Articles

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Dzingwena L.*, Thel L.*, Choisy M., Garbett R., Wilkinson A., Venter J. A., Fritz H., Huchard E.^, Prugnolle F.^, Rougeron V.^ (2025). Climate and predation drive variation of diel activity patterns in chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) across southern Africa. Scientific Reports 15: 39342.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-23151-3

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Thel L., Pineaux M., Ribeiro L., Danchin E., Whelan S., Hatch S. A., Blanchard P., Leclaire S. (2025). Major Histocompatibility Complex class IIB disassortative mate choice in a genetically monogamous seabird. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 292: 20251265.

https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.1265

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Thel L.*, Stols D.*, Orth S., Lagendijk G., Slotow R., Venter J.^, Fritz H.^ (2025). Long-term effects of an elephant-dominated browser community on the architecture of trees in a fenced reserve. Biotropica 57(5): e70078.​

https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.70078

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Thel L., Bonenfant C. & Chamaillé-Jammes S. (2025). Good moms: dependent young and their mothers cope better than others with longer dry season in plains zebra. Oecologia 207.

​https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-025-05676-6

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Thel L., Garel M., Marchand P., Bourgoin G., Loison A. (2024). Too hot or too disturbed? Temperatures more than hikers affect circadian activity of females in northern chamois. Animal Behaviour 210: 347-367.​

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2024.01.010

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Thel L., Chamaillé-Jammes S., Bonenfant C. (2022). How to describe and measure phenology? An investigation on the diversity of metrics using phenology of births in large herbivores. Oikos 4: e08917.​

https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.08917

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Thel L., Chamaillé-Jammes S., Keurinck L., Catala M., Packer C., Huebner S., Bonenfant C. (2021). Can citizen science analysis of camera trap data be used to study reproduction? Lessons from Snapshot Serengeti program. Wildlife Biology 2: wlb-00833.

https://doi.org/10.2981/wlb.00833​

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In Prep​

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Thel L., Bonenfant C., Chamaillé-Jammes S. Evolutionary and ecological determinants of the phenology of births in wild large herbivores, a systematic review (under revision).

https://doi.org/10.64898/2025.12.14.694258

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van Rooyen N.*, Thel L.*, Venter J. A., Fritz H., Prugnolle F.^, Rougeron V.^ No evidence of reactive avoidance of baboons (Papio ursinus and Papio anubis) to the presence of predators (under revision).

https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.01.646592

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PhD Thesis​

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Thel L. (2021). Phenology of births in ungulates: insights on its measure and its ecological determinants​​

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-03689048/

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