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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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Massen JJM. Sneaky monkeys: an audience effect on rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) sexual behaviour. American Journal of Primatology. 2012;74:217-228. doi: 10.1002/ajp.21988

Braun A, Walsdorff T, Fraser O, Bugnyar T. Socialized sub-groups in a temporary stable raven flock? Journal of Ornithology. 2012;153(1):97-104. doi: 10.1007/s10336-011-0810-2

Steurer M, Stephan C, Aringer J, Berger W, Aust U. The Multi-Stimulus box: An innovative learning device for the comparative study on object perception and recognition with various types of stimuli. Behavior Research Methods. 2012;44(3):725-732. doi: 10.3758/s13428-011-0179-4

Tebbich S, Stankewitz S, Teschke I. The Relationship Between Foraging, Learning Abilities and Neophobia in Two Species of Darwin’s Finches. Ethology. 2012;118(2):135-146. doi: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2011.02001.x

Tebbich S, Teschke I, Cartmill EA, Stankewitz S. Use of a barbed tool by an adult and a juvenile woodpecker finch (Cactospiza pallida). Behavioural Processes. 2012;89(2):166-171.

Stobbe N, Westphal Fitch G, Aust U, Fitch WT. Visual artificial grammar learning: comparative research on humans, kea (Nestor notabilis) and pigeons (Columba livia). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences. 2012;367(1598, SI):1995-2006. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0096

Stöger A, Heilmann G, Zeppelzauer M, Ganswindt A, Hensman S, Charlton BD. Visualizing sound emission of elephant vocalizations: Evidence for two rumble production types. PLoS ONE. 2012;7(11). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048907

Herler A, Stöger A. Vocalizations and associated behaviour of Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) calves. Behaviour: an international journal of behaviourial biology. 2012;149(6):575-599. doi: 10.1163/156853912X648516

Szipl G, Wascher C, Spreafico M, Barth EK, Kotrschal K, Bugnyar T. Vocal response to stressful situations in Carrion crows (Corvus corone corone). Wiener Tierärztliche Monatsschrift. 2012;99(S1):62.

Böckle M, Szipl G, Bugnyar T. Who wants food? Individual characteristics in raven yells. Animal Behaviour. 2012;84(5):1123-1130. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.08.011

Wascher C, Szipl G, Böckle M, Wilkinson AC. You sound familiar: carrion crows can differentiate between the calls of known and unknown heterospecifics. Animal Cognition. 2012;15(5):1015-1019. doi: 10.1007/s10071-012-0508-8

Horn L, Huber L, Miklósi Á, Range F. The presence of the owner but not the owner’s behaviour influences dogs’ performance in a problem-solving task. 2011. Paper presented at 2nd Transfer-of-Knowledge conference of CompCog, Prague, Czech Republic.

Kenward B, Schlögl HC, Rutz C, Weir AAS, Bugnyar T, Kacelnik A. On the evolutionary and ontogenetic origins of tool-oriented behaviour in New Caledonian crows (Corvus moneduloides). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society: a journal of evolution. 2011 Apr;102(4):870-877. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01613.x

Huber L, Range F, Viranyi Z, Riemer S, Müller C, Kersting E. Can early temperament tests predict behavioral tendencies in dogpuppies? Journal of Veterinary Behavior: Clinical Applications and Research. 2011 Jan;6(1):79. doi: 10.1016/j.jveb.2010.09.012

Charlton B, Reby D. Attention grabbing in red deer sexual calls. Animal Cognition. 2011.

Huber L, Range F, Heyes C. Automatic imitation in dogs. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences. 2011;278:211-217.

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