Michael A Cant

Michael A Cant

University of Exeter

H-index: 51

Europe-United Kingdom

About Michael A Cant

Michael A Cant, With an exceptional h-index of 51 and a recent h-index of 30 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of Exeter, specializes in the field of Behavioural Ecology, Evolutionary Biology.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Reproductive restraint to avoid the costs of reproductive conflict in a cooperatively breeding mammal

Defence against the intergenerational cost of reproduction in males: oxidative shielding of the germline

Strategic use of male alternative reproductive tactics in cooperatively breeding banded mongoose groups

The social formation of fitness: lifetime consequences of prenatal nutrition and postnatal care in a wild mammal population

Temporal dynamics of mother–offspring relationships in Bigg's killer whales: opportunities for kin-directed help by post-reproductive females

Importance sampling and Bayesian model comparison in ecology and evolution

Us, them, and the others: Testing for discrimination amongst outgroups in a single‐piece nesting termite, Zootermopsis angusticollis

Small increases in ambient temperature reduce offspring body mass in an equatorial mammal

Michael A Cant Information

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Citations(all)

7766

Citations(since 2020)

3391

Cited By

5671

hIndex(all)

51

hIndex(since 2020)

30

i10Index(all)

110

i10Index(since 2020)

83

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Michael A Cant Skills & Research Interests

Behavioural Ecology

Evolutionary Biology

Top articles of Michael A Cant

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Reproductive restraint to avoid the costs of reproductive conflict in a cooperatively breeding mammal

bioRxiv

Graham Birch

Hazel Nichols

Francis Mwanguhya

Michael Cant

Jonathan Blount

2024

Defence against the intergenerational cost of reproduction in males: oxidative shielding of the germline

Graham Birch

Magali Meniri

Michael A Cant

Jonathan D Blount

2024/2

Strategic use of male alternative reproductive tactics in cooperatively breeding banded mongoose groups

bioRxiv

Graham Birch

Hazel J Nichols

Francis Mwanguhya

Jonathan Blount

Michael Cant

2024

The social formation of fitness: lifetime consequences of prenatal nutrition and postnatal care in a wild mammal population

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B

Emma IK Vitikainen

Magali Meniri

HH Marshall

FJ Thompson

Robert Businge

...

2023/8/14

Temporal dynamics of mother–offspring relationships in Bigg's killer whales: opportunities for kin-directed help by post-reproductive females

Proceedings of the Royal Society B

Mia Lybkær Kronborg Nielsen

Samuel Ellis

Michael N Weiss

Jared R Towers

Thomas Doniol-Valcroze

...

2023/6/14

Importance sampling and Bayesian model comparison in ecology and evolution

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Dave W Hudson

Dave J Hodgson

Michael A Cant

Faye J Thompson

Richard Delahay

...

2023/12

Us, them, and the others: Testing for discrimination amongst outgroups in a single‐piece nesting termite, Zootermopsis angusticollis

Ecology and Evolution

Rebecca FB Padget

Michael A Cant

Faye J Thompson

2023/3

Small increases in ambient temperature reduce offspring body mass in an equatorial mammal

Biology Letters

Monil Khera

Kevin Arbuckle

Francis Mwanguhya

Solomon Kyabulima

Kenneth Mwesige

...

2023/11/22

Costly lifetime maternal investment in killer whales

Current Biology

Michael N Weiss

Samuel Ellis

Daniel W Franks

Mia Lybkær Kronborg Nielsen

Michael A Cant

...

2023/2/27

Menopause in chimpanzees

Science

Michael Cant

2023/10/27

The evolution of democratic peace in animal societies

bioRxiv

KL Hunt

M Patel

DP Croft

DW Franks

PA Green

...

2023/2/15

Caregiver’s cognitive traits are associated with pup fitness in a cooperatively breeding mammal

Scientific Reports

C Shelafoe

FJ Thompson

F Mwanguhya

S Kyabulima

R Businge

...

2023/10/18

Group size modulates kinship dynamics and selection on social traits

bioRxiv

Peng He

Michael N Weiss

Samuel Ellis

Daniel W Franks

Michael A Cant

...

2023

Untangling the oxidative cost of reproduction: an analysis in wild banded mongooses

Ecology and Evolution

Magali Meniri

Elsa Evans

Faye J Thompson

Harry H Marshall

Hazel J Nichols

...

2022/3

Patterns and consequences of age-linked change in local relatedness in animal societies

Nature ecology & evolution

Samuel Ellis

Rufus A Johnstone

Michael A Cant

Daniel W Franks

Michael N Weiss

...

2022/11

The evolution of predator avoidance in cephalopods: A case of brain over brawn?

Rahul Jaitly

Eva Ehrnsten

Johanna Hedlund

Michael Cant

Philipp Lehmann

...

2022/9/23

Fighting force and experience combine to determine contest success in a warlike mammal

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

PA Green

Faye J Thompson

Michael A Cant

2022/6/21

Leaders of war: modelling the evolution of conflict among heterogeneous groups

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B

DWE Sankey

KL Hunt

DP Croft

DW Franks

PA Green

...

2022/5/23

Testing the acoustic adaptation hypothesis with vocalizations from three mongoose species

Animal Behaviour

Aitana Garcia Arasco

Marta Manser

Stuart K Watson

Solomon Kyabulima

Andrew N Radford

...

2022/5/1

A veil of ignorance can promote fairness in a mammal society

Nature communications

Harry H Marshall

Rufus A Johnstone

Faye J Thompson

Hazel J Nichols

D Wells

...

2021/6/23

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