News & Events

08.09.2018
 

CogBio at FWF "Be-Open Festival" 08.-12.September 2018

The Department of Cognitive Biology Vienna is proud to be participating in the Be Open Festival of the FWF as part of their 50 Years FWF festivities.

30.08.2018
 

Sex-specific effects of food supplements on hibernation in free-ranging Common hamsters

Scientific Reports

12.07.2018
 

Developmental behavioral plasticity in foraging mites

The Royal Society Open Science

22.06.2018
 

Master/Diploma Project

Juvenile development and cortisol secretion in European ground squirrels

07.05.2018 13:26
 
19.04.2018
 

Citizen science and animal behaviour

Ethology

Publications


Common LK, O’Connor JA, Dudaniec RY, Peters KJ, Kleindorfer S. Evidence for rapid downward fecundity selection in an ectoparasite (Philornis downsi) with earlier host mortality in Darwin’s finches. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 2020 Apr;33(4):524-533. doi: 10.1111/jeb.13588

Karl S, Boch M, Viranyi Z, Lamm C, Huber L. Training pet dogs for eye-tracking and awake fMRI. Behavior Research Methods. 2020 Apr;52(2):838–856. Epub 2019 Jul 16. doi: 10.3758/s13428-019-01281-7

Schulz-Mirbach T, Ladich F, Mittone A, Olbinado M, Bravin A, Maiditsch IP et al. Auditory chain reaction: Effects of sound pressure and particle motion on auditory structures in fishes. PLoS ONE. 2020 Mar 27;15(3):e0230578. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0230578

Frigerio D, Pühringer-Sturmayr V, Steinbacher C, Rittenschober J, Kleindorfer S. Citizen science, animal behaviour and digital devices: challenges and solutions. Proceedings of Science (PoS). 2020 Mar 27;366. doi: 10.22323/1.366.0002

Kleindorfer S, Dudaniec RY. Hybridization fluctuates with rainfall in Darwin’s tree finches. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society: a journal of evolution. 2020 Mar 1;130(1):79-88. doi: 10.1093/biolinnean/blaa029

Hoeschele M. Novel methodology to assess vocal learning in nature. Learning and Behavior. 2020 Mar;48(1):3-4. Epub 2019 Mar 11. doi: 10.3758/s13420-019-00376-7

Wascher C, Feider B, Bugnyar T, Dufour V. Crows and common ravens do not reciprocally exchange tokens with a conspecific to gain food rewards. Ethology. 2020 Feb;126(2):278-287. doi: 10.1111/eth.12970

Sierro J, Loretto MC, Szipl G, Massen JJM, Bugnyar T. Food calling in wild ravens (Corvus corax) revisited: Who is addressed? Ethology. 2020 Feb;126(2):257-266. Epub 2019 Dec 11. doi: 10.1111/eth.12991

Nebel C, Harl J, Pajot A, Weissenböck H, Amar A, Sumasgutner P. High prevalence and genetic diversity of Haemoproteus columbae (Haemosporida: Haemoproteidae) in feral pigeons Columba livia in Cape Town, South Africa. Parasitology Research. 2020 Feb;119(2):447–463. Epub 2019 Dec 27. doi: 10.1007/s00436-019-06558-6

Šlipogor V, Burkart JM, Martin JS, Bugnyar T, Koski SE. Personality method validation in common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus): Getting the best of both worlds. Journal of Comparative Psychology. 2020 Feb;134(1):52–70. Epub 2019 Jul 22. doi: 10.1037/com0000188

Morales Picard A, Mundry R, Auersperg AM, Boeving ER, Boucherie PH, Bugnyar T et al. Why preen others? Predictors of allopreening in parrots and corvids and comparisons to grooming in great apes. Ethology. 2020 Feb;126(2):207-228. Epub 2019 Dec 16. doi: 10.1111/eth.12999

Puehringer-Sturmayr V, Loretto MCA, Hemetsberger J, Czerny T, Gschwandegger J, Leitsberger M et al. Effects of bio-loggers on behaviour and corticosterone metabolites of Northern Bald Ibises (Geronticus eremita) in the field and in captivity. Animal Biotelemetry. 2020 Jan 15;8(1):2. doi: 10.1186/s40317-019-0191-5

Fitch WT. Animal cognition and the evolution of human language: why we cannot focus solely on communication. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences. 2020 Jan 6;375(1789):20190046. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0046

Oberzaucher E. Antoinette Brown Blackwell: The mother of asymmetric parental investment theory. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences. 2020 Jan;14(1):92-99. doi: 10.1037/ebs0000180

Gallego-Abenza M, Mathevon N, Wheatcroft D. Experience modulates an insect's response to anthropogenic noise. Behavioral Ecology. 2020 Jan;31(1):90-96. doi: 10.1093/beheco/arz159, https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:1079874

Manfredo MJ, Urquiza-Haas EG, Carlos AWD, Bruskotter JT, Dietsch AM. How anthropomorphism is changing the social context of modern wildlife conservation. Biological Conservation. 2020 Jan;241:108297. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2019.108297

Rodríguez Lopez C, Hödl W. Sound radiation pattern of the advertisement call of the highly territorial poison frog Allobates femoralis. Behavioural Processes. 2020 Jan;170:103996. doi: 10.1016/j.beproc.2019.103996

Vanhooland LC, Bugnyar T, Massen JJM. Crows (Corvus corone ssp.) check contingency in a mirror yet fail the mirror-mark test. Journal of Comparative Psychology. 2020;134(2):158–169. Epub 2019. doi: 10.1037/com0000195

Çekin D, Schausberger P. Flexible female choice in haplo-diploid predatory mites Phytoseiulus persimilis. In IOBC-WPRS Bulletin. Vol. 149. 2020. p. 48-49

Urquiza-Haas EG, Martínez RIO, Kotrschal K. Mental State Attribution to Nonhuman Primates and Other Animals by Rural Inhabitants of the Community of Conhuas Near the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. In Urbani B, Lizarralde M, editors, Neotropical Ethnoprimatology: Indigenous Peoples’ Perceptions of and Interactions with Nonhuman Primates. Cham: Springer International Publishing AG . 2020. p. 21-48 doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-27504-4_2

Kowal M, Sorokowski P, Sorokowska A, Dobrowolska M, Pisanski K, Oleszkiewicz A et al. Reasons for Facebook Usage: Data From 46 Countries. Frontiers in Psychology. 2020;11:711. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00711

Huchler K, Schulze CH, Gamauf A, Sumasgutner P. Shifting Breeding Phenology in Eurasian Kestrels Falco tinnunculus: Effects of Weather and Urbanization. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 2020;8:247. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2020.00247

Alberti F, Hofreiter M, Kavcik-Graumann N, Rabeder G. Taxonomic position, chronology and stable isotopes of cave bears from Medvedia jaskýna Cave in the Slovenský raj mts. (Slovakia). In Medvedia jaskyňa Cave in the Slovenský raj Mts. Palaeontological research 2007-2009. 2020. p. 211-219

Laughlan L, Kavcik-Graumann N, Sabol M, Rabeder G. The dentition of cave bears from Medvedia jaskýna Cave in the Slovenský raj mts. (Slovakia). In Medvedia jaskyňa Cave in the Slovenský raj Mts. Palaeontological research 2007-2009. 2020. p. 136-150

Schausberger P, Sato Y. Trans-generational plasticity of alternative reproductive tactics in male spider mites. In IOBC-WPRS Bulletin. Vol. 149. 2020. p. 50-51