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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 E, Spring S, Lehner M, Weinlein S, Beck K, Huber L et al.. Clutch cannibalism by adult poison frogs. 2019. Paper presented at 20th European Congress of Herpetology, Mailand, Italy.

Ringler M, Pasukonis A, Ringler E. Compost dwellers: strategic feeding and use of indirect cues in actively foraging poison frogs. 2019. Paper presented at 20th European Congress of Herpetology, Mailand, Italy.

Uhl F, Ringler M, Miller R, Deventer S, Bugnyar T, Schwab C. Counting crows: population structure and group size variation in an urban population of crows. Behavioral Ecology. 2019;30(1):57–67. Epub 2018 Dec 8. doi: 10.1093/beheco/ary157

Kleindorfer S, (ed.), Fessl B, (ed.), Peters K, Anchundia Gonzalez DJ. Field Guide. Resident land birds of Galapagos. Charles Darwin Foundation, 2019.

Fusani L. Field Techniques in Hormones and Behavior. In Choe JC, editor, Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior. 2. ed. Elsevier. 2019. p. 488-494 doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-809633-8.01052-9

Kleindorfer S, (ed.), Fessl B, (ed.), Peters K, Anchundia Gonzalez DJ. Guía de campo. Aves terrestres residentes de Galápagos. Charles Darwin Foundation, 2019.

Rodríguez Lopez C, Amézquita A, Hödl W, Pasukonis A, Ringler M. Perch higher and be quieter: acoustic adaptation and sound radiation patterns in Allobates femoralis. 2019. Paper presented at Behaviour 2019, Chicago, Illinois, United States.

Gutscher L, Pucher M, Lozo C, Höschele M, Mann D. Statistical parametric synthesis of budgerigar songs. In Proceedings of the 10th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop. ISCA. 2019. p. 127-131 doi: 10.21437/SSW.2019-23

Reid E, Naikatani A, Keppel G, Kleindorfer S. The conservation value of secondary vegetation for Fijian woodland birds. Emu. 2019;119(3):286-295. Epub 2019 May 9. doi: 10.1080/01584197.2019.1607757

Laumer IB, Call J, Bugnyar T, Auersperg AMI. Spontaneous innovation of hook-bending and unbending in orangutans (Pongo abelii). Scientific Reports. 2018 Dec 1;8(1):16518. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-34607-0

Pfabigan D, Wucherer A, Wang X, Pan X, Lamm C, Han S. Cultural influences on the processing of social comparison feedback signals – An ERP study. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 2018 Dec;13(12):1317–1326. doi: 10.1093/scan/nsy097

Frigerio D, Kotrschal K, Fabro C, Puehringer-Sturmayr V, Iaiza L, Hemetsberger J et al. Social context modulates digestive efficiency in greylag geese (Anser anser). Scientific Reports. 2018 Nov 7;8:16498. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-34337-3

Pühringer-Sturmayr V, Gegendorfer G, Rittenschober J, Szipl G, Frigerio D. Involving pupils/citizens in long-term behavioural biology research: Lessons learnt and future perspectives. In Heigl F, Dörler D, Ernst M, editors, Proceedings of the Austrian Citizen Science Conference. Frontiers Research Foundation. 2018. p. 34-38

Smith S, Fusani L, Boglarka B, Sanchez-Donoso I, Marasco V. Lack of introgression of Japanese quail in a captive population of common quail. European Journal of Wildlife Research. 2018 Oct 1;64(5):51. doi: 10.1007/s10344-018-1209-7

Monti F, Grémillet D, Sforzi A, Dominici JM, Bagur RT, Navarro AM et al. Migration distance affects stopover use but not travel speed: contrasting patterns between long- and short-distance migrating ospreys. Journal of Avian Biology. 2018 Oct 1;49(10):e01839. doi: 10.1111/jav.01839