Carsten Schradin A

The paper challenges the assumption that early placental mammals were solitary by showing ancestral social organization included pair-living and intraspecific variation.

The paper studies bush Karoo rat lodges, finding they improve thermoregulation, provide predator protection, and are genetically encoded extended phenotypes shaped by ecological pressures.

The paper introduces Co-BreeD, a peer-reviewed and updatable database for cooperative breeding research, showing cooperative breeding is more prevalent than previously estimated.

The study finds that kin-sharing foraging grounds in solitary bush Karoo rats indicates mutual cooperation through kin selection and mutualism.

The paper shows that African striped mice adjust their vocalizations based on social context, using different call types and temporal patterns depending on familiarity and sex of interacting individuals.

The paper shows that solitary living in bush Karoo rats is not driven by aggression but by social tolerance and dispersal.