Marta B. Manser

The paper decomposes meerkat alarm-calling behaviour into threat discrimination and response escalation to study context-dependent predation risk perception.

This study investigates how dominance and social bonds influence vocal exchanges in meerkats, finding that subordinates respond more intensely to dominant individuals' sunning calls.

The study examines how burrow habitat preferences influence space use in Kalahari meerkats, finding that burrow location strongly anchors movement patterns despite suboptimal foraging conditions.

The paper shows density increases network connectedness in wild animal populations, but effects saturate, with stronger spatial than social impacts.

The paper evaluates machine learning methods for caller identity classification in mammalian vocalizations, finding Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients and random forests provide consistent results across datasets.

This study examines how meerkats' spatial positions during foraging affect weight gain, finding age-related differences and unexpected outcomes for dominant females.