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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


Ferretti A, Maggini I, Lupi S, Cardinale M, Fusani L. The amount of available food affects diurnal locomotor activity in migratory songbirds during stopover. Scientific Reports. 2019 Dec 13;9(1):19027. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-55404-3

Massen JJM, Behrens F, Martin JS, Stocker M, Brosnan SF. A comparative approach to affect and cooperation. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews . 2019 Dec;107:370-387. Epub 2019 Sept 23. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.09.027

Stueckler S, Ringler M, Pasukonis A, Weinlein S, Hoedl W, Ringler E. Spatio-Temporal Characteristics of the Prolonged Courtship in Brilliant-Thighed Poison Frogs, Allobates femoralis. Herpetologica. 2019 Dec;75(4):268-279. doi: 10.1655/Herpetologica-D-19-00010.1

Fitch WT, Popescu T. The world in a song. Science. 2019 Nov 22;366(6468):944-945. doi: 10.1126/science.aay2214

Richter A, Sieber A, Siebert J, Miczajka-Rußmann V, Zabel J, Ziegler D et al. Storytelling for narrative approaches in citizen science: towards a generalized model. JCOM. 2019 Nov 12;18(6):1-24. A02. doi: 10.22323/2.18060202

Scheiber I, (ed.), Weiß BM, (ed.), Hemetsberger J, (ed.), Kotrschal K, (ed.). The Social Life of Greylag Geese: Patterns, Mechanisms and Evolutionary Function in an Avian Model System. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Frigerio D, Pühringer-Sturmayr V, Neuböck-Hubinger B, Gegendorfer G, Kotrschal K, Hirschenhauser K. Monitoring public awareness about the endangered northern bald ibis: A case study involving primary school children as citizen scientists. PeerJ. 2019 Sept 11;7:e7569. doi: 10.7717/peerj.7569

Szipl G, Depenau M, Kotrschal K, Hemetsberger J, Frigerio D. Costs and benefits of social connectivity in juvenile Greylag geese. Scientific Reports. 2019 Sept 6;9(1):12839. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-49293-9

Kortekaas K, Kotrschal K. Does socio-ecology drive differences in alertness between wolves and dogs when resting? Behavioural Processes. 2019 Sept 1;166:103877. doi: 10.1016/j.beproc.2019.05.024

Ferretti A, Rattenborg NC, Ruf T, McWilliams SR, Cardinale M, Fusani L. Sleeping Unsafely Tucked in to Conserve Energy in a Nocturnal Migratory Songbird. Current Biology. 2019 Aug 19;29(16):2766-2772.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.07.028

Pašukonis A, Loretto MC, Rojas B. How far do tadpoles travel in the rainforest? Parent-assisted dispersal in poison frogs. Evolutionary Ecology. 2019 Aug 15;33(4):613-623. doi: 10.1007/s10682-019-09994-z

Mitoyen C, Quigley C, Fusani L. Evolution and function of multimodal courtship displays. Ethology. 2019 Aug;125(8):503-515. doi: 10.1111/eth.12882

Hirschenhauser K, Frigerio D, Leithinger V, Schenkenfelder I, Neuböck-Hubinger B. Primary pupils, science and a model bird species: Evidence for the efficacy of extracurricular science education. PLoS ONE. 2019 Jul 31;14(7):e0220635. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0220635

Lesch R, Kotrschal K, Schöberl GI, Beetz A, Solomon J, Fitch WT. Talking to Dogs: Companion Animal-Directed Speech in a Stress Test. Animals. 2019 Jul 4;9(7):417. doi: 10.3390/ani9070417

Herbst C, Dunn JC. Fundamental frequency estimation of low-quality electroglottographic signals. Journal of Voice. 2019 Jul;33(4):401-411. doi: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2018.01.003

Norman K, Adriaense J, Nicol C. The impact of early structural enrichment on spatial cognition in layer chicks. Behavioural Processes. 2019 Jul;164:167-174. doi: 10.1016/j.beproc.2019.05.008

Pardo MA, Poole JH, Stoeger AS, Wrege PH, O'Connell-Rodwell CE, Padmalal UK et al. Differences in combinatorial calls among the 3 elephant species cannot be explained by phylogeny. Behavioral Ecology. 2019 Jun 13;30(3):809-820. arz018. doi: 10.1093/beheco/arz018