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From the floodplain to the woodland (and back): baboon movement in the highly seasonal and heterogeneous ecosystem of Gorongosa National Park

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Movement ecology, or the study of how organisms move within their environments, has long been studied in multiple taxa, including primates. Within primates, the wide-ranging, terrestrial, group-living baboon has been studied both for insight into the primate clade, as well as a proxy for early hominins, with their behaviour and decisions presumed analogous to those of our human ancestors. Previous studies on these baboons have established the role of topographic mental maps, group decision ma...

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Zoology
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Institution:
University of Oxford
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SSD
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SAME
Sub department:
Social & Cultural Anthropology
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Supervisor
ORCID:
0000-0003-4542-3720
Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Biology
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DPhil
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Doctoral
Awarding institution:
University of Oxford


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