Dr Maren Huck

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Job title: Lecturer in Animal Behavioural Ecology

Email: m.huck@derby.ac.uk
Phone No: 01332-59 2354
Room: N705

Recent publications

2012/ in press

• HUCK, M., ROTUNDO, M., JUÁREZ, C., & FERNANDEZ-DUQUE, E. (accepted). Registro de Cuniculus paca (Rodentia, Cuniculidae) en la provincia de Formosa (Argentina). Mastozoología Neotropical.
• FERNANDEZ-DUQUE, E. & HUCK, M. (accepted). Till death do us part: Intense intra-sexual competition, aggression and death in a sexually monomorphic primate species. PLoS ONE.
• HUCK, M. & FERNANDEZ-DUQUE, E. (2012) Survival of a wild puma missing a foot. Cat News. 57:7-8
• KLAVINS, J., HUCK, M., ROTUNDO, M., FERNANDEZ-DUQUE, E. (2012) Trampa-cámara descubre el primer Aguilucho Alas Anchas Buteo platypterus en el Chaco argentino. Revista Cotinga. 34, 57-59.
• HUCK, M. & FERNANDEZ-DUQUE, E. (2012). Building babies when dads help: infant development of owl monkeys and other primates with allo-maternal care. In: Building Babies: Primate Development in Proximate and Ultimate Perspective (Ed. by Clancy, K., Hinde, K. & Rutherford, J.). New York: Springer. pp 361-385.
• FERNANDEZ-DUQUE, E., DI FIORE, A., HUCK, M. (2012). The behavior, ecology, and social evolution of New World monkeys. In: The Evolution of Primate Societies (Mitani J, Call J, Kappeler P, Palombit R, & Silk J, eds).
• HUCK, M. & FERNANDEZ-DUQUE, E. 2012. Children of divorce: effects of adult replacements on previous offspring in Argentinean owl monkeys. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 66, 505-517.

2011

• HUCK, M., ROTUNDO, M., FERNANDEZ-DUQUE, E. 2011. Growth and development in wild owl monkeys (Aotus azarai) of Argentina. International Journal of Primatology, 32, 1133-1152.
• HUCK, M., JĘDRZEJEWSKI, W., BOROWIK, T., JĘDRZEJEWSKA, B., NOWAK, S. & MYSŁAJEK, R. W. 2011. Analyses of least cost paths for determining effects of habitat types on landscape permeability: wolves in Poland. Acta Theriologica, 56, 91-101.

2010

• HUCK, M., JĘDRZEJEWSKI W., BOROWIK, T., MIŁOSZ-CIELMA, M., SCHMIDT, K., JĘDRZEJEWSKA, B., NOWAK, S., AND MYSŁAJEK, R. W. 2010. Habitat suitability, corridors and dispersal barriers for large carnivores in Poland. Acta Theriologica, 55, 177-192.

2009

• DAVISON, J., HUCK, M., DELAHAY, R. J. & ROPER, T. J. (2009) Restricted ranging behaviour in a population of urban badgers. Journal of Zoology, 277, 45-53 doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.2008.00509.x.

2008

• DAVISON, J., HUCK, M., DELAHAY, R. J. & ROPER, T. J. 2008. Urban badger setts: characteristics, patterns of use and management implications. Journal of Zoology, 275, 190-200.
• HUCK, M., DAVISON, J. & ROPER, T. J. 2008. Predicting European badger sett distribution in urban environments, Wildlife Biology, 14, 188-198.
• HUCK, M., FRANTZ, A. C., DAWSON, D. A., BURKE, T. & ROPER, T. J. (2008) Low genetic variability, female biased dispersal and high movement rates in an urban population of Eurasian badgers (Meles meles). Journal of Animal Ecology, 77, 905-915.
• HUCK, M., DAVISON, J. & ROPER, T. J. (2008) Comparison of two sampling schemes and three home range estimators using radio-tracking data from urban badgers. Wildlife Biology, 14, 467-477.

2007

• HUCK, M., ROOS, C., & HEYMANN, E. W. 2007. Spatio-genetic population structure in moustached tamarins, Saguinus mystax. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 132, 576-583.
• LÖTTKER, P., HUCK, M., ZINNER, D. P. & HEYMANN, E. W. 2007. Grooming relationships between breeding females and adult group members in a cooperatively breeding primate. American Journal of Primatology, 69, 1-14.
• SMITH, A. C., KNOGGE, C., HUCK, M., LÖTTKER, P., BUCHANAN-SMITH, H. M., HEYMANN, E. W. & SMITH, A. B. 2007. Long-term patterns of sleeping site use in wild saddleback (Saguinus fuscicollis) and mustached tamarins (S. mystax): effects of foraging, thermoregulation, predation, and resource defense constraints, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 134, 340-353.

2005

• HUCK, M., LÖTTKER, P., HEYMANN, E. W. & HEISTERMANN, M. 2005. Characterization and social correlates of fecal testosterone and cortisol levels in wild male moustached tamarins (Saguinus mystax). International Journal of Primatology, 26, 159-179.
• HUCK, M., LÖTTKER, P., BÖHLE, U.-R. & HEYMANN, E. W. 2005. Paternity and kinship patterns in polyandrous moustached tamarins (Saguinus mystax). American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 127, 449-464.

2004

• HUCK, M., LÖTTKER, P. & HEYMANN, E. W. 2004. The many faces of helping: Possible costs and benefits of infant carrying and food transfer in moustached tamarins (Saguinus mystax). Behaviour, 141, 915-934.
• HUCK, M., LÖTTKER, P. & HEYMANN, E. W. 2004. Proximate mechanisms of reproductive monopolization in male moustached tamarins (Saguinus mystax). American Journal of Primatology, 64, 39-56.
• LÖTTKER, P., HUCK, M. & HEYMANN, E. W. 2004. Demographic parameters and events in wild moustached tamarins (Saguinus mystax). American Journal of Primatology, 64, 425-449.
• LÖTTKER, P., HUCK, M., HEYMANN, E. W. & HEISTERMANN, M. 2004. Endocrine correlates of reproductive status in breeding and non-breeding wild female moustached tamarins. International Journal of Primatology, 25, 919-937.
• HUCK, M., LÖTTKER, P., HEYMANN, E. W., & HEISTERMANN, M. 2004. Aspects of the behavioral and endocrine ontogeny of six moustached tamarins, Saguinus mystax (Callitrichinae), Neotropical Primates, 12, 131-135.

1999 - 2003

• SHAHUANO TELLO, N., HUCK, M. & HEYMANN, E. W. 2002. Boa constrictor attack and successful group defence in moustached tamarins, Saguinus mystax. Folia Primatologica, 73, 146-148.
• LAUGHLIN, K., HUCK, M. & MENDL, M. 1999. Disturbance effects of environmental stimuli on pig spatial memory. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 64, 169-180.