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Behaviour of animals in their normal environment, including all the processes, both internal and external, by which they respond to changes in their environment. (Source: ALL2)

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Jackson JC, Duodu KG, Holse M, Lima de Faria MD, Jordaan D, Chingwaru W, Hansen A, Cencic A, Kandawa-Schultz M, Mpotokwane SM, Chimwamurombe P, de Kock HL, Minnaar A 2010. Chapter 5 – The Morama Bean (Tylosema esculentum): A Potential Crop for Southern Africa. Advances in Food and Nutrition Research 61 187-246

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Loarie SR, van Aarde RJ, Pimm SL 2009. Elephant seasonal vegetation preferences across dry and wet savannas. Biological Conservation 142 (12) 3099-3107

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320709003760

Bercovitch FB, Bashaw MJ, del Castillo SM 2006. Sociosexual behavior, male mating tactics, and the reproductive cycle of giraffe Giraffa camelopardalis. Hormones and Behavior 50 (2) 314-321

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Pinter-Wollman N, Isbell LA, Hart LA 2009. Assessing translocation outcome: Comparing behavioral and physiological aspects of translocated and resident African elephants (Loxodonta africana). Biological Conservation 142 (5) 1116-1124

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320709000597

Evans KE, Harris S 2008. Adolescence in male African elephants, Loxodonta africana, and the importance of sociality. Animal Behaviour 76 (3) 779-787

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347208002133

Prendini L, Weygold P, Wheeler WC 2005. Systematics of the Damon variegatus group of African whip spiders (Chelicerata: Amblypygi): Evidence from behaviour, morphology and DNA. Organisms Diversity and Evolution 5 (3) 203-236

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1439609205000425

Rathburn GB, Cowley TE 2008. Behavioural ecology of the black mongoose (Galerella nigrata) in Namibia. Mammalian Biology - Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde 73 (6) 444-450

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Carter KD, Seddon JM, Frère CH, Carter JK, Goldizen AW 2013. Fission–fusion dynamics in wild giraffes may be driven by kinship, spatial overlap and individual social preferences. Animal Behaviour 85 (2) 385-394

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Cunningham P 2013. Meroles ctenodactylus (Smith, 1838) Diet. 22-23

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Carter KD, Brand R, Carter JK, Shorrocks B, Goldizen AW 2013. Social networks, long-term associations and age-related sociability of wild giraffes. Animal Behaviour 86 (5) 901-910

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347213003539

Hughes JJ, Ward D 1993. Predation risk and distance to cover affect foraging behaviour in Namib Desert gerbils. Animal Behaviour 46 (6) 1243-1245

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347283713205

Kühnelt W 1965. Nahrungsbeziehungen innerhalb der Tierwelt der Namibwüste (Südwestafrika). Nahrungsbeziehungen innerhalb der Tierwelt der Namibwüste (Südwestafrika) 185-190

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Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-662-25291-8_1

Trinkel M 2010. Prey selection and prey preferences of spotted hyenas Crocuta crocuta in the Etosha National Park, Namibia. Ecological Research 25 (2) 413-417

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Hayward MW, Hayward GJ, Druce DJ, Kerley GIH 2009. Do fences constrain predator movements on an evolutionary scale? Home range, food intake and movement patterns of large predators reintroduced to Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa. Biodiversity and Conservation 18 (4) 887-904

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10531-008-9452-y

Seeber PA, Ciofolo I, Ganswindt A 2012. Behavioural inventory of the giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis). BMC Research Notes 5 650

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1756-0500-5-650

Huchard E, Alvergne A, Féjan D, Knapp LA, Cowlishaw G, Raymond M 2010. More than friends? Behavioural and genetic aspects of heterosexual associations in wild chacma baboons. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 64 (5) 769-781

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00265-009-0894-3

Hill PSM 2006. How do animals use substrate-borne vibrations as an information source?. Naturwissenschaften 96 (12) 1355-1371

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00114-009-0588-8

Maclean GL 1967. Die systematische Stellung der Flughühner (Pteroclididae). Journal für Ornithologie 108 (2) 203-217

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01671410

Mills MGL 1990. The comparative denning behaviour and development of cubs. Kalahari Hyenas 207-225

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-011-1244-4_6

Hamilton WJ 1985. Demographic consequences of a food and water shortage to desert Chacma Baboons, Papio ursinus. International Journal of Primatology 6 (5) 451-462

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02735570

Mills MGL 1990. Comparative foraging behaviour. Kalahari Hyenas 71-129

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-011-1244-4_3

Clousley-Thompson JL 1996. Community Processes. Biotic Interactions in Arid Lands 127-167

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-60977-0_7

Clousley-Thompson JL 1991. Interspecific Relationships, Feeding Specializations and Species Diversity. Ecophysiology of Desert Arthropods and Reptiles 147-168

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-75337-4_8

Williams JB, Tieleman BI Physiological Ecology and Behavior of Desert Birds. Current Ornithology 16 299-353

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4615-1211-0_6

Heatwole H 1996. Foraging: The Acquisition of Energy. Energetics of Desert Invertebrates 35-116

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-60923-7_2

Rasmussen JL, Seely MK, Pietruszka RD 1991. The reproductive behavior of six species of Namib desert tenebrionid beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). Journal of Insect Behavior 4 (5) 567-582

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01048071

Lubyin YD, Henschel JR 1990. Foraging at the thermal limit: burrowing spiders (Seothyra, Eresidae) in the Namib desert dunes. Oecologia 84 (4) 461-467

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Ward D, Seely MK 1996. Adaptation and Constraint in the Evolution of the Physiology and Behavior of the Namib Desert Tenebrionid Beetle Genus Onymacris. Evolution 50 (3) 1231-1240

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Braine SG, Braine J 1970. Osprey fishing in shallow water. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 41 (4) 263

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1970.9634379#.VRluE2f9kpE

Braine JWS, Braine SG 1970. Two francolin species laying in one nest. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 41 (4) 263

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Nørgaard T, Dacke M 2010. Fog-basking behaviour and water collection efficiency in Namib Desert Darkling beetles. Frontiers in Zoology 7 23

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Hamilton III WJ, Penrith M-L 1977. Description of an individual possible hybrid tenebrionid beetle and the habitat preference of the parental species. The Canadian Entomologist 109 701-710

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Masson MJ, Naris PM 2002. Seismic Sensitivity in the Desert Golden Mole (Eremitalpa granti): A Review. Journal of Comparative Psychology 116 (2) 158-163

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Young AJ, Monfort SL, Clutton-Brock TH 2008. The causes of physiological suppression among female meerkats: A role for subordinate restraint due to the threat of infanticide?. Hormones and Behavior 53 (1) 131-139

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0018506X07002140

Spong GF, Hodge SJ, Young AJ, Clutton-Brock TH 2008. Factors affecting the reproductive success of dominant male meerkats. Molecular Ecology 17 (9) 2287-2299

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Clutton-Brock TH, Hodge SJ, Flower TP 2008. Group size and the suppression of subordinate reproduction in Kalahari meerkats. Animal Behaviour 76 689-700

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347208002005

Hodge SJ, Manica A, Flower TP, Clutton-Brock TH 2008. Determinants of reproductive success in dominant female meerkats. Journal of Animal Ecology 77 92-102

Website link:http://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/9014

Madden JR, Kunc HJP, English S, Manser MB, Clutton-Brock TH 2009. Do meerkat (Suricata suricatta) pups exhibit strategic begging behaviour and so exploit adults that feed at relatively high rates?. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 63 (9) 1259-1268

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00265-009-0777-7

Prins HHT 1996. Ecology and behaviour of the African buffalo: Social inequality and decision making.

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Bertram BCR 1979. Ostriches recognize their own eggs and discard others. Nature 279 233 - 234

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Short LL, Horne JFM 1985. Behavioral Notes on the Nest-Parasitic Afrotropical Honeyguides (Aves: Indicatoridae). American Museum Novitates 2825 1-46

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Delport W 2001. The taxonomic status of the Damaraland Redbilled Hornbill (Tockus erythrorhynchus damarensis).

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Baumbach EJM 1984. Rooibek-Fisant. Laniarius 22 15

Baron HE, Baron ST 1976. Pearl Spotted Owl at Sociable Weaver nest. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 47 (4) 225

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Barbour DJ 1968. Notes on birds attracted when burning firebreaks in the western Okavango. Bokmakierie 20 20

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Simmons R 1986. Immature black sparrowhawk eating live guineafowl. Gabar 1 (2) 60-61

Barnard P, Simmons R, Jackson HD, Goodman SM, Cyrus DP, Herholdt JJ 1986. Short Notes. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 57 (2) 107-114

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Simmons R, Barnard P, Smith PC 1987. Reproductive Behaviour of Circus cyaneus in North America and Europe: A Comparison. Ornis Scandinavica 18 (1) 33-41

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