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Experiences of first-generation scholars at a highly selective UK university (2021)
Journal Article
Hindle, C., McEwan, C., Boliver, V., Maclarnon, A., Simpson, B., & Brown, H. (2021). Experiences of first-generation scholars at a highly selective UK university. Learning and Teaching, 14(2), 1-31. https://doi.org/10.3167/latiss.2021.140202

Targets set by the UK Office for Students require highly academically selective UK universities to enrol a greater percentage of students identified as least likely to participate in higher education. Such students are typically at a disadvantage in... Read More about Experiences of first-generation scholars at a highly selective UK university.

Implications of Tourist-Macaque Interactions for Disease Transmission (2017)
Journal Article
Carne, C., Semple, S., MacLarnon, A., Majolo, B., & Marechal, L. (2017). Implications of Tourist-Macaque Interactions for Disease Transmission. EcoHealth, 14(4), 704-717. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-017-1284-3

During wildlife tourism, proximity or actual contact between people and animals may lead to a significant risk of anthropozoonotic disease transmission. In this paper, we use social network analysis, disease simulation modelling and data on animal he... Read More about Implications of Tourist-Macaque Interactions for Disease Transmission.

A protocol for training group-housed rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) to cooperate with husbandry and research procedures using positive reinforcement (2017)
Journal Article
Kemp, C., Thatcher, H., Farningham, D., Witham, C., MacLarnon, A., Holmes, A., …Bethell, E. J. (2017). A protocol for training group-housed rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) to cooperate with husbandry and research procedures using positive reinforcement. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 197, 90-100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applanim.2017.08.006

There has been increased recognition of the 3Rs in laboratory animal management over the last decade, including improvements in animal handling and housing. For example, positive reinforcement is now more widely used to encourage primates to cooperat... Read More about A protocol for training group-housed rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) to cooperate with husbandry and research procedures using positive reinforcement.

Correlates of androgens in wild male Barbary macaques: Testing the challenge hypothesis (2017)
Journal Article
Rincon, A. V., Marechal, L., Semple, S., Majolo, B., & MacLarnon, A. (2017). Correlates of androgens in wild male Barbary macaques: Testing the challenge hypothesis. American Journal of Primatology, 79(10), Article e22689. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.22689

Investigating causes and consequences of variation in hormonal expression is a key focus in behavioral ecology. Many studies have explored patterns of secretion of the androgen testosterone in male vertebrates, using the challenge hypothesis (Wingfie... Read More about Correlates of androgens in wild male Barbary macaques: Testing the challenge hypothesis.

Primates' behavioural responses to tourists: evidence for a tradeoff between potential risks and benefits (2016)
Journal Article
Marechal, L., MacLarnon, A., Majolo, B., & Semple, S. (2016). Primates' behavioural responses to tourists: evidence for a tradeoff between potential risks and benefits. Scientific Reports, 6, Article 32465. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep32465

The presence of, and interactions with tourists can be both risky and beneficial for wild animals. In wildlife tourism settings, animals often experience elevated rates of aggression from conspecifics, and they may also be threatened or physically ag... Read More about Primates' behavioural responses to tourists: evidence for a tradeoff between potential risks and benefits.

Assessing the Effects of Tourist Provisioning on the Health of Wild Barbary Macaques in Morocco (2016)
Journal Article
Marechal, L., Semple, S., Majolo, B., & MacLarnon, A. (2016). Assessing the Effects of Tourist Provisioning on the Health of Wild Barbary Macaques in Morocco. PLoS ONE, 11(5), Article e0155920. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0155920

Feeding wildlife is a very popular tourist activity, largely because it facilitates the close observation of animals in their natural habitat. Such provisioning may benefit animals by improving their survival and reproductive success, especially duri... Read More about Assessing the Effects of Tourist Provisioning on the Health of Wild Barbary Macaques in Morocco.

Metabolic strategies in wild male Barbary macaques: evidence from faecal measurement of thyroid hormone (2016)
Journal Article
Cristobal-Azkarate, J., Marechal, L., Semple, S., Majolo, B., & MacLarnon, A. (2016). Metabolic strategies in wild male Barbary macaques: evidence from faecal measurement of thyroid hormone. Biology Letters, 12(4), Article 20160168. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0168

Selection is expected to favour the evolution of flexible metabolic strategies, in response to environmental conditions. Here, we use a non-invasive index of basal metabolic rate (BMR), faecal thyroid hormone (T3) levels, to explore metabolic flexibi... Read More about Metabolic strategies in wild male Barbary macaques: evidence from faecal measurement of thyroid hormone.

Foraging with finesse: A hard-fruit-eating primate selects the weakest areas as bite sites (2016)
Journal Article
Barnett, A. A., Bezerra, B. M., Santos, P. J., Spironello, W. R., Shaw, P. J., MacLarnon, A., & Ross, C. (2016). Foraging with finesse: A hard-fruit-eating primate selects the weakest areas as bite sites. American journal of physical anthropology, 160(1), 113-125. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22935

Objectives: Fruit husks are rarely uniformly hard, varying in penetrability via sulci and changes in thickness. We tested whether a hard‐food specialist primate i) bites randomly on food fruit husk surfaces to access seeds, or ii) selects areas most... Read More about Foraging with finesse: A hard-fruit-eating primate selects the weakest areas as bite sites.

Emotion Evaluation and Response Slowing in a Non-Human Primate: New Directions for Cognitive Bias Measures of Animal Emotion? (2016)
Journal Article
Bethell, E. J., Holmes, A., MacLarnon, A., & Semple, S. (2016). Emotion Evaluation and Response Slowing in a Non-Human Primate: New Directions for Cognitive Bias Measures of Animal Emotion?. Behavioral Sciences, 6(1), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs6010002

The cognitive bias model of animal welfare assessment is informed by studies with humans demonstrating that the interaction between emotion and cognition can be detected using laboratory tasks. A limitation of cognitive bias tasks is the amount of tr... Read More about Emotion Evaluation and Response Slowing in a Non-Human Primate: New Directions for Cognitive Bias Measures of Animal Emotion?.

Functional morphology of the cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) mandible: a 3D geometric morphometric analysis (2015)
Journal Article
van Heteren, A. H., MacLarnon, A., Soligo, C., & Rae, T. C. (2016). Functional morphology of the cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) mandible: a 3D geometric morphometric analysis. Organisms Diversity & Evolution, 16(1), 299-314. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13127-015-0238-2

The diet of the fossil cave bears (Ursus spelaeus group) has been debated extensively. Thought traditionally to be herbivorous, more recent studies have proposed more meat in the cave bear diet. To test this, the mandibular morphology of cave bears w... Read More about Functional morphology of the cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) mandible: a 3D geometric morphometric analysis.

Ants in their plants: Pseudomyrmex ants reduce primate, parrot and squirrel predation on Macrolobium acaciifolium (Fabaceae) seeds in Amazonian Brazil (2015)
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Barnett, A. A., Almeida, T., Andrade, R., Boyle, S., de Lima, M. G., Maclarnon, A., …Ronchi-Teles, B. (2015). Ants in their plants: Pseudomyrmex ants reduce primate, parrot and squirrel predation on Macrolobium acaciifolium (Fabaceae) seeds in Amazonian Brazil. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 114(2), 260-273. https://doi.org/10.1111/bij.12425

Assessing adaptability and reactive scope: Introducing a new measure and illustrating its use through a case study of environmental stress in forest-living baboons (2014)
Journal Article
MacLarnon, A., Sommer, V., Goffe, A., Higham, J., Lodge, E., Tkaczynski, P., & Ross, C. (2015). Assessing adaptability and reactive scope: Introducing a new measure and illustrating its use through a case study of environmental stress in forest-living baboons. General and Comparative Endocrinology, 215, 10-24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2014.09.022

In order to maintain regulatory processes, animals are expected to be adapted to the range of environmental stressors usually encountered in their environmental niche. The available capacity of their stress responses is termed their reactive scope, w... Read More about Assessing adaptability and reactive scope: Introducing a new measure and illustrating its use through a case study of environmental stress in forest-living baboons.