Infanticide is a common phenomenon, usually caused by polygynous males taking over a harem with unrelated infants. Hilário & Ferrari (2010) describe rwo incidences of infanticide in a free-ranging group of
buffy-head marmosets (Callithrix flaviceps) in 2008, the first observed incidence in this species. Over a 10-day period, 4 females within the group gave birth, with the infanticides occurring on the third and sixth days. The perpetrator in the first incident was unknown, but the socially dominant breeding female is likely to have caused both as she was observed ingesting the second infant's head. The behaviour appears typical of marmosets in general. The strategy of the socially dominant breeding female attacking offspring of subordinates is likely aimed at reducing competition for caregivers.
Striped mouse
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Publications
- Maxwell, S. J., Hernandez Duran, L. C., Rowell, M. K., & Rymer, T. L. (2021). An iconography of extant Gibberulus Jousseaume, 1888 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Strombidae), and the introduction of a new species from the southwestern Pacific. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 134(1), 89-115.
- Maxwell, S. J., Rymer, T. L., Rowell, M. K., Hernandez Duran, L. C., Berschauer, D. P., Underdown, M., ... & Dekkers, A. M. (2021). Defining and bringing relevance of meaning to species group-level taxa. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 134(1), 27-28.
- Maxwell, S. J., Watt, J., Rymer, T. L., & Congdon, B. B. (2021). A checklist of near-shore strombidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Neostromboidae) on Green Island, Queensland. Biogeographia–The Journal of Integrative Biogeography, 36.
- Delarue, E. M., Kerr, S. E., & Rymer, T. L. (2020). Habitat and sex effects on behaviour in fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rats (Melomys cervinipes). Australian Mammalogy, 43(3), 319-329.
- Duran, L. H., Rymer, T. L., & Wilson, D. T. (2020). Variation in venom composition in the Australian funnel-web spiders Hadronyche valida. Toxicon: X, 8, 100063.
- Maxwell, S. J., Congdon, B. C., & Rymer, T. L. (2020). Essentialistic pluralism: The theory of spatio-temporal positioning of species using integrated taxonomy. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, The, 124, 81-97.
- Maxwell, S. J., Dekkers, A. M., Rymer, T. L. & Congdon, B. C. (2020). Towards resolving the American and West African Strombidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Neostromboidae) using integrated taxonomy. The Festivus 52: 3-38.
- Maxwell, S. J., Rowell, M. K., Hernandez Duran, L. C., & Rymer, T. L. (2020). Population structure of'Canarium labiatum'(Roding, 1798)(Mollusca: Neostromboidae: Strombidae) on green Island, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, The, 128, 15-22.
- Maxwell, S. J., Rymer, T. L., & Dekkers, A. M. (2020). Canarium urceus (Linné, 1758) studies Part 1: The Recircumscription of Strombus urceus Linné, 1758 (Neostromboidae: Strombidae). The Festivus 52 (2): 113-127.
- Maxwell, S. J., Rymer, T. L., Congdon, B. C., & Dekkers, A. M. (2020). Studies in Canarium urceus (Linné, 1758) Part 2: Strombus anatellus Duclos, 1844, Strombus crassilabrum Anton, 1839, Strombus incisus Wood, 1828 and Strombus ustulatus form laevis Dodge, 1946 (Neostromboidae: Strombidae). The Festivus, 52(4), 335-344.
- Rowell, M. K. & Rymer, T. L. (2020). Innovation in a native Australian rodent, the fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat (Melomys cervinipes). Animal Cognition 23: 301-310.
- Rowell, M. K., & Rymer, T. L. (2020). Growth and behavioural development of the fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat (Melomys cervinipes). Australian Mammalogy, 43(3), 330-334.
- Rymer, T. L. (2020). The role of olfactory genes in the expression of rodent paternal care behavior. Genes 11: 292.
- Maxwell, S. J., Bordon, A. V., Rymer, T. L. & Congdon, B. C. (2019). The birth of a species and the validity of hybrid nomenclature demonstrated with a revision of hybrid taxa within Strombidae (Neostromboidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 132: 119-130.
- Rowell, M. K. & Rymer, T. L. (2020). Rodentia Cognition. In: Vonk J., Shackelford T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. Springer, Cham
- Maxwell, S. J., Dekkers, A. M., Rymer, T. L. & Congdon, B. C. (2019). Recognising and defining a new crown clade within Stromboidea Rafinesque, 1815 (Mollusca, Gastropoda). ZooKeys 867: 1-7.
- Maxwell, S. J., Dekkers, A. M., Rymer, T. L. & Congdon, B. C. (2019). Laevistrombus Abbott 1960 (Gastropoda: Strombidae): Indian and southwest Pacific species. Zootaxa 4555: 491-506.
- Paulling, K., Wilson, D. & Rymer, T. L. (2019). Olfactory recognition of snake cues by fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rats Melomys cervinipes. Behaviour 156: 1235-1253.
- Rymer, T. L. (2019). Parental Investment. In: Vonk J., Shackelford T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. Springer, Cham
- Callaway, W. A., Turner, A. A., Croshaw, O. B., Ferguson, J. A., Julson, Z. J.-N., Volp, T. M., Kerr, S. E. & Rymer, T. L. (2018). Melomys cervinipes (Rodentia: Muridae). Mammalian Species 50: 134-147.
- Maxwell, S. J., Congdon, B. C. & Rymer, T. L. (2018). A new species of Paraseraphs (Gastropoda, Seraphsidae) from the Priabonian White Limestone Formation of Jamaica. Paleontological Journal 52: 37-39.
- Maxwell, S. J., Liverani, V., Rymer, T. L. & Congdon, B. C. (2018). A revision of Terebellum delicatulum Kuroda and Kawamoto in Kawamoto and Tanabe, 1956 (Gastropoda, Seraphsidae). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 123: 61-67.
- Rymer, T. L. & Pillay, N. (2018). An integrated understanding of paternal care in mammals: lessons from the rodents. Journal of Zoology 306: 69-76.
- Maxwell, S. J., Rymer, T. L. & Congdon, B. C. (2017). Sex-ratio bias in Laevistrombus canarium Linné, 1758 (Gastropoda: Strombidae) from Far North Queensland, Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 60:133-138.
- Pillay, N. & Rymer, T. L. (2017). Behavioural correlates of group size and group persistence in the African ice rat Otomys sloggetti robertsi. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 71:62.
- Pillay, N. & Rymer, T. L. (2017). Preference for Outbreeding in Inbred Littledale’s Whistling Rats Parotomys littledalei. Evoutionary Biology 44:21-30.
- Preece, D.,...Rymer, T. L. et al. (2017). A guide for ecologists: Detecting the role of disease in faunal declines and managing population recovery. Biological Conservation 214:136-146.
- Maxwell, S. J. & Rymer, T. L. (2016). Commercially driven taxonomy: the necessity of knowing species. The Festivus 48: 52-53.
- Maxwell, S. J., Congdon, B. C. & Rymer, T. L. (2016). A new species of Vasticardium (Bivalvia: Cardiidae) from Queensland, Australia. The Festivus 48:248-252.
- Pillay, N., Rimbach, R. & Rymer, T. L. (2016). Pre- and postnatal dietary protein deficiency influences anxiety, memory and social behaviour in the African striped mouse Rhabdomys dilectus chakae. Physiology & Behavior 161: 38-46.
- Rymer, T. L., Pillay, N. & Schradin, C. (2016). Resilience to droughts in mammals: a conceptual framework for estimating vulnerability of a single species. The Quarterly Review of Biology 91: 133-176.
- Delarue, E.M.P., Kerr, S.E., Rymer, T.L. (2015). Habitat complexity, environmental change and personality: A tropical perspective. Behavioural Processes 120: 101-110.
- Pillay, N. & Rymer, T. L. (2015). Alloparenting enhances the emotional, social and cognitive performance of female African striped mice, Rhabdomys pumilio. Animal Behaviour 99: 43-52.
- Mackay, M., Rymer, T. L. & Pillay, N. (2014). Separation at weaning from the family is stressful for naturally group-living, but not solitary-living, male African striped mice Rhabdomys. Stress 17: 266-274.
- Rymer, T. L. & Pillay, N. (2014). Alloparental care in the African striped mouse Rhabdomys pumilio is age-dependent and influences the development of paternal care. Ethology 120: 11-20.
- Rymer, T. L., Thomson, R. L. & Whiting, M. J. (2014). At home with the birds: Kalahari tree skinks associate with sociable weaver nests despite African pygmy falcon presence. Austral Ecology 39: 839-847.
- Hinze, A., Rymer, T. & Pillay, N. (2013). Spatial dichotomy of sociality in the African ice rat. Journal of Zoology, London 290: 208-214.
- Rymer, T.L. & Pillay, N. (2013). Maternal care in the African striped mouse Rhabdomys pumilio: a behaviourally flexible phenotype that is modified by experience. Developmental Psychobiology 55: 265-274.
- Rymer, T. L., Pillay, N. & Schradin, C. (2013). Extinction or survival? Behavioral flexibility in response to environmental change in the African striped mouse Rhabdomys. Sustainability 5: 163-186.
- Chapman, T., Rymer, T. & Pillay, N. (2012). Behavioural correlates of urbanisation in the Cape ground squirrel Xerus inauris. Naturwissenschaften 99: 893-902.
- Pillay, N. & Rymer, T. L. (2012). Behavioural divergence, interfertility and speciation: a review. Behavioural Processes 91: 223-235.
- Rymer, T. L. & Pillay, N. (2012). The development of exploratory behaviour in the African striped mouse Rhabdomys reflects a gene x enviroment compromise. Behavior Genetics 42: 845-856.
- Rymer, T. & Pillay, N. (2011). Transmission of parental care behaviour in African striped mice, Rhabdomys pumilio. Journal of Experimental Zoology 315: 631-638.
- Rymer, T. L. & Pillay, N. (2011). The influence of the early rearing environment on the development of paternal care in African striped mice. Ethology 117: 284-293.
- Rymer, T. & Pillay, N. (2010). Female mate choice for paternal care behaviour in African striped mice Rhabdomys pumilio: the role of experience. Behaviour 147: 1101-1119
- Rymer, T., Schradin, C. & Pillay, N. (2008). Social transmission of information about novel food in two populations of the African striped mouse, Rhabdomys pumilio. Animal Behaviour 76: 1297-1304
- Rymer, T. L., Kinahan, A. A. & Pillay, N. (2007). Fur characteristics of the African ice rat Otomys sloggetti robertsi: Modifications for an alpine existence. Journal of Thermal Biology 32: 428-432
- Maxwell, S. J., & Rymer, T. L. (2021). Are the ICZN and PhyloCode that incompatible? A summary of the shifts in Stromboidean taxonomy and the definition of two new subfamilies in Stromboidae (Mollusca, Neostromboidae). The Festivus, 53(1), 44-51.
- Rowell, M. K., Pillay, N., & Rymer, T. L. (2021). Problem solving in animals: proposal for an ontogenetic perspective. Animals, 11(3), 866.
- Hernandez Duran, L., Wilson, D. T., Briffa, M., & Rymer, T. L. (2021). Beyond spider personality: The relationships between behavioral, physiological, and environmental factors. Ecology and Evolution, 11(7), 2974-2989.
- Pillay, N., & Rymer, T. L. (2021). Sons benefit from paternal care in African striped mice. Developmental Psychobiology, 63(4), 662-675.
- Rymer, T. L., Cruise, M., & Pillay, N. (2021). Decision-making by bushveld gerbils (Gerbilliscus leucogaster). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 135(2), 244.
- Maxwell, S. J., Rymer, T. L., & Congdon, B. C. (2021). Resolving phylogenetic and classical nomenclature: A revision of Seraphsidae Jung, 1974 (Gastropoda: Neostromboidae). Zootaxa, 4990(3), 401-453.
- Rowell, M. K., & Rymer, T. L. (2021). Exploration influences problem solving in the fawn‐footed mosaic‐tailed rat (Melomys cervinipes). Ethology, 127(7), 592-604.
- Maxwell, S. J., Rymer, T. L., & Watt, J. (2021). Field Notes on Sex-Bias in Gibberulus dekkersi Maxwell, Hernandez Duran, Rowell & Rymer, 2021 (Gastropoda: Neostromboidae: Strombidae) on the Great Barrier Reef. Pacific Science, 75(4), 525-530.
- Rowell, M. K., Santymire, R. M., & Rymer, T. L. (2021). Corticosterone Metabolite Concentration Is Not Related to Problem Solving in the Fawn-Footed Mosaic-Tailed Rat Melomys Cervinipes. Animals, 12(1), 82.
- Maxwell, S. J., Rymer, T. L., & Congdon, B. C. (2021). A theoretical composite model for population sex-specific shell size dynamics in Strombidae (Gastropoda, Neostromboidae). Journal of Natural History, 55(41-42), 2661-2672.
Striped mouse (Rhabdomys pumilio) on the cover of the August edition of Behaviour
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My photo and the accompanying paper (see List of publications) were published in this issue.
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