article (publication date: 7 February 1998)

Deceptive-like behaviour in dogs (Canis familiaris).

scientific article published in March 2017

Discrete call types referring to predation risk enhance the efficiency of the meerkat sentinel system

scientific article

Diurnal oscillations in gut bacterial load and composition eclipse seasonal and lifetime dynamics in wild meerkats

scientific article published in 2021

Do meerkat (Suricata suricatta) pups exhibit strategic begging behaviour and so exploit adults that feed at relatively high rates?

scientific article published in 2009

Dogs' (Canis familiaris) attention to human perception: Influence of breed groups and life experiences.

scientific article published on 12 January 2017

Dwarf mongoose alarm calls: investigating a complex non-human animal call

scientific article published on 23 September 2020

Effect of group size and experience on the ontogeny of sentinel calling behaviour in meerkats

scientific article published in 2021

Exorcising Grice's ghost: an empirical approach to studying intentional communication in animals

scientific article published on 2 August 2016

Experience of the signaller explains the use of social versus personal information in the context of sentinel behaviour in meerkats

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Female-biased dispersal in the solitarily foraging slender mongoose, Galerella sanguinea, in the Kalahari

scientific article (publication date: 2016)

Group cohesion in foraging meerkats: follow the moving 'vocal hot spot'.

scientific article

Individual contributions to babysitting in a cooperative mongoose, Suricata suricatta.

scientific article published in February 2000

Intergroup aggression in meerkats

scientific article published on 18 December 2019

Internal acoustic structuring in pied babbler recruitment cries specifies the form of recruitment

scientific article published in 2018

Language evolution: syntax before phonology?

scientific article

Location and group size influence decisions in simulated intergroup encounters in banded mongooses

article published in 2011

Long-term movements and home-range changes: Rapid territory shifts in meerkats

scientific article published on 17 December 2019

Mean fecal glucocorticoid metabolites are associated with vigilance, whereas immediate cortisol levels better reflect acute anti-predator responses in meerkats

scientific article published on 8 September 2014

Meerkat close calling patterns are linked to sex, social category, season and wind, but not fecal glucocorticoid metabolite concentrations

scientific article

Meerkats (Suricata suricatta), a new definitive host of the canid nematode Angiostrongylus vasorum

scientific article published on 21 October 2017

Motivation before meaning: motivational information encoded in meerkat alarm calls develops earlier than referential information

scientific article published on 4 April 2007

Moving calls: a vocal mechanism underlying quorum decisions in cohesive groups.

scientific article

Nonlinearities in Meerkat Alarm Calls Prevent Receivers from Habituating

scientific article

Odour-based kin discrimination in the cooperatively breeding meerkat

scientific article

Ontogenetic changes in alarm-call production and usage in meerkats (Suricata suricatta): adaptations or constraints?

scientific article published in 2007

Ontogeny of alarm call responses in meerkats, Suricata suricatta: the roles of age, sex and nearby conspecifics

Persistence of Alarm-Call Behaviour in the Absence of Predators: A Comparison Between Wild and Captive-Born Meerkats (Suricata Suricatta)

scientific article

Response of foraging group members to sentinel calls in suricates, Suricata suricatta

scientific article published in 1999

Scent marking in wild banded mongooses: 1. Sex-specific scents and overmarking

Segmental concatenation of individual signatures and context cues in banded mongoose (Mungos mungo) close calls

scientific article

Selfish sentinels in cooperative mammals

scientific article

Sex-independent senescence in a cooperatively breeding mammal

scientific article published on 06 February 2020

Signalling adjustments to direct and indirect environmental effects on signal perception in meerkats

scientific article published on 27 August 2020

Signals of need in a cooperatively breeding mammal with mobile offspring

Social monitoring via close calls in meerkats

scientific article

Social organization of a solitary carnivore: spatial behaviour, interactions and relatedness in the slender mongoose.

scientific article

Suricate alarm calls signal predator class and urgency

scientific article published on 01 February 2002

Territoriality and home-range dynamics in meerkats, Suricata suricatta: a mechanistic modelling approach

scientific article

The acoustic structure of suricates' alarm calls varies with predator type and the level of response urgency

scientific article published on 01 November 2001

The audience effect in a facultatively social mammal, the yellow mongoose, Cynictis penicillata

article by Aliza le Roux et al published March 2008 in Animal Behaviour

The effects of population density and sociality on scent marking in the yellow mongoose

article by A. Le Roux et al published May 2008 in Journal of Zoology

The evolution of urgency-based and functionally referential alarm calls in ground-dwelling species

article

The function of nonlinear phenomena in meerkat alarm calls

scientific article

The influence of stress hormones and aggression on cooperative behaviour in subordinate meerkats.

scientific article

The information that receivers extract from alarm calls in suricates

scientific article published in 2001

The irrelevance of individual discrimination in meerkat alarm calls

The vocal repertoire in a solitary foraging carnivore, Cynictis penicillata, may reflect facultative sociality

scientific article published on 27 February 2009

Use of the sun as a heading indicator when caching and recovering in a wild rodent

scientific article (publication date: September 2016)

Validation of a Fecal Glucocorticoid Assay to Assess Adrenocortical Activity in Meerkats Using Physiological and Biological Stimuli

scientific article

Vigilance behaviour and fitness consequences: comparing a solitary foraging and an obligate group-foraging mammal

scientific article published in 2009

Vocal Complexity in Meerkats and Other Mongoose Species

article

Vocal Turn-Taking in Meerkat Group Calling Sessions

scientific article published on 08 November 2018

Vocalize to localize: A test on functionally referential alarm calls

Wild dwarf mongooses produce general alert and predator-specific alarm calls

scientific article published in 2017

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