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Vocal fold control beyond the species-specific repertoire in an orang-utan (2016)
Journal Article
Lameira, A., Hardus, M. E., Mielke, A., Wich, S. A., & Shumaker, R. W. (2016). Vocal fold control beyond the species-specific repertoire in an orang-utan. Scientific Reports, 6, Article 30315. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep30315

Vocal fold control was critical to the evolution of spoken language, much as it today allows us to learn vowel systems. It has, however, never been demonstrated directly in a non-human primate, leading to the suggestion that it evolved in the human l... Read More about Vocal fold control beyond the species-specific repertoire in an orang-utan.

The conservation costs of game ranching (2016)
Journal Article
Pitman, R., Fattebert, J., Williams, S., Williams, K., Hill, R., Hunter, L., …Balme, G. (2016). The conservation costs of game ranching. Conservation Letters, 10(4), 402-412. https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12276

The devolution of user rights of wildlife in southern Africa has led to a widespread land-use shift from livestock farming to game ranching. The economic advantages of game ranching over livestock farming are significant, but so too are the risks ass... Read More about The conservation costs of game ranching.

Managerial relations in Kenyan health care: Empathy and the limits of governmentality (2016)
Journal Article
Brown, H. (2016). Managerial relations in Kenyan health care: Empathy and the limits of governmentality. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 22(3), 591-609. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12448

This article describes relationships between a team of mid-level government health managers working in a rural Kenyan district and those whom they managed: health workers based at rural health facilities. In this context, managerial expertise was hea... Read More about Managerial relations in Kenyan health care: Empathy and the limits of governmentality.

Learning, Labour and Leisure (2016)
Book Chapter
Shah, R. (2016). Learning, Labour and Leisure. In A. Skinner, M. Baillie Smith, E. Brown, & T. Troll (Eds.), Education, learning and the transformation of development (36-49). Routledge

Schooling is widely used as a tool of international development. One of the arguments for this is that, in contrast with models of development in which solutions are given to communities in response to problems perceived by foreigners, education is a... Read More about Learning, Labour and Leisure.

Friends, Sisters, and Wives: Social Support and Social Risks in Peer Relationships Among Men Who Have Sex With Men (MSM) in India (2016)
Journal Article
Tomori, C., Srikrishnan, A. K., Ridgeway, K., Solomon, S. S., Mehta, S. H., Solomon, S., & Celentano, D. D. (2016). Friends, Sisters, and Wives: Social Support and Social Risks in Peer Relationships Among Men Who Have Sex With Men (MSM) in India. AIDS education and prevention, 28(2), 153-164. https://doi.org/10.1521/aeap.2016.28.2.153

Globally, men who have sex with men (MSM) are at high risk for HIV. Many HIV-prevention efforts rely on community outreach and mobilization to engage MSM. This study examines peer relationships and their potential role in HIV prevention through 31 fo... Read More about Friends, Sisters, and Wives: Social Support and Social Risks in Peer Relationships Among Men Who Have Sex With Men (MSM) in India.

Mate-guarding by male mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx) is associated with female MHC genotype (2016)
Journal Article
Setchell, J., Richards, S., Abbott, K., & Knapp, L. (2016). Mate-guarding by male mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx) is associated with female MHC genotype. Behavioral Ecology, 27(6), 1756-1766. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arw106

Female choice for male major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genotype has been widely tested, but the relationship between male mating strategies and female MHC genotype has received far less attention. Moreover, few studies of MHC-associated mate c... Read More about Mate-guarding by male mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx) is associated with female MHC genotype.

Governance, participation and local perceptions of protected areas: Unwinding traumatic nature in the Blouberg Mountain Range (2016)
Journal Article
Constant, N., & Bell, S. (2016). Governance, participation and local perceptions of protected areas: Unwinding traumatic nature in the Blouberg Mountain Range. Environmental Values, 26(5), 539-559. https://doi.org/10.3197/096327117x15002190708100

Local perceptions of protected areas are important for conservation and the sustainability of protected areas. We undertook qualitative and ethnographic fieldwork to explore relationships between people and protected areas in the Blouberg Mountain Ra... Read More about Governance, participation and local perceptions of protected areas: Unwinding traumatic nature in the Blouberg Mountain Range.