Articles about 'Tim Clutton-Brock'

Getting close was a challenge. Cracking it was key to an incredible 30-year study of the wild meerkats of the Kalahari. 

New research suggests that cooperative breeding makes mammal species such as meerkats better suited to dry, harsh climates.  

The size of a female animals' brain may determine whether they live longer and have more healthy offspring, according to new research led by the University of Cambridge. 

One of the most interesting facts about mole rats – that, as with ants and termites, individuals specialise in particular tasks throughout their lives – turns out to be wrong. Instead, a new study led by the University of Cambridge shows that individuals perform different roles at different ages and that age rather than caste membership accounts for contrasts in their behaviour.

Latest research shows subordinate meerkat siblings grow competitively, boosting their chance of becoming a dominant breeder when a vacancy opens up by making sure that younger siblings don’t outgrow them.

Mothers who lose their pups to infanticide by the dominant female in a meerkat group often then provide the dominant female with a wet-nurse service, say researchers who have carried out the most comprehensive study of wet-nursing in a single species to date.

New research indicates that social monogamy evolved as a result of competition for females.

A new study by the Kalahari Meerkat project of the University of Cambridge shows that female meerkats fight more than their male counterparts for dominance.

Older meerkats teach younger meerkats how to handle prey.