Intensive behavioral monitoring of meerkats

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Method synopsis

Frequent visits to wild meerkat groups to record births, deaths, emigration, and social status changes over 20 years of continuous observation.

Synthesized from method descriptions across 1 paper using this protocol.

Procedure from a recent peer-reviewed implementation

Steps below were extracted from the most recent peer-reviewed implementation of this protocol in the corpus — Demographic consequences of changes in environmental periodicity (2023), Ecology. Implementations in other papers (listed below) may differ.

1. Meerkat demographic monitoring
   Visited wild groups of individually marked meerkats 1-3 times per week to collect data on birth, death, emigration, recruitment and social status. Characterized life history by juvenile (J; 0-6 months), subadult (S; 7-12 months), adult helper (H; >12 months with subordinate status) and dominant (D; >12 months with dominant status) stages.
   Quantities: 20 years of individual data from multiple groups, 1997-2016Duration: 1-3 visits per week over 20 yearsConditions: Kalahari desert in Kuruman River Reserve, South Africa (26°58'S, 21°49'E)

Output Measurements

• birth rates
• survival rates
• emigration rates
• social status
• recruitment

Papers Using This Protocol (1)

Species Studied With This Protocol