scientific publications about solitary animals

Reviews

Makuya, L. & C. Schradin (2024) The secret social life of solitary mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 13, e2402871121.

Makuya, L. & C. Schradin (2024) Costs and benefits of solitary living in mammals. Journal of Zoology, n/a.

Olivier, C.-A., Schradin, C. & Makuya, L. 2022. Global Change and Conservation of Solitary Mammals. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10.

Evolution of solitary living

Makuya, L., N. Pillay & C. Schradin (2024) Kin-based spatial structure in a solitary small mammal as indicated by GPS dataloggers. Animal Behaviour, 215, 45.

Olivier, C.-A., J. S. Martin, C. Pilisi, P. Agnani, C. Kauffmann, L. Hayes, A. V. Jaeggi & C. Schradin (2024) Primate social organization evolved from a flexible pair-living ancestor. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121, e2215401120.

Qiu, J., Olivier, C. A., Jaeggi, A. V. & Schradin, C. 2022. The evolution of marsupial social organization. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 289, 20221589.

Olivier, C.-A., Jaeggi, A. V., Hayes, L. D. & Schradin, C. Revisiting the components of Macroscelidea social systems: Evidence for variable social organization, including pair-living, but not for a monogamous mating system. Ethology, n/a.


Jaeggi, A. V., Miles, M.I., Festa-Bianchet, M., Schradin, C, Hayes, L.D. (2020). Variable social organization is ubiquitous in Artiodactyla and probably evolved from pair-living ancestors. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 287(1926): 20200035. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.0035

Ecology of solitary living

Mechanisms of solitary living