Michael A Cant (M A Cant)

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Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2016-2024
Publications (10 Years): 29

Top Venues

Proceedings. Biological sciences

Ecology and evolution

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences

Nature communications

University of Exeter Cornwall Campus

University of Cambridge (PHD)

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Affiliation History

University of Exeter Cornwall Campus Mar 01 2013

United Kingdom

Professor of Evolutionary Biology :: Centre for Ecology and Conservation

University of Exeter Cornwall Campus Jan 01 2011 - Feb 28 2013

United Kingdom

Associate Professor :: Centre for Ecology and Conservation

University of Exeter Cornwall Campus Mar 01 2007 - Dec 31 2010

United Kingdom

Royal Society University Research Fellow :: Centre for Ecology and Conservation

University of Cambridge Jan 01 2003 - Feb 28 2007

United Kingdom

Royal Society University Research Fellow :: Zoology

Cornell University Jan 01 2001 - Dec 31 2002

United States

Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Research Fellow :: Neurobiology and Behavior

University College London Oct 01 1998 - Dec 31 2000

United Kingdom

Postdoctoral Research Fellow :: Biology

Education History

University of Cambridge Apr 01 1995 - Jul 21 1999

United Kingdom

PHD :: Zoology

Publications

K L Hunt, Matishalin Patel, Darren P Croft, D W Franks, P A Green, Faye J Thompson, R A Johnstone, Michael A Cant, Daniel W E Sankey
The evolution of democratic peace in animal societies. Nature communications 15 (1) (2024)
K L Hunt, Matishalin Patel, Darren P Croft, D W Franks, P A Green, Faye J Thompson, R A Johnstone, Michael A Cant, Daniel W E Sankey
The evolution of democratic peace in animal societies. Nature communications 15 (1) (2024)
Graham Birch, Hazel J Nichols, Francis Mwanguhya, Faye J Thompson, Michael A Cant, Jonathan D Blount
Lifetime trajectories of male mating effort under reproductive conflict in a cooperatively breeding mammal. Proceedings. Biological sciences 291 (2031) (2024)
Emma I K Vitikainen, Magali Meniri, Harry H Marshall, Faye J Thompson, R Businge, F Mwanguhya, S Kyabulima, K Mwesige, S Ahabonya, J L Sanderson, G Kalema-Zikusoka, Joseph Ivan Hoffman, David Arthur Wells, G Lewis, Susan L Walker, Hazel J Nichols, Jonathan D Blount, Michael A Cant
The social formation of fitness: lifetime consequences of prenatal nutrition and postnatal care in a wild mammal population. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 378 (1883) (2023)
Rebecca F B Padget, Michael A Cant, Faye J Thompson
Us, them, and the others: Testing for discrimination amongst outgroups in a single-piece nesting termite, Zootermopsis angusticollis . Ecology and evolution 13 (3) (2023)
Monil Khera, Kevin Arbuckle, Francis Mwanguhya, Solomon Kyabulima, Kenneth Mwesige, Robert Businge, Jonathan D Blount, Michael A Cant, Hazel J Nichols
Small increases in ambient temperature reduce offspring body mass in an equatorial mammal. Biology letters 19 (11) (2023)
Emma I K Vitikainen, Magali Meniri, Harry H Marshall, Faye J Thompson, R Businge, F Mwanguhya, S Kyabulima, K Mwesige, S Ahabonya, J L Sanderson, G Kalema-Zikusoka, Joseph Ivan Hoffman, David Arthur Wells, G Lewis, Susan L Walker, Hazel J Nichols, Jonathan D Blount, Michael A Cant
The social formation of fitness: lifetime consequences of prenatal nutrition and postnatal care in a wild mammal population. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 378 (1883) (2023)
Rebecca F B Padget, Michael A Cant, Faye J Thompson
Us, them, and the others: Testing for discrimination amongst outgroups in a single-piece nesting termite, Zootermopsis angusticollis . Ecology and evolution 13 (3) (2023)
Mia Lybkær Kronborg Nielsen, Samuel Ellis, Michael N Weiss, Jared R Towers, Thomas Doniol-Valcroze, Daniel W Franks, Michael A Cant, Graeme M Ellis, John K B Ford, Mark Malleson, Gary J Sutton, Tasli J H Shaw, Kenneth C Balcomb, David K Ellifrit, Darren P Croft
Temporal dynamics of mother-offspring relationships in Bigg's killer whales: opportunities for kin-directed help by post-reproductive females. Proceedings. Biological sciences 290 (2000) (2023)
Emma I K Vitikainen, Magali Meniri, Harry H Marshall, Faye J Thompson, R Businge, F Mwanguhya, S Kyabulima, K Mwesige, S Ahabonya, J L Sanderson, G Kalema-Zikusoka, Joseph Ivan Hoffman, David Arthur Wells, G Lewis, Susan L Walker, Hazel J Nichols, Jonathan D Blount, Michael A Cant
The social formation of fitness: lifetime consequences of prenatal nutrition and postnatal care in a wild mammal population. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 378 (1883) (2023)
Samuel Ellis, Rufus A Johnstone, Michael A Cant, Daniel W Franks, Michael N Weiss, Susan C Alberts, Kenneth C Balcomb, Claire H Benton, Lauren J N Brent, Catherine Crockford, Eve Davidian, Richard J Delahay, David K Ellifrit, Oliver P Höner, Magali Meniri, Robbie A McDonald, Hazel J Nichols, Faye J Thompson, Linda Vigilant, Roman M Wittig, Darren P Croft
Patterns and consequences of age-linked change in local relatedness in animal societies. Nature ecology & evolution 6 (11) (2022)
Daniel W E Sankey, K L Hunt, Darren P Croft, D W Franks, Patrick A Green, Faye J Thompson, R A Johnstone, Michael A Cant
Leaders of war: modelling the evolution of conflict among heterogeneous groups. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 377 (1851) (2022)
Patrick A Green, Faye J Thompson, Michael A Cant
Fighting force and experience combine to determine contest success in a warlike mammal. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119 (25) (2022)
Magali Meniri, Elsa Evans, Faye J Thompson, Harry H Marshall, Hazel J Nichols, Gina Lewis, Lauren Holt, Emma Davey, Christopher Mitchell, Rufus A Johnstone, Michael A Cant, Jonathan D Blount
Untangling the oxidative cost of reproduction: An analysis in wild banded mongooses. Ecology and evolution 12 (3) (2022)
Hazel J Nichols, Kevin Arbuckle, Jennifer L Sanderson, Emma I K Vitikainen, Harry H Marshall, Faye J Thompson, Michael A Cant, David Arthur Wells
A double pedigree reveals genetic but not cultural inheritance of cooperative personalities in wild banded mongooses. Ecology letters 24 (9) (2021)
Harry H Marshall, R A Johnstone, Faye J Thompson, Hazel J Nichols, David Arthur Wells, J I Hoffman, G Kalema-Zikusoka, J L Sanderson, Emma I K Vitikainen, J D Blount, Michael A Cant
A veil of ignorance can promote fairness in a mammal society. Nature communications 12 (1) (2021)
Rufus A Johnstone, Michael A Cant, Dominic L Cram, Faye J Thompson
Exploitative leaders incite intergroup warfare in a social mammal. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117 (47) (2020)
David Arthur Wells, Michael A Cant, Joseph Ivan Hoffman, Hazel J Nichols
Inbreeding depresses altruism in a cooperative society. Ecology letters 23 (10) (2020)
Elizabeth F R Preston, Faye J Thompson, Samuel Ellis, Solomon Kyambulima, Darren P Croft, Michael A Cant
Network-level consequences of outgroup threats in banded mongooses: Grooming and aggression between the sexes. The Journal of animal ecology 90 (1) (2020)
Siobhán O'Brien, Adela M Luján, Steve Paterson, Michael A Cant, Angus Buckling
Adaptation to public goods cheats in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Proceedings. Biological sciences 284 (1859) (2018)
Faye J Thompson, Michael A Cant
Dynamic conflict among heterogeneous groups: a comment on Christensen and Radford. Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology 29 (5) (2018)
Emma I K Vitikainen, Harry H Marshall, Faye J Thompson, Jenni L Sanderson, Matthew B V Bell, Jason S Gilchrist, Sarah J Hodge, Hazel J Nichols, Michael A Cant
Biased escorts: offspring sex, not relatedness explains alloparental care patterns in a cooperative breeder. Proceedings. Biological sciences 284 (1854) (2018)
Samuel Ellis, Daniel W Franks, Stuart Nattrass, Michael A Cant, Destiny L Bradley, Deborah Giles, Kenneth C Balcomb, Darren P Croft
Postreproductive lifespans are rare in mammals. Ecology and evolution 8 (5) (2018)
Samuel Ellis, D W Franks, S Nattrass, Michael A Cant, M N Weiss, D Giles, K C Balcomb, D P Croft
Mortality risk and social network position in resident killer whales: sex differences and the importance of resource abundance. Proceedings. Biological sciences 284 (1865) (2018)
J Mitchell, S Kyabulima, R Businge, Michael A Cant, Hazel J Nichols
Kin discrimination via odour in the cooperatively breeding banded mongoose. Royal Society open science 5 (3) (2018)
J Mitchell, Michael A Cant, Hazel J Nichols
Pregnancy is detected via odour in a wild cooperative breeder. Biology letters 13 (11) (2018)
David Arthur Wells, Michael A Cant, Hazel J Nichols, Joseph Ivan Hoffman
A high-quality pedigree and genetic markers both reveal inbreeding depression for quality but not survival in a cooperative mammal. Molecular ecology 27 (9) (2018)
Katy Scott, Michael Heistermann, Michael A Cant, Emma I K Vitikainen
Group size and visitor numbers predict faecal glucocorticoid concentrations in zoo meerkats. Royal Society open science 4 (4) (2017)
Feargus Cooney, Emma I K Vitikainen, Harry H Marshall, Wilmie van Rooyen, Robert L Smith, Michael A Cant, Nicole Goodey
Lack of aggression and apparent altruism towards intruders in a primitive termite. Royal Society open science 3 (11) (2016)

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