Marta Manser
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Research interests
Animal Behaviour; Behavioural Ecology; Communication; Acoustics; Cognition; Coordination; Cooperation; Evolution; Hormones; Mechanisms; Mammals; Signals; Societies
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Education and professional positions
| 2015 - present | Full Professor in Animal Behaviour, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2008 - 2015 | Associate Professor (ad personam) in Animal Behaviour, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2002 | Assistant Professor (SNF Förderprofessur), Zoological Institute, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| 1998 | Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Dept of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA |
| 1994 | Ph.D. Thesis, Large Animal Research Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, England |
| 1992 | M.Sc. Thesis, Zoological Institute, University of Basel, Switzerland |
| 1988 | Undergraduate studies in Biology, University of Basel, Switzerland |
Selected publications
See full publication list on Google Scholar.
- Gall GEC., Manser MB. (2017). Group cohesion in foraging meerkats: follow the moving ‘vocal hot spot’. Royal Society Open Science, 4(4):170004. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.170004
- Rauber R., Manser MB. (2017). Discrete call types referring to predation risk enhance the efficiency of the meerkat sentinel system. Scientific Reports, 7:44436. DOI: 10.1038/srep44436
- Townsend SW., Koski SE., Byrne RW., Slocombe KE., Bickel B., Boeckle M., Braga Goncalves I., Burkart JM., Flower T., Gaunet F., Glock HJ., Gruber T., Jansen DAWAM., Liebal K., Linke A., Miklósi Á., Moore R., van Schaik CP., Stoll S., Vail A., Waller BM., Wild M., Zuberbühler K., Manser MB. (2017). Exorcising Grice's ghost: an empirical approach to studying intentional communication in animals. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 92(3):1427-1433. DOI: 10.1111/brv.12289
- Samson J., Manser MB. (2016) Use of the sun as a heading indicator when caching and recovering in a wild rodent. Scientific Reports, 6:32570. DOI: 10.1038/srep32570
- Manser MB., Jansen DAWAM., Graw B., Hollén L., Bousquet C., Furrer R., Le Roux A. (2014). Vocal complexity in Meerkats and other mongoose species. Advances in the Study of Behavior, 46:281-310. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-800286-5.00006-7
