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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


Ringler M, Pasukonis A, Ringler E. Island of the frogs: Population experiments with the Poison Frog Allobates Femoralis. 2014. Paper presented at XV Congress of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology (ISBE 2014), New York, United States.

Martins M, Fischmeister F, Puig-Waldmüller ES, Oh J, Geißler A, Robinson S et al. Fractal Image Perception provides Novel Insights into Hierarchical Cognition. NeuroImage. 2014 Aug 1;96:300-308. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.03.064

Mueller-Paul JS, Wilkinson A, Aust U, Steurer M, Hall G, Huber L. Touchscreen performance and knowledge transfer in the red-footed tortoise (Chelonoidis carbonaria). Behavioural Processes. 2014 Jul;106:187–192. doi: 10.1016/j.beproc.2014.06.003

Massen JJM, Dusch K, Eldakar O, Gallup A. A thermal window for yawning in humans: Yawning as a Brain Cooling Mechanism. Physiology & Behavior. 2014 May 10;130:145-148. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2014.03.032

Schwab C. Unheimlich schlau: Mögen Sie Krähen Bayerischer Rundfunk. 2014.

Charlton BD, Wyman MT, Locatelli Y, Fitch WT, Reby D. Do red deer hinds prefer stags that produce harsh roars in mate choice contexts? Journal of Zoology. 2014 May;293(1):57-62. doi: 10.1111/jzo.12120

Hillemann F, Bugnyar T, Kotrschal K, Wascher C. Waiting for better, not for more: corvids respond to quality in two delay maintenance tasks. Animal Behaviour. 2014 Apr;90:1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.01.007

Pasukonis A, Loretto MC, Landler L, Ringler M, Hoedl W. Homing trajectories and initial orientation in a Neotropical territorial frog, Allobates femoralis (Dendrobatidae). Frontiers in Zoology. 2014 Mar 25;11(1):29. doi: 10.1186/1742-9994-11-29

Müllensiefen D, Gingras B, Musil J, Stewart L. The musicality of non-musicians: An index for assessing musical sophistication in the general population. PLoS ONE. 2014 Feb 26;9(2):e89642. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0089642

Réka K, Gingras B. Perceiving individuality in harpsichord performance. Frontiers in Psychology. 2014 Feb 24;5:1-13. 141. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00141

Szipl G, Böckle M, Werner SAB, Kotrschal K. Mate Recognition and Expression of Affective State in Croop Calls of Northern Bald Ibis (Geronticus eremita). PLoS ONE. 2014 Feb 5;9(2):e88265. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088265

Massen JJM, Koski SE. Chimps of a feather sit together: chimpanzee friendships are based on homophily in personality. Evolution and Human Behavior. 2014 Jan;35(1):1-8. Epub 2013 Oct 4. doi: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2013.08.008

Solomon J, Beetz A, Schöberl IG, McCune S, Kotrschal K. Attachment Classification in Pet Dogs: Application of Ainsworth’s strange situation and classification procedures to dogs and their human caregivers. 2014. Paper presented at ISAZ 2014: Animals and Humans together: Integration in Society, Vienna, Austria.

Brandl V, Schmidjell T, Kaya T, Rinnhofer L, Gauß G, Kotrschal K. Attitudes towards wolves (Canis lupus occidentalis) and dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) in Austria.. 2014. Paper presented at ISAZ 2014: Animals and Humans together: Integration in Society, Vienna, Austria.

Hebesberger DV, Kotrschal K, Beetz A, Julius H. Behavioral and Physiological Effects of Horse-assisted Therapy for Mother-Child Pairs with Insecure Attachment.. 2014. Paper presented at ISAZ 2014: Animals and Humans together: Integration in Society, Vienna, Austria.

Julius H, Beetz A, Kotrschal K, Turner D, Uvnäs-Moberg K. Bindung zu Tieren. Psychologische und neurobiologische Grundlagen tiergestützter Interventionen. . Hogrefe, 2014. 237 p.