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meerkats

pied babblers

red deer

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Head of Group

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Professor Tim Clutton-Brock FRS Vertebrate breeding systems; population dynamics; natural and sexual selection

Secretary: Penny Roth


Post-docs and College Research Fellows
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Matt Bell  Signaller-receiver communication, conflict resolution

Dieter Lukas 
Distribution of kin and cooperation in animal societies

Kelly Moyes 
Life-history strategies and trade-offs in red deer

Stuart Sharp  Cooperative breeding, life history and demography in vertebrates

Alex Thornton  Social learning, development and the spread of traditions


PhD Students

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Andrew Bateman Meerkat population dynamics

Julian Drewe  Role of social interaction in transmission of infectious disease

Sinead English 
Individual variation in helping behaviour in meerkats

Neil Jordan 
The functions of scent marking

Raff Mares Variation in prospecting behaviour in meerkats

Bonnie Metherell  Helper-pup associations in banded mongooses


Former members

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Click here for a list of former members of LARG.

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