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A University of Vienna research team led by Sonia Kleindorfer helps Darwin's finches fly home after seven months in captivity. The finches were kept...

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A Behavioural Exploration of Language Aptitude and Experience, Cognition and More Using Graph Analysis

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An automated, data-driven approach to children's social dynamics in space and time

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In honour of the 50th anniversary of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, awarded in 1973 to Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch...

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Publications


Chen H, Yao H, Ruan X, Wallner B, Ostner J, Xiang Z. Tourism may trigger physiologically stress response of a long-term habituated population of golden snub-nosed monkeys. Current Zoology. 2021 Aug;67(4):465-467. zoaa076. doi: 10.1093/cz/zoaa076

Frommen JG, Fischer S. Proximate and ultimate mechanisms of cooperation in fishes. In The Cambridge Handbook of Animal Cognition. Cambridge University Press. 2021 doi: 10.1017/9781108564113.016

Wenig K, Boucherie PH, Bugnyar T. Early evidence for emotional play contagion in juvenile ravens. Animal Cognition. 2021 Jul;24(4):717-729. doi: 10.1007/s10071-020-01466-0

Beeck V, Stoeger A. A novel theory of Asian elephant highfrequency squeak production. BMC Biology. 2021 Jun 17;19(1):121. doi: 10.1186/s12915-021-01026-z

Antonson ND, Rivera M, Abolins-Abols M, Kleindorfer S, Liu WC, Hauber ME. Early acoustic experience alters genome-wide methylation in the auditory forebrain of songbird embryos. Neuroscience Letters. 2021 Jun 11;755:135917. doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2021.135917

Sigmundson R, Stribos MS, Hammer R, Herzele J, Pflüger LS, Massen JJM. Exploring the Cognitive Capacities of Japanese Macaques in a Cooperation Game. Animals. 2021 Jun;11(6):1497. doi: 10.3390/ani11061497

Bates AE, Primack RB, PAN-Environment Working Group. Global COVID-19 lockdown highlights humans as both threats and custodians of the environment. Biological Conservation. 2021 May 20;263:109175. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109175

Massen JJM, Hartlieb M, Martin JS, Leitgeb EB, Hockl J, Kocourek M et al. Brain size and neuron numbers drive differences in yawn duration across mammals and birds. Communications Biology. 2021 May 6;4(1):503. doi: 10.1038/s42003-021-02019-y

Bettoni S, Rodríguez Lopez C, Stoeger A, Fitch WT. Airborne vocal communication in adult neotropical otters (Lontra longicaudis). PLoS ONE. 2021 May;16(5):e0251974. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0251974

Ziegler A-K, Watson H, Hegemann A, Meitern R, Canoine V, Nilsson J-Å et al. Exposure to artificial light at night alters innate immune response in wild great tit nestlings. The Journal of experimental biology. 2021 May;224(10):jeb239350. doi: 10.1242/jeb.239350

Lesch R, Schwaha T, Orozco A, Shilling M, Brunelli S, Hofer M et al. Selection on vocal output affects laryngeal morphology in rats. Journal of Anatomy. 2021 May;238(5):1179-1190. Epub 2021 Jan 22. doi: 10.1111/joa.13366

Neuböck-Hubinger B, Grubner K, Frigerio D, Hirschenhauser K. Natural science education – a claim for equality, diversity and inclusion in Citizen Science activities. In Austrian Citizen Science Conference 2020 (ACSC2020). Trieste: Sissa Medialab. 2021. 018. (Proceedings of Science (PoS), Vol. 393). doi: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.393.0018

McPherson SC, Sumasgutner P, Downs CT. South African raptors in urban landscapes: a review. The Ostrich : journal of African ornithology. 2021 Apr 9;92(1):41-57. doi: 10.2989/00306525.2021.1900942

De Jong ME, Nicolaus M, Fokkema RW, Loonen MJJE. State dependence explains individual variation in nest defence behaviour in a long-lived bird. Journal of Animal Ecology. 2021 Apr 5;90(4):809-819. Epub 2020 Dec 19. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.13411

Westreicher F, Cieslinski M, Ernst M, Frigerio D, Heinisch B, Hübner T et al. Recognizing failures in citizen science projects: Lessons learned. In Austrian Citizen Science Conference 2020 (ACSC2020). Trieste: Sissa Medialab. 2021. 007. (Proceedings of Science (PoS), Vol. 393). doi: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.393.0007

Rittenschober J, Pühringer-Sturmayr V, Frigerio D. The relevance of a digital platform for the citizen science project NestCams. In Austrian Citizen Science Conference 2020 (ACSC2020). Trieste: Sissa Medialab. 2021. 009. (Proceedings of Science (PoS), Vol. 393). doi: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.393.0009

Jean-Joseph HG, Wacker K, Kotrschal K. Circannual time budget of equally raised wolves and dogs. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 2021 Mar;61(S1):E414-E414. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icab001