Rodent Societies: An Ecological & Evolutionary Perspective

dogs and other rodents show that alarm calling is a com- plicated behavior that defies simple explanation. Multiple Mating by Fe ...

Female black-tailed prairie dogs that copulated with ex- actly two males reared (insignificantly) larger litters than fe- males ...

that he will be the only male to copulate with her. If several females come into estrus on the same day, however, then monopoliz ...

equally synchronous? In particular, are female black-tailed prairie dogs less synchronous than female Gunnison’s and Utah prairi ...

Females Female black-tailed prairie dogs reap at least five benefits from infanticide (Hoogland 1995): (1) removal of future com ...

eliminate an entire litter via serial infanticides over several days (N3 killers). Infanticide after invasion by a new male is ...

rie dogs, and perhaps female Utah prairie dogs as well, rear larger litters after copulating with several males. Another reason ...

Conservation & Disease ...

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R odents are a hard sellwhen it comes to conservation. In most human cultures, rodents are generally viewed as vermin. Only in o ...

Given the overwhelming importance of rodents to hu- man welfare, both directly and indirectly, it is pertinent to ask how we are ...

Rodent Demographic Patterns Rodents have been the subjects of innumerable investiga- tions on population dynamics, and so relati ...

which occurs only in mesic grassland along the western edge of Marin County, California, and is isolated by over 100 km from the ...

deleterious effects that may accumulate over years at low densities, and occasionally will produce genetic novelties that will b ...

preferred the interior of such patches (Lidicker and Peter- son 1999). A third intrinsic variable affecting colonization poten- ...

stable equilibrium called the minimum threshold density (fig. 38.4). Densities falling below this threshold are headed for extin ...

ney (1993) model the relationship between the number and intensity of connections among species (which they call de- pendencies) ...

itate movement of predators, parasites, and disease organ- isms across the landscape (Hess 1994; Watson 1991). A more subtle eff ...

regarding rodent conservation. These attitudes empha- size the need to focus conservation efforts on entire communities rather t ...

S pecies of ground squirrels(Spermophilus) and prairie dogs (Cynomys) comprise a monophyletic group of fossorial species (Black ...