Flexible social structure of a desert rodent, Rhombomys opimus: philopatry, kinship, and ecological constraints

By J. Randall, K. Rogovin, P. Parker, John A Eimes. 2005

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PHILOPATRY IN PRAIRIE VOLES: AN EVALUATION OF THE HABITAT SATURATION HYPOTHESIS (2008, background): “Although some of the evidence supporting habitat saturation as the basis of philopatry comes from observational studies that have detected associations between density and group formation (Cochran and Solomon 2000; Randall et al. 2005), more rigorous support is provided by field studies in which adu”
Association patterns and kinship in female Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) of southeastern Australia (2006, unknown): “, great gerbils (Randall et al. 2005)] and foraging grounds [e.”
The adaptive value of sociality in mammalian groups (2007, background): “Giant gerbils (Rhombomys opimus) are desertadapted rodents which live in groups that consist of one male and one to six related females (Randall et al. 2005).”
Fitness consequences of group living in the degu Octodon degus, a plural breeder rodent with communal care (2009, background): “Like other studies of rodents (e.g. Randall et al. 2005), we cannot exclude the possibility that individuals that were not recaptured had moved out of the population.”