Michael Magrath

Warmer temperature and provision of natural substrate enable earlier metamorphosis in the critically endangered Baw Baw frog

Deon J Gilbert, Michael JL Magrath, Phillip G Byrne

Journal article  |  2020  |  CONSERVATION PHYSIOLOGY

Temperature and food availability are known to independently trigger phenotypic change in ectotherms, but the interactive effects ..

The Effect of Behind-The-Scenes Encounters and Interactive Presentations on the Welfare of Captive Servals (Leptailurus serval)

Lydia K Acaralp-Rehnberg, Grahame J Coleman, Michael JL Magrath, Vicky Melfi, Kerry V Fanson, Ian M Bland

Journal article  |  2020  |  ANIMALS

The serval (Leptailurus serval) is a small African felid that is well represented in zoos and often serves as an animal ambassador..

Animal personality and pace-of-life syndromes: do fast-exploring fairy-wrens die young?

Michelle L Hall, Timon van Asten, Andrew C Katsis, Niels J Dingemanse, Michael JL Magrath, Raoul A Mulder

Journal article  |  2015  |  FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The pace-of-life syndrome (POLS) hypothesis for animal personality proposes that variation among individuals in life-history strat..

Assortative mating among animals of captive and wild origin following experimental conservation releases

Brendan Slade, Marissa L Parrott, Aleisha Paproth, Michael JL Magrath, Graeme R Gillespie, Tim S Jessop

Journal article  |  2014  |  BIOLOGY LETTERS

Captive breeding is a high profile management tool used for conserving threatened species. However, the inevitable consequence of ..

Reproductive Consequences of Male Arrival Order in the Bark Beetle, Ips grandicollis

Matthew RE Symonds, Michael JL Magrath, Tanya M Latty

Journal article  |  2012  |  JOURNAL OF INSECT BEHAVIOR

For group-living animals the choice of whether to join aggregations or initiate their own is influenced by potential benefits such..

USING AN ELECTRONIC MONITORING SYSTEM TO LINK OFFSPRING PROVISIONING AND FORAGING BEHAVIOR OF A WILD PASSERINE

Mylene M Mariette, Emma C Pariser, Amanda J Gilby, Michael JL Magrath, Sarah R Pryke, Simon C Griffith

Journal article  |  2011  |  AUK

-Although the costs of parental care are at the foundations of optimal-parental-investment theory, our understanding of the nature..

Conclusive evidence for conspecific brood parasitism in the blue tit Cyanistes caeruleus: a reply to Griffith et al.

Oscar Vedder, Jan Komdeur, Marco van der Velde, Michael JL Magrath

Journal article  |  2010  |  JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Ultraviolet crown colouration affects contest outcomes among male blue tits, but only in the absence of prior encounters

Oscar Vedder, Elske Schut, Michael JL Magrath, Jan Komdeur

Journal article  |  2010  |  FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Static animal colour patches may function among competitors to minimize conflict escalation over resources, by serving as a signal..

Androgens during development in a bird species with extremely sexually dimorphic growth, the brown songlark, Cinclorhamphus cruralis

C Isaksson, MJL Magrath, TGG Groothuis, J Komdeur

Journal article  |  2010  |  GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

In birds, early exposure to androgens has been shown to influence offspring growth and begging behaviour, and has been proposed as..

Harem size and oviposition behaviour in a polygynous bark beetle

Tanya M Latty, Michael JL Magrath, Matthew RE Symonds

Journal article  |  2009  |  ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

1. Harem polygyny can have fitness benefits and costs on females. In bark beetles of the genus Ips the latter may include within-h..