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Mammalian Biology

Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde

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Mammalian Biology - Volume 102, issue 3, June 2022

Special Issue
Individual Identification and Photographic Techniques in Mammalian Ecological and Behavioural Research – Part 1: Methods and Concepts

Issue Editors
Leszek Karczmarski, Stephen C. Y. Chan, Daniel I. Rubenstein,
Scott Y. S. Chui and Elissa Z. Cameron

                                   34 articles in this issue

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Individual identification and photographic techniques in mammalian ecological and behavioural research—Part 1:  Methods and concepts

Leszek Karczmarski, Stephen C. Y. Chan, Daniel I. Rubenstein, Scott Y. S. Chui & Elissa Z. Cameron
Preface | Freely Available | Published: 21 November 2022 | Pages 545-549


Analytical Innovations 

Assessing social structure: a data-driven approach to define associations between individuals

Sara B. Tavares, Hal Whitehead & Thomas Doniol-Valcroze
Methodology | Open Access | Published: 25 March 2022 | Pages 551-566
 


Preserving identity in capture–mark–recapture studies: increasing the accuracy of minimum number alive (MNA) estimates by incorporating inter-census trapping efficiency variation

Julius G. Bright Ross, Chris Newman, Christina D. Buesching & David W. Macdonald
Methodology | Open Access | Published: 22 February 2022 | Pages 567 - 580
 


spaceNtime: an R package for estimating abundance of unmarked animals using camera-trap photographs

Anna K. Moeller & Paul M. Lukacs
Methodology | Open Access | Published: 26 October 2021 | Pages 581 - 590 


Novel Field Techniques 

MAMB04A novel technique for aging male African elephants (Loxodonta africana) using craniofacial photogrammetry and geometric morphometrics

Caitlin E. O’Connell-Rodwell, Patrick T. Freeman, Colleen Kinzley, Monica N. Sandri, Jodie L. Berezin, Maggie Wiśniewska, Kelsey Jessup & Timothy C. Rodwell
Original Article | Freely Available | Published: 31 May 2022 | Pages 591 - 613


Automated, high-throughput image calibration for parallel-laser photogrammetry

Jack L. Richardson, Emily J. Levy, Riddhi Ranjithkumar, Huichun Yang, Eric Monson, Arthur Cronin, Jordi Galbany, Martha M. Robbins, Susan C. Alberts, Mark E. Reeves & Shannon C. McFarlin
Methodology | Freely Available | Published: 11 March 2022 | Pages 615 - 627
 

MAMB34A photogrammetric method to estimate total length of the largest mammal, the blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) 

Christian D. Ortega-Ortiz, Ricardo M. Mata Cruz, Tim Gerrodette & Diane Gendron
Original Article | Freely Available | Published: 07 November 2022 | Pages 629 - 643


Everyone matters: identification with facial wrinkles allows more accurate inference of elephant social dynamics

Scott Y. S. Chui & Leszek Karczmarski
Methodology | Freely Available | Published: 01 July 2022 | Pages 645 - 666


Innovative Concepts and Applications 

The potential for acoustic individual identification in mammals

Pavel Linhart, Mathieu Mahamoud-Issa, Dan Stowell & Daniel T. Blumstein
Review | Freely Available | Published: 31 March 2022 | Pages 667 - 683


 

Predicting the individual identity of non-invasive faecal and hair samples using biotelemetry clusters

Levi Newediuk & Eric Vander Wal
Methodology | Freely Available | Published: 27 December 2021 | Pages 685 - 700


 

Evaluating likelihood-based photogrammetry for individual recognition of four species of northern ungulates

Isobel F. G. Ness, Thomas S. Jung & Fiona K. A. Schmiegelow
Methodology | Freely Available | Published: 9 March 2022 | Pages 701 - 718


Evaluating the use of thermal imagery to count harbor seals in aerial surveys

Cynthia L. Christman, Josh M. London, Paul B. Conn, Stacie K. Hardy, Gavin M. Brady, Shawn P. Dahle, Benjamin X. Hou & Heather L. Ziel
Methodology | Open Access | Published: 21 January 2022 | Pages 719 - 732


Multi-regional comparison of scarring and pigmentation patterns in Cuvier’s beaked whales

Frazer G. Coomber, Erin A. Falcone, Erin L. Keene, Gustavo Cárdenas-Hinojosa, Rodrigo Huerta-Patiño & Massimiliano Rosso
Original Article | Freely Available | Published: 22 April 2022 | Pages 733 - 750


Assessing male gelada chest patches: color measurement and physiological mechanisms

Patricia M. DeLacey, Rachel F. Perlman, Sharmi Sen, India Schneider-Crease, Kenneth L. Chiou, Alemayehu Lemma, Ferehiwot Ayele, James P. Higham, Amy Lu, Noah Snyder-Mackler, Jacinta C. Beehner & Thore J. Bergman
Original Article | Freely Available | Published: 22 February 2022 | Pages 751 - 763


Photographic and Identification Protocol 

Drone-based photogrammetry assessments of body size and body condition of Antillean manatees

Eric Angel Ramos, Sarah Landeo-Yauri, Nataly Castelblanco-Martínez, Maria Renée Arreola, Adam H. Quade & Guillaume Rieucau
Original Article | Freely Available | Published: 18 April 2022 | Pages 765 -779


Effect of matching uncertainty on population parameter estimation in mark-recapture analysis of photo-identification data

Erin Ashe & Philip S. Hammond
Methodology | Open Access | Published: 13 May 2022 | Pages 781 - 792


Bat selfies: photographic surveys of flying bats

Jens Rydell, Danilo Russo, Price Sewell, Ernest C. J. Seamark, Charles M. Francis, Sherri L. Fenton & M. Brock Fenton
Methodology | Open Access | Published: 07 April 2022 | Pages 793 - 809


 

Adapting photo-identification methods to study poorly marked cetaceans: a case study for common dolphins and harbor porpoises

Cindy R. Elliser, Krista van der Linde & Katrina MacIver
Methodology | Freely Available | Published: 05 April 2022 | Pages 811 - 827 


Species identification of morphologically similar tropical dolphins and estimating group size using aerial imagery in coastal waters

Holly C. Raudino, Christophe Cleguer, Melanie A. Hamel, Michael Swaine & Kelly A. Waples
Methodology | Freely Available | Published: 16 March 2022 | Pages 829 - 839


A method for marking individual animals in motion-triggered camera studies

Yasmine N. Majchrzak, Allyson K. Menzies, Darcy Doran-Myers, Michael J. L. Peers, Emily K. Studd, Rudy Boonstra & Stan Boutin
Short Communication | Freely Available | Published: 28 February 2022 | Pages 841 - 845


Using camera traps to study hyenas: challenges, opportunities, and outlook

Arjun Dheer, Dinal Samarasinghe, Stephanie M. Dloniak & Alexander Braczkowski
Perspective | Open Access | Published: 17 March 2022 | Pages 847 - 854


 

MAMB19+Individual identification of armadillos (Mammalia, Cingulata) using a photo-identification software

Jorge A. Gallo, Agustín M. Abba & Mariella Superina
Short Communication | Freely Available | Published: 20 June 2022 | Pages 855 - 861


 

MAMB20Identifying individual ungulates from fecal DNA: a comparison of field collection methods to maximize efficiency, ease, and success

Bryan H. Bach, Ashling B. Quigley, Kaitlyn M. Gaynor, Alex McInturff, Kristin L. Charles, Janelle Dorcy & Justin S. Brashares
Methodology | Open Access | Published: 24 February 2022 | Pages 863 - 874


Automated Individual Recognition 

MAMB21+Pre-trained models are not enough: active and lifelong learning is important for long-term visual monitoring of mammals in biodiversity research—Individual identification and attribute prediction with image features from deep neural networks and decoupled decision models applied to elephants and great apes

Paul Bodesheim, Jan Blunk, Matthias Körschens, Clemens-Alexander Brust, Christoph Käding & Joachim Denzler
Original Article | Open Access | Published: 12 April 2022 | Pages 875 - 897


MAMB22+Similarity learning networks for animal individual re-identification: an ecological perspective

Stefan Schneider, Graham W. Taylor & Stefan C. Kremer
Methodology | Freely Available | Published: 27 April 2022 | Pages 899 - 914


 

MAMB23+Advanced image recognition: a fully automated, high-accuracy photo-identification matching system for humpback whales

Ted Cheeseman, Ken Southerland, Jinmo Park, Marilia Olio, Kiirsten Flynn, John Calambokidis, Lindsey Jones, Claire Garrigue, Astrid Frisch Jordán, Addison Howard, Walter Reade, Janet Neilson, Christine Gabriele & Phil Clapham
Methodology | Freely Available | Published: 07 December 2021 | Pages 915 -  929


MAMB24Feasibility of using convolutional neural networks for individual-identification of wild Asian elephants

Elgiriyage M. K. de Silva, Prabhash Kumarasinghe, Kottahachchi K. D. A. K. Indrajith, Tennekoon V. Pushpakumara, Ranapura D. Y. Vimukthi, Kasun de Zoysa, Kasun Gunawardana & Shermin de Silva
Methodology | Freely Available | Published: 21 January 2022 | Pages 931 - 941


MAMB25Multispecies facial detection for individual identification of wildlife: a case study across ursids

Melanie Clapham, Ed Miller, Mary Nguyen & Russell C. Van Horn
Methodology | Open Access | Published: 07 April 2022 | Pages 943 - 955



MAMB26Matching individual Ladoga ringed seals across short-term image sequences

Ekaterina Nepovinnykh, Ilia Chelak, Andrei Lushpanov, Tuomas Eerola, Heikki Kälviäinen & Olga Chirkova
Methodology | Open Access | Published: 08 April 2022 | Pages 957 - 972


 

MAMB27Assessing the performance of open-source, semi-automated pattern recognition software for harbour seal (P. v. vitulina) photo ID

Izzy Langley, Emily Hague & Mònica Arso Civil
Methodology | Freely Available | Published: 14 December 2021 | Pages 973 - 982


Data Integration and Management

MAMB28A simple tool for linking photo-identification with multimedia data to track mammal behaviour

Alexandre M. S. Machado & Mauricio Cantor
Methodology | Open Access | Published: 27 December 2021 | Pages 983 - 993 


 

MAMB29catRlog: a photo-identification project management system based in R

Eric M. Keen, Julia Wren, Éadin O’Mahony & Janie Wray
Methodology | Freely Available | Published: 05 August 2021 | Pages 995 - 1004


 

MAMB30Flukebook: an open-source AI platform for cetacean photo identification

Drew Blount, Shane Gero, Jon Van Oast, Jason Parham, Colin Kingen, Ben Scheiner, Tanya Stere, Mark Fisher, Gianna Minton, Christin Khan, Violaine Dulau, Jaime Thompson, Olga Moskvyak, Tanya Berger-Wolf, Charles V. Stewart, Jason Holmberg & J. Jacob Levenson
Methodology | Open Access | Published: 05 April 2022 | Pages 1005 - 1023


MAMB31Artificial intelligence for right whale photo identification: from data science competition to worldwide collaboration

Christin Khan, Drew Blount, Jason Parham, Jason Holmberg, Philip Hamilton, Claire Charlton, Fredrik Christiansen, David Johnston, Will Rayment, Steve Dawson, Els Vermeulen, Victoria Rowntree, Karina Groch, J. Jacob Levenson & Robert Bogucki
Methodology | Open Access | Published: 03 June 2022 | Pages 1025 - 1042


Correction to: catRlog: a photo-identification project management system based in R

Eric M. Keen, Julia Wren, Éadin O’Mahony & Janie Wray
Correction | Published: 05 April 2022 | Pages 1043 - 1043 


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