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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Timothy M. Caro is a British evolutionary ecologist known for his work on conservation biology, animal behaviour, anti-predator defences in animals, and the function of zebra stripes. He is the author of several textbooks on these subjects.
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Published Works
- Antipredator Defenses in Birds and Mammals (2005) (1003)
- Interspecific Killing among Mammalian Carnivores (1999) (961)
- On the Use of Surrogate Species in Conservation Biology (1999) (922)
- Top Predators as Conservation Tools: Ecological Rationale, Assumptions, and Efficacy (2008) (537)
- Is There Teaching in Nonhuman Animals? (1992) (509)
- The Adaptive Significance of Coloration in Mammals (2005) (415)
- The biology of color (2017) (410)
- Cheetahs of the Serengeti Plains: Group Living in an Asocial Species (1994) (386)
- On the Functions of Play and Its Role in Behavioral Development (1985) (361)
- Ecological and genetic factors in conservation: a cautionary tale. (1994) (350)
- Behavioral ecology and conservation biology (1998) (311)
- The potential for interspecific competition among African carnivores (2003) (268)
- Conserving large carnivores: dollars and fence. (2013) (265)
- Effects of Trophy Hunting on Lion and Leopard Populations in Tanzania (2011) (233)
- Flagship species on covers of US conservation and nature magazines (2008) (231)
- Behavior and conservation: a bridge too far? (2007) (228)
- Worldwide prevalence of lentivirus infection in wild feline species: epidemiologic and phylogenetic aspects (1992) (196)
- Conservation in the Anthropocene (2012) (189)
- East African cheetahs: evidence for two population bottlenecks? (1987) (184)
- Organization and ontogeny of alternative tactics (1986) (176)
- Umbrella species: critique and lessons from East Africa (2003) (161)
- Pursuit-deterrence revisited. (1995) (155)
- Adaptive significance of antipredator behaviour in artiodactyls (2004) (151)
- The functions of stotting in Thomson's gazelles: some tests of the predictions (1986) (150)
- Densities of mammals in partially protected areas: the Katavi ecosystem of western Tanzania (1999) (142)
- Preliminary assessment of the flagship species concept at a small scale (2004) (141)
- Effects of the mother, object play, and adult experience on predation in cats. (1980) (138)
- Assessment of Effectiveness of Protection Strategies in Tanzania Based on a Decade of Survey Data for Large Herbivores (2007) (135)
- Species richness and abundance of small mammals inside and outside an African national park (2001) (134)
- Contrasting coloration in terrestrial mammals (2009) (130)
- Ecological and behavioral correlates of coloration in artiodactyls: systematic analyses of conventional hypotheses (2003) (129)
- Inter-Observer Reliability (1979) (128)
- The adaptive significance of coloration in lagomorphs (2003) (128)
- Woody vegetation structure and composition along a protection gradient in a miombo ecosystem of western Tanzania (2006) (127)
- Demography of the Serengeti cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) population: the first 25 years (1998) (121)
- Cheetahs and wild dogs show contrasting patterns of suppression by lions. (2014) (119)
- The Use of Quantitative Observational Techniques in Anthropology [and Comments and Replies] (1985) (117)
- The problem of adaptation in the study of human behavior (1987) (115)
- Similarity in ejaculate-endocrine characteristics in captive versus free-ranging cheetahs of two subspecies. (1987) (113)
- Vegetation in Tanzania : assessing long term trends and effects of protection using satellite imagery (2000) (110)
- Physiology, Behavior, and Conservation* (2013) (102)
- Changes in large herbivore populations across large areas of Tanzania (2007) (94)
- Estimating Carnivore Densities for Conservation Purposes: Indirect Methods Compared to Baseline Demographic Data (1996) (93)
- Conservation Value of Multiple‐Use Areas in East Africa (2007) (88)
- Correlates of horn and antler shape in bovids and cervids (2003) (88)
- Unit flesh weights of some East African bovids (1986) (87)
- The function of zebra stripes (2014) (86)
- Factors affecting life and death in Serengeti cheetahs: environment, age, and sociality (2004) (86)
- Endangered species and a threatened discipline: behavioural ecology. (2011) (85)
- Evolution of weaponry in female bovids (2009) (85)
- When protection falters (2007) (84)
- Animal breeding systems and big game hunting: Models and application (2009) (82)
- Two roles for ecological surrogacy: Indicator surrogates and management surrogates (2016) (82)
- The functions of stotting: a review of the hypotheses (1986) (81)
- Termination of reproduction in nonhuman and human female primates (1995) (80)
- A new framework for selecting environmental surrogates. (2015) (80)
- Consequences of different forms of conservation for large mammals in Tanzania: preliminary analyses (1998) (80)
- To flee or not to flee: predator avoidance by cheetahs at kills (2007) (77)
- Ungulate Antipredator Behaviour: Preliminary and Comparative Data From African Bovids (1994) (77)
- Realities of documenting wildlife corridors in tropical countries (2009) (77)
- Male Cheetah Social Organization and Territoriality (2010) (76)
- Decline of large mammals in the Katavi-Rukwa ecosystem of western Tanzania (2008) (75)
- Use of Substitute Species in Conservation Biology (2005) (75)
- Interspecific competition and predation in American carnivore families (2008) (73)
- Assessing the sustainability of harvest of Pterocarpus angolensis in Rukwa Region, Tanzania (2002) (72)
- Short-term costs and correlates of play in cheetahs (1995) (70)
- The impact of tourist hunting on large mammals in Tanzania: an initial assessment (1998) (69)
- Tail-flagging and other antipredator signals in white-tailed deer: new data and synthesis (1995) (67)
- The Pleistocene re-wilding gambit. (2007) (66)
- Patterns of scavenger arrival at cheetah kills in Serengeti National Park Tanzania (2007) (66)
- Abundance and distribution of mammals in Katavi National Park, Tanzania (1999) (66)
- The effects of experience on the predatory patterns of cats. (1980) (65)
- Demography and behaviour of African mammals subject to exploitation (1999) (65)
- Adaptive significance of play: Are we getting closer? (1988) (65)
- Compromise solutions between conservation and road building in the tropics (2014) (63)
- The Role of Research in Evaluating Conservation Strategies in Tanzania: the Case of the Katavi‐Rukwa Ecosystem (2007) (63)
- Frequency of Medium-sized Mammal Road Kills in an Agricultural Landscape in California (2000) (63)
- Effect of selective logging on tree and understory regeneration in miombo woodland in western Tanzania (2003) (58)
- BOLD COLORATION AND THE EVOLUTION OF APOSEMATISM IN TERRESTRIAL CARNIVORES (2011) (57)
- Guidelines for Wildlife Monitoring: Savannah Herbivores (2016) (56)
- Assessing the effectiveness of protected areas: paradoxes call for pluralism in evaluating conservation performance (2009) (56)
- Extrinsic Factors and Juvenile Mortality in Cheetahs. (1995) (56)
- Recruitment of Pterocarpus angolensis in the wild (2005) (54)
- Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Abundance and Diversity of an East African Leaf Litter Amphibian Fauna (2007) (53)
- The ecology of multiple colour defences (2016) (53)
- Coloration in Mammals. (2020) (52)
- Predatory Behaviour and Social Play in Kittens (1981) (52)
- Effects of Conservation Biology Education on Attitudes Toward Nature (1994) (52)
- How effective are the protected areas of East Africa? (2019) (51)
- Predatory Behaviour in Domestic Cat Mothers (1980) (51)
- Why is the giant panda black and white? (2017) (50)
- The colours of extant mammals. (2013) (49)
- Factors Affecting Bushmeat Consumption in the Katavi-Rukwa Ecosystem of Tanzania (2012) (48)
- Effects of conservation education on reasons to conserve biological diversity (2003) (47)
- Factors Affecting the Small Mammal Community Inside and Outside Katavi National Park, Tanzania1 (2002) (47)
- Eighteen reasons animal behaviourists avoid involvement in conservation (2013) (46)
- Cheetah mothers' vigilance: looking out for prey or for predators? (1987) (46)
- Ecological characteristics of territories of male cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) (1987) (46)
- The woodland vegetation of the Katavi-Rukwa ecosystem in western Tanzania (2008) (44)
- Remarkable Rates of Lightning Strike Mortality in Malawi (2012) (44)
- Conservation monitoring: estimating mammal densities in woodland habitats (1999) (44)
- Behavioral solutions to breeding cheetahs in captivity: insights from the wild (1993) (44)
- Structural connectivity at a national scale: Wildlife corridors in Tanzania (2017) (43)
- Butterfly species richness and abundance in the Katavi ecosystem of western Tanzania (2006) (42)
- Use of Quantitative Analyses of Pelage Characteristics to Reveal Family Resemblances in Genetically Monomorphic Cheetahs (1991) (42)
- Vanishing behaviors (2012) (42)
- Bushmeat Consumption in Western Tanzania: A Comparative Analysis from the Same Ecosystem (2012) (42)
- The functional significance of colouration in cetaceans (2011) (42)
- Monitoring the effects of non-trivial handling in free-living cheetahs (1994) (41)
- Edge effects and large mammal distributions in a national park (2013) (40)
- Wildlife and wildlife management in Tanzania (2016) (39)
- Knowledge and attitudes of children of the Rupununi: Implications for conservation in Guyana (2009) (39)
- Interspecific visual signalling in animals and plants: a functional classification (2017) (38)
- On the merits and feasibility of wildlife monitoring for conservation: a case study from Katavi National Park, Tanzania (2011) (37)
- Illegal hunting in the Katavi‐Rukwa ecosystem (2013) (36)
- Wallace on Coloration: Contemporary Perspective and Unresolved Insights. (2017) (34)
- Antipredator deception in terrestrial vertebrates (2014) (34)
- Sex differences in the termination of social play in cats (1981) (33)
- ECOLOGICAL DRIVERS OF ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSES IN CARNIVORES (2014) (31)
- Benefits of zebra stripes: Behaviour of tabanid flies around zebras and horses (2019) (30)
- Animal coloration research: why it matters (2017) (30)
- The function of contrasting pelage markings in artiodactyls (2010) (30)
- Lion populations may be declining in Africa but not as Bauer et al. suggest (2015) (29)
- Zebra Stripes through the Eyes of Their Predators, Zebras, and Humans (2016) (29)
- Aposematism: Unpacking the Defences. (2019) (29)
- Pelage coloration in pinnipeds: functional considerations (2012) (29)
- The significance of behavioral ecology for conservation biology (1998) (28)
- Behavioural indicators of exploitation (2005) (28)
- Prey preferences of bushmeat hunters in an East African savannah ecosystem (2012) (28)
- Observations on the ranging behaviour and daily activity of lone silverback mountain gorillas (Gorilla gorilla beringei) (1976) (28)
- Habitat preferences of small mammals in the Katavi ecosystem of western Tanzania (2007) (27)
- Effects of fire on germination of Pterocarpus angolensis (2006) (27)
- Health of adult free‐living cheetahs (1987) (26)
- Large Carnivores and their Prey: the Quick and the Dead (2009) (25)
- Are spotted skunks conspicuous or cryptic? (2013) (24)
- Flash behavior increases prey survival (2018) (24)
- Sensitivity of Africa’s larger mammals to humans (2018) (24)
- An inconvenient misconception: Climate change is not the principal driver of biodiversity loss (2022) (24)
- Indirect costs of play: Cheetah cubs reduce maternal hunting success (1987) (24)
- 4. The Adaptive Significance of Color Patterns in Carnivores: Phylogenetic Tests of Classic Hypotheses (2019) (23)
- The reproductive advantages of fat in women (1990) (23)
- The functional significance of coloration in crabs (2018) (22)
- Foraging costs in social carnivores (1997) (22)
- Human breasts: Unsupported hypotheses reviewed (1987) (20)
- Physiological costs of behavioural strategies for male cheetahs (1989) (20)
- From avengers to hunters: Leveraging collective action for the conservation of endangered lions (2014) (19)
- Rewilding can cause rather than solve ecological problems (2009) (19)
- The Big 5 and conservation (2013) (18)
- The evolution of anterior coloration in carnivorans (2017) (18)
- Integrating Research with Management: The Case of Katavi National Park, Tanzania (2013) (18)
- Zebra stripes (2020) (18)
- A Primer of Conservation Behavior Daniel T. Blumstein Esteban (2011) (17)
- Behavior and conservation, conservation and behavior (2016) (16)
- How size and conspicuousness affect the efficacy of flash coloration (2019) (15)
- Conservation and behavior of Africa’s “Big Five” (2014) (15)
- Low density of small mammals at Las Cuevas, Belize (2003) (14)
- Focal Species (2000) (14)
- Cheetahs modify their prey handling behavior depending on risks from top predators (2018) (14)
- The evolution of primate coloration revisited (2021) (14)
- Towards an ecology of protective coloration (2020) (14)
- Colour polymorphism in the coconut crab (Birgus latro) (2018) (14)
- A record of cheetah scavenging in the Serengeti (1982) (13)
- Modelling habitat conversion in miombo woodlands: insights from Tanzania (2017) (11)
- The Consequences of Internal Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Case Study (2017) (11)
- Zebras and Biting Flies: Quantitative Analysis of Reflected Light from Zebra Coats in Their Natural Habitat (2016) (11)
- Comparative Aspects of Behavioural Development in Two Species of Free-Living Hyrax (1985) (11)
- Concordance on zebra stripes: a comment on Larison et al. (2015) (2015) (11)
- Animal coloration: production, perception, function and application (2017) (10)
- Animal Camouflage: The functions of black-and-white coloration in mammals (2011) (10)
- Roads through National Parks: A Successful Case Study (2015) (10)
- The giant panda is cryptic (2021) (9)
- Zebra stripes, tabanid biting flies and the aperture effect (2020) (9)
- Cheetah mothers bias parental investment in favour of cooperating sons (1990) (9)
- Behavior and Communication of Free-Ranging Cheetahs (2017) (9)
- Conservation of the Black-Tailed Prairie Dog: Saving North America's Western Grasslands, by Hoogland, J. L. (ed.) (2007) (9)
- Biodiversity loss due to more than climate change. (2021) (9)
- Risk of injury and death from lightning in Northern Malawi (2012) (9)
- Can behavioural ecologists help establish protected areas? (2019) (9)
- Chelonian Antipredator Strategies: Preliminary and Comparative Data from Tanzanian Pelusios (2010) (8)
- Controversial cheetahs? (1995) (8)
- Missing links in predator and antipredator behaviour (1989) (8)
- Polygyny: Definition and application to human data (1983) (8)
- It's a Dog's Life (2002) (8)
- Top‐Down Control in Tropical Forests 1 (1997) (8)
- Original investigation Diversity of mammals in the Bladen Nature Reserve, Belize, and factors affecting their trapping success (2001) (7)
- Anthropocene: keep the guard up (2013) (7)
- The many paths to wildlife conservation in Africa (1986) (7)
- Flash behavior in mammals? (2020) (6)
- Small mammal survey of Chiquibul Forest Reserve, Maya Mountains, Belize, 2001 / (2012) (6)
- Human responses to changing environments: a comment on Wong and Candolin (2015) (6)
- Investigating colouration in large and rare mammals: the case of the giant anteater (2012) (6)
- A silver lining to REDD: Institutional growth despite programmatic failure (2020) (6)
- Biodiversity: need for balanced reports of solutions and failures (2010) (6)
- Reptiles of Katavi National Park, western Tanzania, are from different biomes (2011) (5)
- Looking up and down: Strong collaboration is only the first step in tackling parachute science (2022) (5)
- Aposematism and mimicry in birds (2021) (5)
- Ecocorrelates of pelage coloration in pigs and peccaries (2018) (5)
- 25. Cheetahs and Their Mating System (2002) (5)
- The forgotten link between northern and southern Tanzania (2018) (4)
- Avifauna of the Katavi-Rukwa Ecosystem, Tanzania (2009) (4)
- Does REDD+ have a chance? Implications from Pemba, Tanzania (2020) (4)
- The dynamics of serengeti research. (1992) (4)
- Lions, Bylaws, and Conservation Metrics (2019) (4)
- Aposematism in mammals (2021) (4)
- Who reads nowadays?: a comment on Berger-Tal et al. (2018) (4)
- Intersexual selection and cooption (1985) (4)
- Relations between Kitten Behaviour and Adult Predation (2010) (4)
- The colours of animals: from Wallace to the present day. I. Cryptic coloration (2008) (4)
- Conservation in the African Anthropocene (2015) (3)
- Colour polymorphism and protective coloration in coconut crabs (2019) (3)
- Behavioural ecology cannot profit from unstructured environmental change (2011) (3)
- Correction: Zebra Stripes through the Eyes of Their Predators, Zebras, and Humans (2016) (3)
- Correlates of color polymorphism in coconut crabs Birgus latro. (2018) (3)
- Incipient signs of genetic differentiation among African elephant populations in fragmenting miombo ecosystems in south-western Tanzania (2017) (3)
- When animal coloration is a poor match (2020) (3)
- Savannas are vital but overlooked carbon sinks. (2022) (3)
- How community forest management performs when REDD+ payments fail (2022) (3)
- Species loss: climate plan saves only trees (2016) (2)
- Concealing Coloration in Animals. By Judy Diamond and Alan B. Bond. Cambridge (Massachusetts): Harvard University Press. $29.95. x + 271 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-0-674-05235-2. 2013. (2014) (2)
- Animal Coloration in the Anthropocene (2022) (2)
- Pig pigmentation: testing Gloger's rule (2022) (2)
- The development of predation in cats (1979) (2)
- Leaping in impala (2008) (2)
- Efficacy of land use designation in protecting habitat in the miombo woodlands: Insights from Tanzania (2017) (2)
- Protected areas under threat (2016) (2)
- Wildlife and wildlife management in Tanzania: Wildlife in Tanzania (2016) (1)
- Commentary to biodiversity and conservation Upgrading Birgus: lessons for invertebrate conservation (2022) (1)
- The behaviour of teleost fishes: edited by Tony J. Pitcher, Croom Helm, 1986. £42.50 (1 + 553 pages) ISBN 0 7099 2070 9 (1987) (1)
- Colour polymorphism in the coconut crab (Birgus latro) (2017) (1)
- Keeping the Faith: The Case for Very-Large Terrestrial and Marine Protected Areas (2020) (1)
- Systematic data are the best way forward in studies of teaching. (2015) (1)
- On the evolution of distinctive natal coat coloration in primates (2022) (1)
- Trends In Mortality of Mammals On Roads In Northern California (2013) (1)
- Primate Anti-predator Strategies, by S. Gursky and K. A. I. Nekaris (2007) (1)
- The adaptive significance of coloration in lagomorphs (2003) (1)
- A Conservation Odyssey (2016) (1)
- A case study of the coconut crab Birgus latro on Zanzibar highlights global threats and conservation solutions (2020) (1)
- Terrestrial protected areas: Threats and solutions (2014) (1)
- Ecological Drivers of Habitat Use by Meso Mammals in a Miombo Ecosystem in the Issa Valley, Tanzania (2022) (0)
- Bear essentials. (2023) (0)
- Research kudos does not need a price tag. (2018) (0)
- Behavioral Ecology as an Applied Science?@@@Behavioral Ecology and Conservation Biology (1999) (0)
- 3. Predation and aposematism (2019) (0)
- Now is not tomorrow (2022) (0)
- Escaping from Predators: An Integrative View of Escape Decisions. Edited by William E. Cooper Jr. and Daniel T. Blumstein. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. $104.99. xv + 442 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-1-107-06054-8. 2015. (2016) (0)
- 2. Predation and crypsis (2019) (0)
- Flash behavior in mammals? (2020) (0)
- The evolution of anterior coloration in carnivorans (2017) (0)
- A level playing field: Animal Play: Evolutionary, Comparative and Ecological Perspectives edited by Marc Bekoff and John A. Byers (1999) (0)
- Cheetahs modify their prey handling behavior depending on risks from top predators (2018) (0)
- Letters (2002) (0)
- The Challenges of Natural Selection@@@Natural Selection: Domains, Levels and Challenges. (1993) (0)
- Why don't horseflies land on zebras? (2023) (0)
- Behaviour and evolution: Edited by P. J. B. Slater and T. R. Halliday, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994 (1997) (0)
- Female birds disguised as males get extra food (2022) (0)
- Parental Care Comes of Age@@@The Evolution of Parental Care. (1992) (0)
- 4. Predation and confusion (2019) (0)
- Sensory Ecology, Behaviour, and Evolution. By Martin Stevens. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. $125.00. xii + 247 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-0-19-960177-6. 2013. (2015) (0)
- Cheetahs of the Serengeti Plains: Group Living in an Asocial Animal (1995) (0)
- An evolutionary route to warning coloration. (2023) (0)
- 7. Temperature regulation (2019) (0)
- Decision letter: The structure of species discrimination signals across a primate radiation (2019) (0)
- Chance to learn and teach in the developing world (2007) (0)
- 8. Multifactorial analyses (2019) (0)
- Making a dent in speciesism (1989) (0)
- The ecology of multiple colour defences (2016) (0)
- Prey preferences of bushmeat hunters in an East African savannah ecosystem (2012) (0)
- Practical guide to coproduction in conservation science (2022) (0)
- Rewilding rebuttal [1] (2007) (0)
- THE CHALLENGES OF NATURAL SELECTION (1993) (0)
- Supplementary material from "Zebra stripes, tabanid biting flies and the aperture effect" (2020) (0)
- PARENTAL CARE COMES OF AGE (1992) (0)
- :Adventures in the Wild: Tales from Biologists of the Natural State (2008) (0)
- Ecological Scaling in Space and Time (2020) (0)
- 6. Intraspecific communication (2019) (0)
- Editors' Acknowledgments (2008) (0)
- Diversity Conservation in the Anthropocene (2011) (0)
- Research kudos does not need a price tag (2018) (0)
- Keeping the Faith: (2020) (0)
- A roadmap for comparative primate coloration research: a response to comments on Caro et al. (2021) (0)
- Book reviewThe Morphogenesis of the Behaviour of the Domestic Cat., J.M. Baerends-van Roon, G.P. Baerends (Eds.), North Holland, Amsterdam (1979), p. 120 (1980) (0)
- Kingdon on Colouration: Crested Rats, Guenons and Zebras (2015) (0)
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