📢Winners of the 2024 Journal of Zoology Paper of the Year award📢

Saima Shikesho, Jeremy Midgley, Eugene Marais & Steve Johnson, with their paper

'Frugivory by carnivores: Black-backed jackals are key dispersers of seeds of the scented !nara melon in the Namib Desert'

doi.org/10.1111/jzo....

Foraging behaviour of scatter-hoarding gerbils (Gerbilliscus (Gerbillurus)) influences seed fate and dispersal for key plant species in the Namib Desert Hairy-footed gerbils (Gerbilliscus (Gerbillurus) spp.) in the Namib Desert play a dual ecological role as both seed dispersers and predators, a behaviour typical of scatter-hoarding species. The fa...

Fascinating research on the foraging behaviour of rodents in the hyper-arid environment and their influence on seed fate dispersal. #aridlandecology #speciesinteractions #seeddispersal

www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...