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Publications


Baotic A, Schiefer P, Stöger-Horwath A. Vom Alltag eines Elefantenforschers Medienportal Universität Wien. 2015.

Baotic A, Schiefer P, Stöger-Horwath A. Ein Lautsprecher wie ein Elefant Medienportal Universität Wien. 2015.

O'Hara M, Auersperg A, Bugnyar T, Huber L. Inference by Exclusion in Goffin Cockatoos (Cacatua goffini). PLoS ONE. 2015 Aug 5;10(8):e0134894. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0134894

Höschele M, Sturdy C, Guillette L, Fitch WT. Acoustic Pattern Learning in Birds and Humans. In Behaviour 2015. 2015

O'Hara M, Auersperg A, Rößler T, Federspiel I, Gajdon G, Schwing R et al. Exclusion, what else? Testing for inference skills using an abstract touch-screen approach. In Behaviour 2015 Abstracts. 2015

Sterck EHM, Olesen CU, Massen JJM. No costly prosociality among related long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis). Journal of Comparative Psychology. 2015 Aug;129(3):275-282. doi: 10.1037/a0039180

Miller R, Bugnyar T, Pölzl K, Schwab C. Differences in exploration behaviour in common ravens and carrion crows during development and across social context. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 2015 Jul;69(7):1209–1220. doi: 10.1007/s00265-015-1935-8

Massen JJM, Lambert M, Schiestl M, Bugnyar T. Subadult ravens generally don't transfer valuable tokens to conspecifics when there is nothing to gain for themselves. Frontiers in Psychology. 2015 Jun 30;6:885. 885. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00885

Sonnweber RS, Ravignani A, Stobbe N, Schiestl G, Wallner B, Fitch WT. Rank-dependent grooming patterns and cortisol alleviation in Barbary macaques. American Journal of Primatology. 2015 Jun;77(6):688-700. Epub 2015 Mar 10. doi: 10.1002/ajp.22391

Fischer S. Rearing-Group Size Determines Social Competence and Brain Structure in a Cooperatively Breeding Cichlid. The American Naturalist: a bi-monthly journal devoted to the advancement and correlation of the biological sciences. 2015 May 4.

Sonnweber R, Ravignani A, Fitch WT. Non-adjacent visual dependency learning in chimpanzees. Animal Cognition. 2015 May;18(3):733-745. Epub 2015 Jan 21. doi: 10.1007/s10071-015-0840-x

Dias Martins MDJ, Muršič Z, Oh J, Fitch WT. Representing visual recursion does not require verbal or motor resources. Cognitive Psychology. 2015 Mar 1;77:20–41. doi: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2015.01.004

O'Hara M, Gajdon G, Huber L. The advantage of objects over images in discrimination and reversal learning by kea, Nestor notabilis. Animal Behaviour. 2015 Mar 1;101:51-60. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.12.022

J. Kubitza R, Bugnyar T, Schwab C. Pair bond characteristics and maintenance in free-flying jackdaws Corvus monedula: effects of social context and season. Journal of Avian Biology. 2015 Mar;46(2):206–215. doi: 10.1111/jav.00508

Gingras B, Honing H, Peretz I, Trainor L, Fisher S. Defining the biological bases of individual differences in musicality. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences. 2015 Feb 2;370(1664):20140092. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0092

Lovari S, Pokheral CP, Jnawali SR, Fusani L, Ferretti F. Coexistence of the tiger and the common leopard in a prey-rich area: the role of prey partitioning. Journal of Zoology. 2015 Feb 1;295(2):122-131. doi: 10.1111/jzo.12192

Auersperg A, van Horik JO, Bugnyar T, Kacelnik A, Emery N, von Bayern A. Combinatory actions during object play in psittaciformes (Diopsittaca nobilis, Pionites melanocephala, Cacatua goffini) and corvids (Corvus corax, C. monedula, C. moneduloides). Journal of Comparative Psychology. 2015 Feb;129(1):62–71. doi: 10.1037/a0038314

Aust U, Braunöder E. Transfer between local and global processing levels by pigeons (Columba livia) and humans (Homo sapiens) in exemplar- and rule-based categorization tasks. Journal of Comparative Psychology. 2015 Feb;129(1):1-16. Epub 2014 Aug 25. doi: 10.1037/a0037691

Viljoen JJ, Ganswindt A, Reynecke C, Stöger-Horwath A, Langbauer Jr. WR. Vocal stress associated with a translocation of a family herd of African elephants (Loxodonta africana) in the Kruger National Park, South Africa. Bioacoustics : the international journal of animal sound and its recording. 2015 Jan 1;24(1):1-12. doi: 10.1080/09524622.2014.906320

M. Guillette L, Hahn A, Höschele M, Przyslupski AM, Sturdy C. Individual differences in learning speed, performance accuracy and exploratory behaviour in black-capped chickadees. Animal Cognition. 2015 Jan;18(1):165–178. doi: 10.1007/s10071-014-0787-3

Szipl G, Böckle M, Wascher C, Spreafico M, Bugnyar T. With whom to dine? Ravens' responses to food-associated calls depend on individual characteristics of the caller. Animal Behaviour. 2015 Jan;99(1):33-42. Epub 2014 Nov 21. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.10.015

Bowling D, Purves D. A biological rationale for musical consonance. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). 2015;112(36):11155-11160. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1505768112

Reber S, Nishimura T, Janisch J, Robertson M, Fitch WT. A Chinese alligator in heliox: formant frequencies in a crocodilian. Journal of Experimental Biology. 2015;218(15):2442-2447. doi: 10.1242/jeb.119552

Massen JJM, Church A, Gallup AC. Auditory Contagious Yawning in Humans: An Investigation into Affiliation and Status Effects. Frontiers in Psychology. 2015;6:1735. 1735. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01735

Kotrschal K. Biologie oder Moral? In Barta H, Lang M, Rollinger R, editors, Prozeßrecht und Eid: Recht und Rechtsfindung in antiken Kulturen. 2015. (Philippika: altertumswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen , Vol. 86).