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21.11.2025
 

What enables human language? A biocultural framework

 

Inbal Arnon, Liran Carmel, Nicolas Claidière, W. Tecumseh Fitch, Susan Goldin-Meadow, Simon...

22.09.2025
 

Brain activation for language and its relationship to cognitive and linguistic measures

Irene Balboni, Alessandra Rampinini, Olga Kepinska, Raphael...

26.08.2025
 

"Startling ravens Corvus corax at foraging: differences in anti-predator behaviour can be explained by age rather than personality"

by: Janina Anna...

21.07.2025
 

A nice press release on gestures in elephants. Well done!

 

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/science/elephants-gesturing-trunk.html

 

09.07.2025
 

Congratulations to Prof. Leonida Fusani for receiving a further FWF grant for the project "Mating and bonding decisions in a challenging environment"

05.05.2025
 

Publications


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MacGillavry T, Toyama KS, Fusani L. Allometry, sexual dimorphism, and sexual trait elaboration in the birds of paradise. Evolution. 2025 Dec 23. Epub 2025 Dec 23. doi: 10.1093/evolut/qpaf263

Reichebner M, Headland T, Sumasgutner SC, Colombelli‑Négrel D, Kleindorfer S, Sumasgutner P. Home Range Sizes of Urban Nankeen Kestrels in South Australia. The Journal of Raptor Research. 2025 Dec 12;60(1). Epub 2025 Dec 12. doi: 10.3356/jrr2512

Frigerio D, Boby J, Cantele M, Colombelli‑Négrel D, Kleindorfer S. Cutting-Edge Techniques Show That Greylag Geese Have Individual Faces! Frontiers for Young Minds. 2025 Dec 8. doi: 10.3389/frym.2025.1560275

Van der Aa J, Koliander G, Fitch WTS, Hoeschele M. Novel Approach to Inter-Onset-Interval Ratio Uncovers Music-Like Rhythmic Patterns in Budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus) Warble Song. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 2025 Dec 6. doi: 10.1111/nyas.70164

Bapat A, Kempf AE, Friry S, Boucherie P, Bugnyar T. Patterns of object play behaviour and its functional implications in free-flying common ravens. Scientific Reports. 2025 Dec;15(1):137. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-83856-9

Skrábal J, Raab M, Raab R, Grüebler MU, Kormann UG, Scherler P et al. Red kite (Milvus milvus) collision risk is higher at wind turbines with larger rotors and lower clearance, evidenced by GPS tracking. Biological Conservation. 2025 Dec;312(111482). doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111482

Ye H, Šlipogor V, Hanson BT, Séneca J, Hausmann B, Herbold CW et al. Associations between gut microbiota and personality traits: insights from a captive common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) colony. Microbiology Spectrum. 2025 Nov 18;e0044325. Epub 2025 Nov 18. doi: 10.1128/spectrum.00443-25

MacGillavry T, Jadoul Y, Fusani L. Dancing male riflebirds create a dynamic sensory trajectory that guides female choice. Current Biology. 2025 Nov 3;35(21):5344-5352.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.09.009

Grabner JV, Pigmans E, Mircheva M, Knoester JM, Baumgartner R, Pomper U et al. Common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus) do not differentiate between familiar and unfamiliar conspecifics based on pitch contour information. 2025 Oct 27. doi: 10.1101/2025.10.27.684793

Haba Y, PipPop Consortium‡. Ancient origin of an urban underground mosquito. Science (New York, N.Y.). 2025 Oct 23;390(6771):eady4515. doi: 10.1126/science.ady4515

Chen SC, Buchanan EM, Kekecs Z, Miller JK, Szabelska A, Aczel B et al. Investigating object orientation effects across 18 languages. Current Psychology. 2025 Oct 22. doi: 10.1007/s12144-025-08304-x

Nemeth M, Jost T, Millesi E, Siutz C. Effects of walnut oil on long-term memory of rats in a multiple-T-maze. Physiology and Behavior. 2025 Oct 15;300:115035. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2025.115035

Slezacek J, Kostner B, Agabiti C, Cardinale M, Fusani L. Berries to Go: Distinct Passerine Spring Migration Frugivory at a Main Mediterranean Stopover Site. Ecology and Evolution. 2025 Oct;15(10):e72239. doi: 10.1002/ece3.72239

Jain V, J W McClure C, N Parish C, J Hauck T, Sumasgutner P. Tracking solutions to a persistent threat: spatial movement patterns reflect lead exposure in critically endangered California condors. Ecotoxicology. 2025 Oct;34(8):1476-1488. doi: 10.1007/s10646-025-02921-9

Balboni I, Rampinini A, Kepinska O, Berthele R, Golestani N. Brain activation for language and its relationship to cognitive and linguistic measures. Cerebral Cortex. 2025 Sept 9;35(8):bhaf231. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhaf231

Stückler S, Donnachie E, Fuxjager MJ, Gururaja KV, Hegde G, Wampula T et al. Dynamic Sexual Dichromatism Promotes Rapid Mate Recognition in an Explosive Breeding Toad. Ichthyology & Herpetology. 2025 Sept 2;113(3):517-526. doi: 10.1643/h2024105

Katsis A, Elgar M, Mulder R. Sexual and social functions of ornamental wing feathers in Black Swans (Cygnus atratus). Ibis. 2025 Aug 19;168(1):353-360. doi: 10.1111/ibi.13437

Common L, Albán Morales K, Katsis A, Kleindorfer S. Personality in the parasitic avian vampire fly (Philornis downsi). Behaviour: an international journal of behaviourial biology. 2025 Jul 14;545 - 568. Epub 2025. doi: 10.1163/1568539X-bja10317

Eleuteri V, Bates L, Nyaradzo Masarira Y, Plotnik JM, Hobaiter C, Stoeger A. Investigating intentionality in elephant gestural communication. The Royal Society Open Science. 2025 Jul 9;242203. doi: 10.1098/rsos.242203

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