Publications


Wilkins AS, Wrangham RW, Fitch WT. The neural crest/domestication syndrome hypothesis, explained: reply to Johnsson, Henriksen, and Wright. Genetics: a periodical record of investigations bearing on heredity and variation. 2021 Sept 1;219(1):iyab098.

Chow PKY, Davies JR, Bapat A, Bayern AMPV. Tracking Changes of Hidden Food: Spatial Pattern Learning in Two Macaw Species. Birds. 2021 Sept;2(3):285-301. doi: 10.3390/birds2030021

Adriaense J, Slipogor V, Hintze S, Marshall L, Lamm C, Bugnyar T. Watching others in a positive state does not induce optimism bias in common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus), but leads to behaviour indicative of competition. Animal Cognition. 2021 Sept;24(5):1039–1056. doi: 10.1007/s10071-021-01497-1

Stöger-Horwath A, Baotic A. Vocal Creativity in Elephant Sound Production. Biology. 2021 Aug 5;10(8):750. doi: 10.3390/biology10080750

Common LK, Sumasgutner P, Dudaniec RY, Colombelli-Négrel D, Kleindorfer S. Avian vampire fly (Philornis downsi) mortality differs across Darwin’s finch host species. Scientific Reports. 2021 Aug 4;11:15832. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-94996-7

Li H, Kepinska O, Caballero JN, Zekelman L, Marks RA, Uchikoshi Y et al. Decoding the role of the cerebellum in the early stages of reading acquisition. Cortex. 2021 Aug;141:262-279. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2021.02.033

Nemeth M, Eisenschenk I, Engelmann A, Esser FM, Kokodynska M, Szewczak VF et al. Flaxseed oil as omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid source modulates cortisol concentrations and social dominance in male and female guinea pigs. Hormones and Behavior. 2021 Aug;134:105025. doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2021.105025

Stocker M, Prosl J, Vanhooland LC, Horn L, Bugnyar T, Canoine V et al. Measuring salivary mesotocin in birds - Seasonal differences in ravens' peripheral mesotocin levels. Hormones and Behavior. 2021 Aug;134:105015. doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2021.105015

Sumasgutner P, Buij R, McClure CJW, Shaw P, Dykstra CR, Kumar N et al. Raptor research during the COVID-19 pandemic provides invaluable opportunities for conservation biology. Biological Conservation. 2021 Aug;260:109149. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109149

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

Nebel C, Sumasgutner P, Rodseth E, Ingle RA, Childs DZ, Curtis‐Scott O et al. Multigenerational pedigree analysis of wild individually marked black sparrowhawks suggests that dark plumage coloration is a dominant autosomal trait. Journal of Zoology. 2021 Jul 14;315(2):123-130. doi: 10.1111/jzo.12913

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

Kislinger L, Kotrschal K. Hunters and Gatherers of Pictures: Why Photography Has Become a Human Universal. Frontiers in Psychology. 2021 Jun 8;12:654474. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.654474

Wenig K, Bach R, Czaczkes T. Hard limits to cognitive flexibility: ants can learn to ignore but not avoid pheromone trails. Journal of Experimental Biology. 2021 Jun 4;224(11):jeb242454. doi: 10.1242/jeb.242454

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

Fischer S, Jungwirth A. Tanganjikasee – ein "Traumsee" für die Wissenschaft. derStandard. 2021 Jun.

Nebel C, Amar A, Hegemann A, Isaksson C, Sumasgutner P. Parental morph combination does not influence innate immune function in nestlings of a colour-polymorphic African raptor. Scientific Reports. 2021 May 26;11(1):11053. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-90291-7

Bates AE, Primack RB, PAN-Environment Working Group, Biggar BS, Bird TJ, Clinton ME et al. 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

Colombelli-Négrel D, Kleindorfer S. Behavioural response to songs between genetically diverged allopatric populations of Darwin’s small tree finch in the Galápagos. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 2021 May;34(5):816-829. doi: 10.1111/jeb.13783