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Women's visibility in academic seminars: Women ask fewer questions than men by Carter, Alecia J, Croft, Alyssa, Lukas, Dieter, Sandstrom, Gillian M

“…The attrition of women in academic careers is a major concern, particularly in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics subjects. One factor that can…”
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Intraindividual variability of boldness is repeatable across contexts in a wild lizard by Highcock, Laura, Carter, Alecia J

“…Animals do not behave in exactly the same way when repeatedly tested in the same context or situation, even once systematic variation, such as habituation, has…”
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Exploring individual variation in associative learning abilities through an operant conditioning task in wild baboons by Martina, Claudia, Cowlishaw, Guy, Carter, Alecia J

“…Cognitive abilities underpin many of the behavioural decisions of animals. However, we still have very little understanding of how and why cognitive abilities…”
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Developmental transitions in body color in chacma baboon infants: Implications to estimate age and developmental pace by Dezeure, Jules, Dagorrette, Julie, Baniel, Alice, Carter, Alecia J., Cowlishaw, Guy, Marshall, Harry H., Martina, Claudia, Raby, Cassandra L., Huchard, Elise

“…Objectives In many primates, one of the most noticeable morphological developmental traits is the transition from natal fur and skin color to adult coloration…”
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Cycle length flexibility: is the duration of sexual receptivity associated with changes in social pressures? by Darmis, Fragkiskos, Huchard, Élise, Cowlishaw, Guy, Carter, Alecia J

“…Research in social mammals has revealed the complexity of strategies females use in response to female-female reproductive competition and sexual conflict. One…”
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Insights into the evolution of social systems and species from baboon studies by Fischer, Julia, Higham, James P, Alberts, Susan C, Barrett, Louise, Beehner, Jacinta C, Bergman, Thore J, Carter, Alecia J, Collins, Anthony, Elton, Sarah, Fagot, Joël, Ferreira da Silva, Maria Joana, Hammerschmidt, Kurt, Henzi, Peter, Jolly, Clifford J, Knauf, Sascha, Kopp, Gisela H, Rogers, Jeffrey, Roos, Christian, Ross, Caroline, Seyfarth, Robert M, Silk, Joan, Snyder-Mackler, Noah, Staedele, Veronika, Swedell, Larissa, Wilson, Michael L, Zinner, Dietmar

“…Baboons, members of the genus comprise six closely related species distributed throughout sub-Saharan Africa and southwest Arabia. The species exhibit more…”
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Baboon thanatology: responses of filial and non-filial group members to infants' corpses by Carter, Alecia J, Baniel, Alice, Cowlishaw, Guy, Huchard, Elise

“…What do animals know of death? What can animals' responses to death tell us about the evolution of species' minds, and the origins of humans' awareness of…”
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Correction: Women's visibility in academic seminars: Women ask fewer questions than men by Carter, Alecia J, Croft, Alyssa, Lukas, Dieter, Sandstrom, Gillian M

“…[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0202743.]…”
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Sequential phenotypic constraints on social information use in wild baboons by Carter, Alecia J, Torrents Ticó, Miquel, Cowlishaw, Guy

“…Social information allows the rapid dissemination of novel information among individuals. However, an individual's ability to use information is likely to be…”
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Taking a comparative approach: analysing personality as a multivariate behavioural response across species by Carter, Alecia J, Feeney, William E

“…Animal personality, repeatable behaviour through time and across contexts, is ecologically and evolutionarily important as it can account for the exhibition of…”
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Personality predicts the propensity for social learning in a wild primate by Carter, Alecia J, Marshall, Harry H, Heinsohn, Robert, Cowlishaw, Guy

“…Social learning can play a critical role in the reproduction and survival of social animals. Individual differences in the propensity for social learning are…”
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How do foragers decide when to leave a patch? A test of alternative models under natural and experimental conditions by Marshall, Harry H., Carter, Alecia J., Ashford, Alexandra, Rowcliffe, J. Marcus, Cowlishaw, Guy

“…1. A forager's optimal patch-departure time can be predicted by the prescient marginal value theorem (pMVT), which assumes they have perfect knowledge of the…”
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Animal personality: what are behavioural ecologists measuring? by Carter, Alecia J., Feeney, William E., Marshall, Harry H., Cowlishaw, Guy, Heinsohn, Robert

“…ABSTRACT The discovery that an individual may be constrained, and even behave sub‐optimally, because of its personality type has fundamental implications for…”
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Phenotypic assortment in wild primate networks: implications for the dissemination of information by Carter, Alecia J., Lee, Alexander E. G., Marshall, Harry H., Ticó, Miquel Torrents, Cowlishaw, Guy

“…Individuals' access to social information can depend on their social network. Homophily—a preference to associate with similar phenotypes—may cause assortment…”
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How not to measure boldness: novel object and antipredator responses are not the same in wild baboons by Carter, Alecia J., Marshall, Harry H., Heinsohn, Robert, Cowlishaw, Guy

“…Boldness in animal personality studies is measured using a range of different behavioural assays, including responses to novel objects, novel environments and…”
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Why do some primate mothers carry their infant's corpse? A cross-species comparative study by Fernández-Fueyo, Elisa, Sugiyama, Yukimaru, Matsui, Takeshi, Carter, Alecia J

“…Non-human primates respond to the death of a conspecific in diverse ways, some of which may present phylogenetic continuity with human thanatological…”
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Boldness, trappability and sampling bias in wild lizards by Carter, Alecia J., Heinsohn, Robert, Goldizen, Anne W., Biro, Peter A.

“…Many studies of animal personality are completed in the laboratory with animals collected from the wild. However, there is some concern that studies that trap…”
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Evolutionary Determinants of Nonseasonal Breeding in Wild Chacma Baboons by Dezeure, Jules, Burtschell, Lugdiwine, Baniel, Alice, Carter, Alecia J, Godelle, Bernard, Cowlishaw, Guy, Huchard, Elise

“…AbstractAnimal reproductive phenology varies from strongly seasonal to nonseasonal, sometimes among closely related or sympatric species. While the extent of…”
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Transition to siblinghood in a wild chacma baboon population by Delaunay, Axelle, Baniel, Alice, Dezeure, Jules, Carter, Alecia J., Cowlishaw, Guy, Charpentier, Marie J.E., Huchard, Elise

“…In monotocous mammals (i.e. where females produce one offspring at a time), most juveniles will experience the birth of a younger sibling in their life…”
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Social networks created with different techniques are not comparable by Castles, Madelaine, Heinsohn, Robert, Marshall, Harry H., Lee, Alexander E.G., Cowlishaw, Guy, Carter, Alecia J.

“…The recent application of social network analysis to animal populations has provided a tool to quantify group dynamics and individual social positions, which…”
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