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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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Calabretta E, Canoine V, Cardinale M, Maggini I, Fusani L. Passerine stopover physiology: weather variability does not alter corticosterone dynamics after sea crossing. Journal of Avian Biology. 2025 Jul. doi: 10.1002/jav.03474

Shaw AK, Fouda L, Mezzini S, Kim D, Chatterjee N, Wolfson D et al. Perceived and observed biases within scientific communities: a case study in movement ecology. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences. 2025 Jul;292(2051):20250679. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2025.0679

Scheiber IBR, Slettenhaar A, Loonen M, de Jong ME. Dads on Duty: First account of nest sitting in Barnacle ganders. Ardea. 2025 Jun 13;113(1):1-11.

Chimento M, Dalmaijer E, Klump BC, Aplin LM. Temporal dynamics and policy implications in an innovation arms race. bioRxiv. 2025 Jun 10. Epub 2025 Jun 10. doi: 10.1101/2025.02.13.638049

Klump BC, Walter D, Martin JM, Aplin LM. Emergence of a novel drinking innovation in an urban population of sulphur-crested cockatoos, Cacatua galerita. Biology Letters. 2025 Jun 4;21(6). doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2025.0010

de Jong ME, Slettenhaar AJ, Fokkema RW, Leh M, Verhoeven MA, Griffin LR et al. Diel rhythmicity of activity and corticosterone metabolites in Arctic barnacle geese during breeding. Behavioral Ecology. 2025 Jun;36(4):araf071. doi: 10.1093/beheco/araf071

Carrard T, Nourani E, Jansing L, Zimmermann T, Sumasgutner P, Tschumi M et al. Golden eagles regularly use gravity waves to soar: new insights from high-resolution weather data. Journal of the Royal Society. Interface. 2025 Jun;22(227):20240891. doi: 10.1098/rsif.2024.0891

Carrard T, Nourani E, Jansing L, Zimmermann T, Sumasgutner P, Tschumi M et al. Golden eagles regularly use gravity waves to soar in the Alps: new insights from high-resolution weather data. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 2025 Jun;22(227):20240891. Epub 2025 Jun 4. doi: 10.1101/2024.10.29.620992, 10.1098/rsif.2024.0891

Todorova B, Steininger MO, Lamm C, Doell KC. Neuroscience and climate action: intersecting pathways for brain and planetary health. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 2025 Jun;63:101522. doi: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2025.101522

Turker S, Fumagalli B, Hartwigsen G, Kuhnke P. The 'reading' brain: Meta-analytic insight into functional activation during reading in adults. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews . 2025 Jun;173:106166. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2025.106166

Geiger SJ, Köhler JK, Delabrida ZNC, Garduño-Realivazquez KA, Haugestad CAP, Imada H et al. What We Think Others Think and Do About Climate Change: A Multicountry Test of Pluralistic Ignorance and Public-Consensus Messaging. Psychological Science. 2025 Jun;36(6):421-442. doi: 10.1177/09567976251335585

Eleuteri V, van der Werff J, Wilhelm W, Soldati A, Crockford C, Desai N et al. Chimpanzee drumming shows rhythmicity and subspecies variation. Current Biology. 2025 May 19;35(10):2448-2456.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.04.019

Nguyen TH, Schausberger P. Parental and personal experience drive personality formation and individual niche diversification in group-living mites. Iscience. 2025 May 16;28(5). doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.112424

Rodseth E, Amar A, Sumasgutner P, Ingle R. Plumage polymorphism in the black sparrowhawk (Accipiter melanoleucus) is strongly associated with the expression level of agouti signaling protein. Journal of Heredity. 2025 May 1;116(3):193-207. esae068. doi: 10.1093/jhered/esae068

Pahl A, Rault JL, McGetrick J, Eggert A, Nawroth C, Langbein J. Do goats exhibit prosocial motivation? Insights from a novel food-giving paradigm. Royal Society Open Science. 2025 May;12(5):250556. doi: 10.1098/rsos.250556

Katsis A, Common L, Lesigang J, Bold A, Fröhlich M, Schmincke JM et al. Flight initiation distance is repeatable and geographically flexible in greylag geese Anser anser. Journal of Avian Biology. 2025 May;2025(3):e03288. doi: 10.1111/jav.03288

van Oosten JCP, Vanhooland LC, Roth TS, Gallup AC, Massen JJM. No Experimental Evidence For Yawn Contagion In Galahs (Eolophus Roseicapilla). Animal Behavior and Cognition. 2025 May;12(2):148-171. doi: 10.26451/abc.12.02.01.2025

Grabner JV, Kempf AE, Nederlof AMN, Varkevisser JM, Spierings MJ. Rhythmic Roots: The Adaptive Functions of Vocal Isochrony and Its Role in Human Music and Language Evolution. Psychological Topics. 2025 Apr 16;34(1):1-24. doi: 10.31820/pt.34.1.1

Eckert L, Hartwigsen G, Turker S. Cognitive-Linguistic Profiles of German Adults with Dyslexia. Behavioral Sciences. 2025 Apr 13;15(4). doi: 10.3390/bs15040522

Lameris TK, Boom MP, Nuijten RJM, Buitendijk NH, Eichhorn G, Ens BJ et al. Migratory Birds Advance Spring Arrival and Egg-­ Laying in the Arctic, Mostly by Travelling Faster. Global Change Biology. 2025 Apr 9;31(4):e70158. doi: 10.1111/gcb.70158

Aispuro AA, Maggini I, Fusani L, Canoine V. Testosterone dynamics of migratory birds during stopover. Scientific Reports. 2025 Apr 6;15(1):11745. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-95413-z, 10.1038/s41598-025-95413-z

Slezacek J, Fusani L, Kaiya H, Quillfeldt P. A first glimpse into circulating ghrelin patterns of thin-billed prion chicks (Pachyptila belcheri). Journal of Comparative Physiology B: biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology. 2025 Apr;195(2):209-213. doi: 10.1007/s00360-025-01602-7

Panter CT, Nebel C, Raab M, Strauss V, Freytag C, Wojta M et al. A LEAP Forward in Wildlife Conservation: A Standardized Framework to Determine Mortality Causes in Large GPS-Tagged Birds. Ecology and Evolution. 2025 Apr;15(4):e70975. doi: 10.1002/ece3.70975

Dittrich C, Mangione R, Marquis O, Ringler E, Lemaire J. Ecological and Behavioral Implications of Multiple Paternity in the Smooth-Fronted Caiman in French Guiana. Ecology and Evolution. 2025 Apr;15(4):e71337. Epub 2025 Apr 23. doi: 10.1002/ece3.71337

Nhlapo KB, Cunningham SJ, Sumasgutner P, Ganswindt A, McKechnie AE, Ngcamphalala CA. High human presence is correlated with lower faecal glucocorticoid metabolite levels in an urban bird population. Hormones and Behavior. 2025 Apr;170:105724. Epub 2025 Mar 18. doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2025.105724

MacaqueNet, Brent LJN. MacaqueNet: Advancing comparative behavioural research through large‐scale collaboration. Journal of Animal Ecology. 2025 Apr. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.14223

Kepinska O, Dalboni da Rocha JL, Tuerk C, Hervais-Adelman A, Bouhali F, Green D et al. Auditory cortex anatomy reflects multilingual phonological experience. eLife. 2025 Mar 26;12:RP90269. doi: 10.7554/eLife.90269

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