Latrine distribution and patterns of use by wild meerkats: implications for territory and mate defence

By N. Jordan, M. Cherry, M. Manser. 2007

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Bacterial communities in meerkat anal scent secretions vary with host sex, age, and group membership (2014, background): “Moreover, members of neighboring groups were both more closely related and more likely to share similar habitats, given partial overlap in their territories (Jordan et al. 2007), but the geographical distance between groups failed to predict the composition of host bacterial communities.”
Dear enemies or nasty neighbors? Causes and consequences of variation in the responses of group-living species to territorial intrusions (2018, background): “Movement patterns can also change in the aftermath of territorial intrusions: for instance, losing groups of white-faced capuchins travelled further, faster and with fewer breaks than did winners following contests with rivals (Crofoot 2013); while, on discovering rival-group feces on their territor”
The irrelevance of individual discrimination in meerkat alarm calls (2007, methodology): “As part of the Kalahari Meerkat Project’s long-term study, all animals in every group were marked with a subcutaneous transponder (Clutton-Brock et al. 2001) and with superficial dye spots for individual identification (details see Jordan et al. 2007 ), and were habituated to a level that allowed r”
The social network structure of a wild meerkat population: 1. Inter-group interactions (2009, background): “Most obviously, groups may fight with each other when they encounter each other (Jordan et al. 2007).”