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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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Müller C, Cant M. Imitation and Traditions in Wild Banded Mongooses. Current Biology. 2010;20(1171). doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.04.037

Range F, Noe R, Fruteau C. Infanticide Risk in Free-Ranging Sooty Mangabeys, Cercocebus atys. Behavioural Processes. 2010;83:113-118.

Auersperg A, Gajdon G, Huber L. Kea, Nestor notabilis, produce dynamic relationships between objects in a second-order tool use task. Animal Behaviour. 2010;80(5):783-789. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.08.007

Charlton B, Reby D, McComb K, Locatelli Y. Oestrous red deer hinds prefer high-pitched roars. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences. 2010;277(1695):2747-2753. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2010.0467

Braun A, Bugnyar T. Raven Machiavellian intelligence. In 25th International Ornithological Congress 2010, 22–28 August 2010, Campos do Jordão, Brazil: Tagungsband. Unknown publisher. 2010

Aust U, Huber L. Representational insight in pigeons: comparing subjects with and without real-life experience. Animal Cognition. 2010;13(2):207-218. doi: 10.1007/s10071-009-0258-4

Müller J. Social learning in a non-social reptile (Geochelone carbonaria). Biology Letters. 2010;6:614-616. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.0092

Farago T, Pongrácz P, Range F, Viranyi Z, Miklósi Á. 'The bone is mine': affective and referential aspects of dog growls. Animal Behaviour. 2010;79(4):917-925. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.01.005

Fitch WT. The Evolution of Language. Cambridge University Press, 2010. 622 p.

Fraser O, Bugnyar T. The quality of social relationships in ravens. Animal Behaviour. 2010;79(4):927-933. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.01.008

Tebbich S, Sterelny K, Teschke I. The tale of the finch: adaptive radiation and behavioural flexibility. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences. 2010;365(1543):1099-1109. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0291

Fitch WT. Three meanings of "recursion": key distinctions for biolinguistics. In The Evolution of Human Language: Biolinguistic Perspectives. Unknown publisher. 2010. p. 73-90

Fitch WT, Titze IR, Hunter EJ, Alipour F, Walsh EJ, Armstrong DL et al. Vocal power and pressure-flow relations in excised tiger larynges. Journal of Experimental Biology. 2010;213:3866-3873. doi: 10.1242/?jeb.044982

Fitch WT, Nicolas E, von Graevenitz A. Bio-Aesthetics, Dynamics and the Aesthetic Trajectory: A Cognitive and Cultural Perspective. In Skov M, Vartanian O, editors, Neuroaesthetics. Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing Company, Inc. 2009. p. 59-102

Fitch WT. Biology of Music: Another One Bites the Dust. Current Biology. 2009;19(10):403-404. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.04.004

Fitch WT. Birdsong normalized by culture. Nature. 2009;(459):519-520.

Huber L. Degrees of rationality in human and non-human animals. In Watanabe S, Blaisdell A, Huber L, Young A, editors, Rational Animals, Irrational Humans. Unknown publisher. 2009

Range F, Horn L, Virányi Z, Huber L. Effort and reward: inequity aversion in domestic dogs? Journal of Veterinary Behavior: Clinical Applications and Research. 2009;4(2):45-46. doi: 10.1016/j.jveb.2008.10.036

Huber L. Evolutionary Approach. In Goldstein EB, editor, Encyclopedia of Perception. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications Ltd. 2009

Fitch WT. Fossil Cues to the Evolution of Speech. In Botha R, Knight C, editors, The Cradle of Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2009. p. 112-134

Horn L, Pongrácz P, Virányi Z, Huber L, Miklósi Á, Range F. Human-directed gazing behavior in domestic dogs (Canis familiaris). Journal of Veterinary Behavior: Clinical Applications and Research. 2009;4(2):98-99. doi: 10.1016/j.jveb.2008.09.025

Gajdon G, Huber L. Kea (Nestor notabilis) consider spatial relationships between objects in the support problem. Biology Letters. 2009;5(4):455-458. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0114

Fitch WT. Prolegomena to a Science of Biolinguistics. In Röska-Hardy LS, Neumann-Held E, editors, Learning from Animals?: Examining the Nature of Human Uniqueness. 1 ed. Hove: Psychology Press. 2009. p. 15-44

Watanabe S, (ed.), Young A, (ed.), Huber L, (ed.), Blaisdell A, (ed.), Yamazaki Y, (ed.). Rational Animals, Irrational Humans. Unknown publisher, 2009.

Range F, Horn L, Viranyi Z, Huber L. The absence of reward induces inequity aversion in dogs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). 2009.

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