Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
Department of Zoology and Entomology
The ecology, ethology, physiology and evolution of African animals; Behavioural, physiological and evolutionary ecology; and Antarctic biology - Research Output
Research articles in refereed specialist journals:
Mann BQ, Lieberman V, Köhler A, Korine C, Hedworth H, Voigt-Heucke SL: 2011. Finding your friends at densely populated roosting places: male Egyptian fruit bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus) distinguish between familiar and unfamiliar conspecifics. Acta Chiropterologica, 13 (2), pp 411-417.
Saag P, Mänd R, Tilgar V, Kilgas P, Mägi M, Rasmann E: 2011. Plumage bacterial load is related to species, sex, biometrics and fledging success in co-occurring cavity-beeding passerines. Acta Ornithologica, 46 (2), pp 191-201.
Storm JJ, Boyles JG: 2011. Body temperature and body mass of hibernating little brown batsMyotis lucifugus in hibernacula affected by white-nose syndrome. Acta Theriologica, 56, pp 123-127, Full Text
Lewis nee (Honiball) AS, Dippenaar-Schoeman AS: 2011. A revision of the spider genus Sylligma in the Afrotropical Region (Araneae, Thomsidae). African Entomology, 19 (1), pp 119-132, Full Text
Holm E, Perissinotto R: 2011. New descriptions and revisions of southern African Cetoniinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). I. African Entomology, 19 (1), pp 88-95, Full Text
Reisinger R, de Bruyn PJN, Tosh C, Oosthuizen WC, Mufanadzo NT, Bester MN: 2011. Prey and seasonal abundance of killer whales at sub-Antarctic Marion Island. African Journal of Marine Science, 33 (1), pp 99-105, Full Text
Penry GS, Penry GS, Cockcroft VG, Hammond PS: 2011. Seasonal fluctuations in occurrence of inshore Bryde's whales in Plettenberg Bay, South Africa, with notes on feeding events and multi-species associations. African Journal of Marine Science, 33 (3), pp 403-414.
Pistorius PA, de Bruyn PJN, Bester MN: 2011. Population dynamics of southern elephant seals: a synthesis of three decades of demographic research at Marion Island. African Journal of Marine Science, 33 (3), pp 523-534, Full Text
Photopoulou T, Best PB, Hammond PS, Findlay KP: 2011. Movement patterns of coastal bottlenose dolphins in the presence of a fast-flowing, prevailing current: shore-based observations at Cape Vidal, South Africa. African Journal of Marine Science, 33 (3), pp 393-401.
Findlay KP, Best PB, Meÿer M: 2011. Migrations of humpback whales past Cape Vidal, South Africa, and an estimate of the population increase rate (1988-2002). African Journal of Marine Science, 33 (3), pp 375-392.
Barendse J, Best PB, Thornton M, Elwen SH, Rosenbaum HC, Carvalho I, Pomilla C, Collins TJQ, Meÿer M, Leeney RH: 2011. Transit station or destination? Attendance patterns, movements, and abundance estimate of humpback whales off west South Africa from photographic and genotypic matching. African Journal of Marine Science, 33 (3), pp 353-373, Full Text
Bester MN, de Bruyn PJN, Oosthuizen WC, Tosh C, McIntyre T, Reisinger R, Postma M, van der Merwe DS, Wege M: 2011. The Marine Mammal Programme at the Prince Edward Islands: 38 years of research. African Journal of Marine Science, 33 (3), pp 511-521, Full Text
Hofmeyr-Juritz L, Best PB: 2011. Acoustic behaviour of southern right whales in relation to numbers of whales present in Walker Bay, South Africa. African Journal of Marine Science, 33 (3), pp 415-427, Full Text
Elwen SH, Thornton M, Kirkman SP, Pistorius PA, Weir C: 2011. The first African Marine Mammal Colloquium, South Africa, May 2010. African Journal of Marine Science, 33 (3), pp 349-351, Full Text
Elwen SH, Findlay KP, Kiszka J, Weir A: 2011. Cetacean research in the southern African subregion: a review of previous studies and current knowledge. African Journal of Marine Science, 33 (3), pp 469-493, Full Text
Zanre R, Bester MN: 2011. Vagrant Subantarctic fur seal in the Mayumba National Park, Gabon. African Zoology, 46 (1), pp 185-187, Full Text
Sichilima AM, Bennett NC, Faulkes CG: 2011. Field evidence for colony size and aseasonality of breeding in Ansell's mole-rat,Fukomys anselli (Rodentia: Bathyergidae). African Zoology, 46 (2), pp 334-339, Full Text
De Vries JL, Pirk CWW, Bateman PW, Cameron EZ, Dalerum FD: 2011. Extension of the diet of an extreme foraging specialist, the aardwolf (Proteles cristata). African Zoology, 46 (1), pp 194-196, Full Text
Postma M, Wege M, Bester MN, van der Merwe DS, de Bruyn PJN: 2011. Inshore occurrence of southern right whales (Eubalaena australis) at Subantarctic Marion Island. African Zoology, 46 (1), pp 188-193, Full Text
Nicolson SW: 2011. Bee food; the chemistry and nutritional value of nectar, pollen and mixtures of the two. African Zoology, 46 (2), pp 197-204, Full Text
Le Grange A, van der Merwe M, Bester MN: 2011. Reproductive strategy of the Egyptian free-tailed bat,Tadarida aegyptiaca, from a subtropical latitude (25o) in South Africa. African Zoology, 46 (1), pp 169-175, Full Text
Verburgt L, Ferreira M, Ferguson JWH: 2011. Male field cricket song reflects age, allowing females to prefer young males. Animal Behaviour, 81, pp 19-29, Full Text
de Bruyn PJN, Tosh C, Bester MN, Cameron EZ, McIntyre T, Wilkinson IS: 2011. Sex at sea: alternative mating system in an extremely polygynous mammal. Animal Behaviour, 82, pp 445-451, Full Text
Oosthuizen WC, Bester MN, Tosh C, Guinet C, Besson D, de Bruyn PJN: 2011. Dispersal and dispersion of southern elephant seals in the Kerguelen province, Southern Ocean. Antarctic Science, 23 (6), pp 567-577, Full Text
Grobler G, Bastos AD, Chimimba CT, Chimimba CT, Chown SL: 2011. Inter-island dispersal of flightlessBothrometropus huntleyi (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from the sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Island archipelago. Antarctic Science, 23 (3), pp 225-234, Full Text
Grobler G, Bastos AD, Treasure AM, Chown SL: 2011. Cryptic species, biogeographic complexity and the evolutionary history of theEctemnorhinus group in the sub-Antarctic, including a description ofBothrometropus huntleyi, n. sp.. Antarctic Science, 23 (3), pp 211-224, Full Text
Reisinger R, de Bruyn PJN, Bester MN: 2011. Abundance estimates of killer whales at subantarctic Marion Island. Aquatic Biology, 12, pp 177-185.
Leeney RH, Carslake D, Elwen SH: 2011. Using static acoustic monitoring to describe echolocation behaviour of Heaviside's dolphins (Cephalorhynchus heavisidii) in Namibia. Aquatic Mammals, 37 (2), pp 151-160, Full Text
Strumpher WP, Scholtz CH: 2011. New species of Trogidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) from Australia. Australian Journal of Entomology, 50, pp 139-143.
Bryant G, Bateman PW, Fleming PA: 2011. Tantalising tongues: male carpet pythons (Morelia spilota) use chemosensory information to differentiate among females. Australian Journal of Zoology, 59, pp 1-7.
Bateman PW, Fleming PA: 2011. Failure to launch? The influence of limb autotomy on the escape behavior of a semi-aquatic grasshopperParoxya atlantica (Acrididae). Behavioral Ecology, 22, pp 763-768.
Bateman PW, Fleming PA: 2011. Frequency of tail loss reflects variation in predation levels, predator efficiency, and the behaviour of three populations of brown anoles. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 103, pp 648-656.
Kamath PL, Getz WM: 2011. Adaptive molecular evolution of the Major Histocompatibility Complex genes, DRA and DQA, in the genusEquus. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 11, p. 128, Full Text
Bhagwandin A, Gravett N, Lyamin OI, Oosthuizen MK, Bennett NC, Siegel JM, Manger PR: 2011. Sleep and wake in rhythmic vs. arrhythmic chronotypes of a microphthalmic species of African mole-rat (Fukomys mechowii). Brain Behavior and Evolution, 78, pp 162-183.
Weirauch C, Forero D, Jacobs DH: 2011. On the evolution of raptorial legs - an insect example (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Phymatinae). Cladistics-The International Journal of the Willi Hennig Society, 27, pp 138-149.
Bray T, Bennett NC, Bloomer P: 2011. Low levels of polymorphism at novel microsatellite loci developed for bathyergid mole-rats from South Africa. Conservation Genetics Resources, 3 (2), pp 221-224, Full Text
Garnas JR, Houston DR, Ayres MP, Evans C: 2011. Disease ontogeny overshadows effects of climate and species interaction on population dynamics in a non native forest disease complex. Ecography, 34, pp 001-010, Full Text
Boettiger AN, Wittmeyer G, Starfield R, Volrath F, Douglas-Hamilton I, Getz WM: 2011. Inferring ecological and behavioral drivers of African elephant movement using a linear filtering approach. Ecology, 92 (8), pp 1648-1657, Full Text
Carvalheiro LG, Veldtman R, Shenkute AG, Tesfay GB, Pirk CWW, Donaldson JS, Nicolson SW: 2011. Natural and within-farmland biodiversity enhances crop productivity. Ecology Letters, 14, pp 251-259, Full Text
Garibaldi LA, Steffan-Dewenter I, Kremen C, Morales JM, Bommarco R, Cunningham SA, Carvalheiro LG, Chacoff NP, Dudenhoffer JH, Greenleaf SS, Holzschuh A, Isaacs R, Krewenka K, et al : 2011. Stability of pollination services decreases with isolation from natural areas despite honey bee visits. Ecology Letters, 14, pp 1062-1072, Full Text
Köhler A, Verburgt L, Fleming PA, McWhorter TJ, Nicolson SW: 2011. Interruptions in nectar availability: responses of White-bellied Sunbirds (Cinnyris talatala) and Brown Honeyeaters (Lichmera indistincta). Emu, 111, pp 252-258, Full Text
Aubrey DP, Boyles JG, Krysinsky LS, Teskey RO: 2011. Spatial and temporal patterns of xylem sap pH derived from stems and twigs of Populus deltoides L. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 71, pp 376-381.
Köhler A, Sadowska J, Olszewska J, Trzeciak P, Berger-Tal O, Tracy CR: 2011. Staying warm or moist? Operative temperature and thermal preferences of common frogs (Rana temporaria), and effects on locomotion. Herpetological Journal, 21 (1), pp 17-26, Full Text
Symes CT, Symes CT, McKechnie AE, McKechnie AE, Nicolson SW, Woodborne SM: 2011. The nutritional significance of a winter-flowering succulent for opportunistic avian nectarivores. Ibis, 153, pp 110-121, Full Text
Zheng H-Q, Hu F-L, Pirk CWW: 2011. Errors in comb building behaviour inApis cerana cerana that result in entrapped workers. Insectes Sociaux, 58, pp 413-415.
Sole CL, Wirta H, Forgie SA, Scholtz CH: 2011. Origin of Madagascan Scarabaeini dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae): dispersal from Africa. Insect Systematics & Evolution, 42, pp 29-40, Full Text
Strumpher WP, Scholtz CH: 2011. Description of a new, possibly extinct, species of flightlessTrox F. (Coleoptera: Trogidae) from South Africa. Insect Systematics & Evolution, 42, pp 337-348.
Willis CKR, Menzies AK, Boyles JG, Wojciechowski MS: 2011. Evaporative water loss is a plausible explanation for mortality of bats from white-nose syndrome. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 51 (3), pp 364-373.
Boyles JG, Seebacker F, Smit B, McKechnie AE: 2011. Adaptive thermoregulation in endotherms may alter responses to climate change. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 51 (5), pp 676-690.
McKechnie AE, Mzilikazi N: 2011. Heterothermy in Afrotropical mammals and birds: a review. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 51 (3), pp 349-363, Full Text
Bennett NC: 2011. Teasing apart socially-induced infertility in non-reproductive female Damaraland mole-rats,Fukomys damarensis (Rodentia: Bathyergidae). Integrative Zoology, 6, pp 311-320, Full Text
Mlambo S, Sole CL, Scholtz CH: 2011. Phylogeny of the African ball-rolling dung beetle genusEpirinus Reiche (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae). Invertebrate Systematics, 25, pp 197-207, Full Text
Smit B, Boyles JG, Brigham RM, McKechnie AE: 2011. Torpor in dark times: patterns of heterothermy are associated with the lunar cycle in a nocturnal bird. Journal of Biological Rhythms, 26 (3), pp 241-248, Full Text
Bhagwandin A, Fuxe K, Bennett NC, Manger PR: 2011. Distribution of orexinergic neurons and their terminal networks in the brains of two species of African mole rats. Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy, 41, pp 32-42, Full Text
George JT, Veldhuis JD, Roseweir AK, Newton CL, Faccenda E, Millar RP, Millar RP, Anderson RA: 2011. Kisspeptin-10 is a potent stimulator of LH and increases pulse frequency in men. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 96 (8), pp E1228-E1236, Full Text
Pirk CWW, Crous K, Duangphakdee O, Radloff SE, Hepburn HR: 2011. Economics of comb wax salvage by the red dwarf honeybee,Apis florea. Journal of Comparative Physiology B-Biochemical Systemic and Environmental Physiology, 181, pp 353-359, Full Text
Wege M, Bester MN, van der Merwe DS, Postma M: 2011. Oedipus complex in an Antarctic fur seal pup?. Journal of Ethology, 29, pp 505-507, Full Text
White AM, Cameron EZ: 2011. Evidence of helping behavior in a free-ranging population of communally breeding warthogs. Journal of Ethology, 29, pp 419-425.
Holter P, Scholtz CH: 2011. Re-establishment of biting mouthparts in desert-living dung beetles (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) feeding on plant litter - old structures reacquired or new ones evolved?. Journal of Morphology, 272, pp 1007-1016.
Zengeya TA, Decru E, Vreven E: 2011. Revalidation ofHepsetus cuvieri (Castelnau, 1861) (Characiformes: Hepsetidae) from the Quanza, Zambezi and southern part of the Congo ichthyofaunal provinces. Journal of Natural History, 45 (27-28), pp 1723-1744.
Harrison A, Bown KJ, Horak IG, Horak IG: 2011. Detection of Anaplasma bovis in an undescribed tick species collected from the eastern rock sengi Elephantulus myurus. Journal of Parasitology, 97 (6), pp 1012-1016, Full Text
Boyles JG, Smit B, McKechnie AE: 2011. Does use of the torpor cut-off method to analyze variation in body temperature cause more problems than it solves?. Journal of Thermal Biology, 36, pp 373-379.
White AM, Cameron EZ: 2011. Fitness consequences of maternal rearing strategies in warthogs: influence of a group size and composition. Journal of Zoology, 285, pp 77-84.
Bateman PW, Fleming PA: 2011. Who are you looking at? Hadeda ibises use direction of gaze, head orientation and approach speed in their risk assessment of a potential predator. Journal of Zoology, 285, pp 316-323.
Faulkes CG, Bennett NC, Cotterill FPD, Stanley W, Mgode GF, Verheyen E: 2011. Phylogeography and cryptic diversity of the solitary-dwelling silvery mole-rat, genusHeliophobius (Family: Bathyergidae). Journal of Zoology, 285, pp 324-338, Full Text
van der Merwe I, Oosthuizen MK, Chimimba CT, Bennett NC: 2011. Circadian rhythms of locomotor activity in the reddish grey musk shrew (Eulipotyphla: Soricidae) from South Africa. Journal of Zoology, 284 (1), pp 124-132, Full Text
Viljoen H, Bennett NC, Lutermann H: 2011. Life history traits, but not season, affect the febrile response to a lipopolysaccharride challenge in highveld mole-rats. Journal of Zoology, 285, pp 222-229, Full Text
Reisinger R, de Bruyn PJN, Bester MN: 2011. Predatory impact of killer whales on pinniped and penguin populations at the Subantarctic Prince Edward Islands: fact and fiction. Journal of Zoology, 285, pp 1-10, Full Text
Maputla N, Dempster ER, Raman J, Ferguson JWH: 2011. Strong hyrid viability between two widely divergent chromosomal forms of the pouched mouse. Journal of Zoology, 285, pp 180-187.
Dippenaar-Schoeman AS, Hamer M, Haddad CR: 2011. Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the Mkambati Nature Reserve, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Koedoe, 53 (1058), pp 1-10, Full Text
Dippenaar-Schoeman AS, Hamer M, Haddad CR: 2011. Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the vegetation layer of the Mkambati Nature Reserve, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Koedoe, 53 (1), pp 1-10, Full Text
McIntyre T, Bornemann H, Plötz J, Tosh C, Bester MN: 2011. Water column use and forage strategies of female southern elephant seals from Marion Island. Marine Biology, 158, pp 2125-2139.
Miller CA, Reeb D, Best PB, Knowlton AR, Brown MW, Moore MJ: 2011. Blubber thickness in right whalesEubalaena glacialis andEubalaena australis related with reproduction, life history status and prey abundance. Marine Ecology-Progress Series, 438, pp 267-283, Full Text
McIntyre T, Ansorge IJ, Bornemann H, Plötz J, Tosh C, Bester MN: 2011. Elephant seal dive behaviour is influenced by ocean temperature: implications for climate change impacts on an ocean predator. Marine Ecology-Progress Series, 441, pp 257-272.
Bhagwandin A, Gravett N, Hemingway J, Oosthuizen MK, Bennett NC, Siegel JM, Manger PR: 2011. Orexinergic neuron numbers in three species of African mole-rats with rhythmic and arrhythmic chronotypes. Neuroscience, 199, pp 153-165, Full Text
Horak IG, Horak IG, Welman S, Hallam SL, Lutermann H, Mzilikazi N: 2011. Ticks of four-toed elephant shrews and Southern African hedgehogs. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, 78 (1), pp 1-3, Full Text
Dacke M, Byrne M, Baird E, Scholtz CH, Warrant EJ: 2011. How dim is dim? Precision of the celestial compass in moonlight and sunlight. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences, 366, pp 697-702.
Boyles JG, Smit B, McKechnie AE: 2011. A new comparative metric for estimating heterothermy in endotherms. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 84 (1), pp 115-123, Full Text
Lebesa L, Khan ZR, Hassanali A, Pickett JA, Bruce TJA, Skellern M, Krüger K: 2011. Responses of the blister beetleHycleus apicicornis to visual stimuli. Physiological Entomology, 36, pp 220-229.
Streicher S, Boyles JG, Oosthuizen MK, Bennett NC: 2011. Body temperature patterns and rhythmicity in free-ranging subterranean Damaraland mole-rats,Fukomys damarensis. Plos One, 6 (10), p. e26346, Full Text
Viljoen H, Bennett NC, Ueckermann EA, Lutermann H: 2011. The role of host traits, season and group size on parasite burdens in a cooperative mammal. Plos One, 6 (11), p. e27003, Full Text
Jewell O, Wcisel MA, Gennari E, Towner AV, Bester MN, Johnson RL, Singh S: 2011. Effects of smart position only (SPOT) tag deployment on white sharksCarcharodon carcharias in South Africa. Plos One, 6 (11), p. e27242, Full Text
Aplin KP, Suzuki H, Chinen AA, Chesser RT, Ten Have J, Donnellan SC, Austin J, Frost A, Gonzalez JP, Bastos AD, Catzeflis F, Soubrier J, Fang Y-P, et al : 2011. Multiple geographic origins of commensalism and complex dispersal history of Black Rats. Plos One, 6 (11), p. e26357, Full Text
Newton CL, Whay AM, McArdle CA, Zhang M, van Koppen CJ, van de Lagemaat R, Segaloff DL, Millar RP, Millar RP: 2011. Rescue of expression and signaling of human luteinizing hormone G protein-coupled receptor mutants with an allosterically binding small-molecule agonist. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108 (17), pp 7172-7176.
Jarosch A, Stolle E, Crewe RM, Moritz RFA: 2011. Alternative splicing of a single transcription factor drives selfish reproductive behavior in honeybee workers (Apis mellifera). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108 (37), pp 15282-15287.
Elwen SH, Leeney RH: 2011. Interactions between leatherback turtles and killer whales in Namibian waters, including possible predation. South African Journal of Wildlife Research, 41 (2), pp 205-209, Full Text
McIntyre T, Postma M, van der Merwe DS, Wege M, Bester MN: 2011. Hitchhiking goose barnacles and their potential implications on the functioning of animal-borne instruments. South African Journal of Wildlife Research, 41 (2), pp 218-223, Full Text
Foord SH, Dippenaar-Schoeman AS, Haddad CR, Lotz LN, Lyle R: 2011. The faunistic diversity of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the Savanna Biome in South Africa. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, 66 (3), pp 170-201, Full Text
Abu Samra N, Jori F, Samie A, Thompson PN: 2011. The prevalence of Cryptosporidium spp. oocysts in wild mammals in the Kruger National Park, South Africa. Veterinary Parasitology, 175, pp 155-159.
Taylor PJ, Lavrenchenko A, Carleton MD, Verheyen E, Bennett NC, Oosthuizen CJ, Maree S: 2011. Specific limits and emerging diversity patterns in East African populations of laminate-toothed rats, genusOtomys (Muridae: Murinae: Otomyini): a revision of theOtomys typus complex. Zootaxa, 3024, pp 1-66, Full Text
LaPolla JS, Hawkes PG, Fisher BL: 2011. Monograph ofNylanderia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the World, Part I:Nyanderia in the Afrotropics. Zootaxa, 3110, pp 10-36, Full Text
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