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24.11.2023
 

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...

11.10.2023
 
04.10.2023
 

Domestic cat larynges can produce purring frequencies without neural input

 

Authors: Christian T. Herbst, Tamara Prigge, Maxime Garcia, Vit Hampala,...

04.10.2023
 
07.09.2023
 

"From masquerading to blending in: ontogenetic shifts in antipredator camouflage in Wallace’s flying frogs"

Susanne Stückler, Xavier I. Dawkins,...

22.08.2023
 

Congratulations to Anna Fabri for being awarded best poster!!

Publications


Ozaki Y, Tierney A, Pfordresher PQ, McBride JM, Benetos E, Proutskova P et al. Globally, songs and instrumental melodies are slower and higher and use more stable pitches than speech: A Registered Report: A Registered Report. Science Advances. 2024 May 15;10(20):eadm9797. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adm9797

Smeele SQ, Tyndel SA, Klump BC, Alarcón-Nieto G, Aplin LM. callsync: An R package for alignment and analysis of multi-microphone animal recordings. Ecology and Evolution. 2024 May;14(5):e11384. doi: 10.1002/ece3.11384

Lemaire J, Mangione R, Caut S, Bustamante P. Mercury biomagnification in the food web of Agami Pond, Kaw-Roura Nature Reserve, French Guiana. Heliyon. 2024 Apr 15;10(7):e28859. Epub 2024 Mar 29. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e28859

McGetrick J, Fux L, Schullern-Schrattenhofen J, Rault JL, Range F. Do pet dogs reciprocate the receipt of food from familiar and unfamiliar conspecifics? Ethology. 2024 Apr;130(4):e13430. doi: 10.1111/eth.13430

Guran CNA, Lonardo L, Tünte M, Arzberger K, Völter CJ, Hoehl S et al. Investigating belief understanding in children in a nonverbal ambiguous displacement and communication setting. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 2024 Apr;240:105830. Epub 2023. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2023.105830

Santacá M, Gatto E, Dadda M, Bruzzone M, Dal Maschio M, Bisazza A. Exploring the Importance of Environmental Complexity for Newly Hatched Zebrafish. Animals. 2024 Mar 28;14(7):1031. doi: 10.3390/ani14071031

Schausberger P, Nguyen TH, Mustafa A. Early-life intraguild predation risk produces adaptive personalities in predatory mites. Iscience. 2024 Mar 15;27(3):109065. Epub 2024 Jan 31. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.109065

Fitch WT. Sounds of nature: A bioacoustics travelogue. Current Biology. 2024 Feb 26;34(4):R127-R128. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.01.047

Elemans CPH, Jiang W, Jensen MH, Pichler H, Mussman BR, Nattestad J et al. Evolutionary novelties underlie sound production in baleen whales. Nature. 2024 Feb 21;627(8002):123-129. doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-07080-1

Schlippe-Justicia L, Lemaire J, Dittrich C, Mayer M, Bustamante P, Rojas B. Poison in the nursery: Mercury contamination in the tadpole-rearing sites of an Amazonian frog. Science of the Total Environment. 2024 Feb 20;912:169450. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.169450

Bhattacharjee D, Guðjónsdóttir AR, Chova PE, Middelburg E, Jäckels J, de Groot NG et al. Behavioral, physiological, and genetic drivers of coping in a non-human primate. Iscience. 2024 Feb 16;27(2):108890. Epub 2024 Jan 12. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.108890

Cruz-Flores M, Lemaire J, Brault-Favrou M, Christensen-Dalsgaard S, Churlaud C, Descamps S et al. Spatial distribution of selenium-mercury in Arctic seabirds. Environmental Pollution. 2024 Feb 15;343:123110. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2023.123110

Fischer S, Ataalla S, Gabrielidis X, Rohdmann B, Yazar D, Jungwirth A. Comparative conflict resolution: cooperative cichlids outperform less social species. Animal Behaviour. 2024 Feb;208:91-109. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2023.12.006

Jungwirth A, Horsfield A, Nührenberg P, Fischer S. Estimating Cognitive Ability in the Wild: Validation of a Detour Test Paradigm Using a Cichlid Fish (Neolamprologus pulcher). Fishes. 2024 Feb;9(2):50. doi: 10.3390/fishes9020050