Animal Cognition in an Urbanised World

Acquisition of object-robbing and object/food-bartering behaviours: a culturally maintained token economy in free-ranging long-tailed macaques

(2021) Jean-Baptiste Leca et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Urban herring gulls use human behavioural cues to locate food

(2020) Madeleine Goumas et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Linking animal personality to problem-solving performance in urban common brushtail possums

(2020) Katie K.Y. Wat et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Food availability limits avian reproduction in the city: An experimental study on great tits Parus major

(2020) Gábor Seress et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Behavioural plasticity is associated with reduced extinction risk in birds

(2020) Simon Ducatez et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Brain Size and Life History Interact to Predict Urban Tolerance in Birds

(2020) Ferran Sayol et al.   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Host Cognition and Parasitism in Birds: A Review of the Main Mechanisms

(2020) Simon Ducatez et al.   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

White and Amber Light at Night Disrupt Sleep Physiology in Birds

(2020) Anne E. Aulsebrook et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The ecological and evolutionary consequences of systemic racism in urban environments

(2020) Christopher J. Schell et al.   SCIENCE

Can Cognitive Ability Give Invasive Species the Means to Succeed? A Review of the Evidence

(2020) Birgit Szabo et al.   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Theory and measurement of environmental unpredictability

(2020) Ethan S. Young et al.   EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR

Urban noise restricts, fragments, and lightens sleep in Australian magpies

(2020) Farley Connelly et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

New Caledonian crows infer the weight of objects from observing their movements in a breeze

(2019) Sarah A. Jelbert et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Dynamic Relationships between Information Transmission and Social Connections

(2019) Ipek G. Kulahci et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Natural Selection and Spatial Cognition in Wild Food-Caching Mountain Chickadees

(2019) Benjamin R. Sonnenberg et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Behavioral flexibility of a generalist carnivore

(2019) Sarah E. Daniels et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

It’s a trap! Invasive common mynas learn socially about control-related cues

(2019) Marie C Diquelou et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

A case for environmental statistics of early-life effects

(2019) Willem E. Frankenhuis et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Food caching in city birds: urbanization and exploration do not predict spatial memory in scatter hoarders

(2019) Megan J. Thompson et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Decreased vigilance or habituation to humans? Mechanisms on increased boldness in urban animals

(2019) Kenta Uchida et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Behaviour, life history and persistence in novel environments

(2019) Joan Maspons et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The reach of gene–culture coevolution in animals

(2019) Hal Whitehead et al.   Nature Communications

Counter-Culture: Does Social Learning Help or Hinder Adaptive Response to Human-Induced Rapid Environmental Change?

(2019) Brendan Barrett et al.   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Herring gulls respond to human gaze direction

(2019) Madeleine Goumas et al.   Biology Letters

Social learning about dangerous people by wild jackdaws

(2019) Victoria E. Lee et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Larger group sizes facilitate the emergence and spread of innovations in a group-living bird

(2019) Benjamin J. Ashton et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The cognition of ‘nuisance’ species

(2018) Lisa P. Barrett et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

A battle of wits? Problem-solving abilities in invasive eastern grey squirrels and native Eurasian red squirrels

(2018) Pizza Ka Yee Chow et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Culture and cultural evolution in birds: a review of the evidence

(2018) Lucy M. Aplin   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Individuals in larger groups are more successful on spatial discrimination tasks

(2018) Ellis J.G. Langley et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Animals Remember Previous Facial Expressions that Specific Humans Have Exhibited

(2018) Leanne Proops et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Ecological correlates of mammal β-diversity in Amazonian land-bridge islands: from small- to large-bodied species

(2018) Ana Filipa Palmeirim et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Rapid hybrid speciation in Darwin's finches

(2018) Laura M. Zahn   SCIENCE

What, where and when: spatial foraging decisions in primates

(2018) Cinzia Trapanese et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Cognitive performance is linked to group size and affects fitness in Australian magpies

(2018) Benjamin J. Ashton et al.   NATURE

How does cognition shape social relationships?

(2018) Claudia A. F. Wascher et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The gut microbiome as a driver of individual variation in cognition and functional behaviour

(2018) Gabrielle L. Davidson et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Linking personality and cognition: a meta-analysis

(2018) Liam R. Dougherty et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Measuring and understanding individual differences in cognition

(2018) Neeltje J. Boogert et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Understanding the population consequences of disturbance

(2018) Enrico Pirotta et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Wild jackdaws are wary of objects that violate expectations of animacy

(2018) Alison L. Greggor et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Does artificial light pollution impair problem-solving success in peafowl?

(2017) Jessica L. Yorzinski et al.   ETHOLOGY

Behavioural response to song and genetic divergence in two subspecies of white-crowned sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys )

(2017) Sara E. Lipshutz et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The evolution of cognitive mechanisms in response to cultural innovations

(2017) Arnon Lotem et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The extension of biology through culture

(2017) Andrew Whiten et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

What makes specialized food-caching mountain chickadees successful city slickers?

(2017) Dovid Y. Kozlovsky et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Evolution of life in urban environments

(2017) Marc T. J. Johnson et al.   SCIENCE

The development of support intuitions and object causality in juvenile Eurasian jays (Garrulus glandarius)

(2017) Gabrielle Davidson et al.   Scientific Reports

Happy to breed in the city? Urban food resources limit reproductive output in Western Jackdaws

(2017) Eva Meyrier et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Social transmission of avoidance among predators facilitates the spread of novel prey

(2017) Rose Thorogood et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

A problem with problem solving: motivational traits, but not cognition, predict success on novel operant foraging tasks

(2016) Jayden O. van Horik et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Street smart: faster approach towards litter in urban areas by highly neophobic corvids and less fearful birds

(2016) Alison L. Greggor et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Habituation and sensitization: new thoughts about old ideas

(2016) Daniel T. Blumstein   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Coping with a changing soundscape: avoidance, adjustments and adaptations

(2016) Dominique A. Potvin   ANIMAL COGNITION

Innovativeness and the effects of urbanization on risk-taking behaviors in wild Barbados birds

(2016) Simon Ducatez et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Antarctic skuas recognize individual humans

(2016) Won Young Lee et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Animal cognition in a human-dominated world

(2016) Andrea S. Griffin et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Problem-solving performance and reproductive success of great tits in urban and forest habitats

(2016) Bálint Preiszner et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Adjusting foraging strategies: a comparison of rural and urban common mynas (Acridotheres tristis)

(2016) Ira G. Federspiel et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Avian movements in a modern world: cognitive challenges

(2016) Claudia Mettke-Hofmann   ANIMAL COGNITION

Habituation to human disturbance is faster in urban than rural house sparrows

(2016) Ernő Vincze et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Harnessing learning biases is essential for applying social learning in conservation

(2016) Alison L. Greggor et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Urban driven phenotypic changes: empirical observations and theoretical implications for eco-evolutionary feedback

(2016) Marina Alberti et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

How humans drive speciation as well as extinction

(2016) J. W. Bull et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Capuchins, space, time and memory: an experimental test of what-where-when memory in wild monkeys

(2016) Charles H. Janson   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Social learning in nest-building birds: a role for familiarity

(2016) Lauren M. Guillette et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Genome-culture coevolution promotes rapid divergence of killer whale ecotypes

(2016) Andrew D. Foote et al.   Nature Communications

Environmental variation and the evolution of large brains in birds

(2016) Ferran Sayol et al.   Nature Communications

Contagious risk taking: social information and context influence wild jackdaws’ responses to novelty and risk

(2016) Alison L. Greggor et al.   Scientific Reports

Cognitive differences between orang-utan species: a test of the cultural intelligence hypothesis

(2016) Sofia I. F. Forss et al.   Scientific Reports

Urbanization affects neophilia and risk-taking at bird-feeders

(2016) Piotr Tryjanowski et al.   Scientific Reports

Innovative problem solving in birds: a cross-species comparison of two highly successful passerines

(2015) Andrea S. Griffin et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Wild jackdaws, Corvus monedula , recognize individual humans and may respond to gaze direction with defensive behaviour

(2015) Gabrielle L. Davidson et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The town bird and the country bird: problem solving and immunocompetence vary with urbanization

(2015) Jean-Nicolas Audet et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Environmental complexity favors the evolution of learning

(2015) Slimane Dridi et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Variation at the DRD4 locus is associated with wariness and local site selection in urban black swans

(2015) Wouter F.D. van Dongen et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Early-Life Stress Triggers Juvenile Zebra Finches to Switch Social Learning Strategies

(2015) Damien R. Farine et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Dogs Can Discriminate Emotional Expressions of Human Faces

(2015) Corsin A. Müller et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Accelerated behavioural development changes fine-scale search behaviour and spatial memory in honey bees (Apis melliferaL.)

(2015) Tomokazu Ushitani et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Traffic noise affects embryo mortality and nestling growth rates in captive zebra finches

(2015) Dominique A. Potvin et al.   Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A-Ecological Genetics and Physiology

Sleep and memory in mammals, birds and invertebrates

(2015) Albrecht P. Vorster et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Increased tolerance to humans among disturbed wildlife

(2015) Diogo S. M. Samia et al.   Nature Communications

Commonness and ecology, but not bigger brains, predict urban living in birds

(2015) Svein Dale et al.   BMC ECOLOGY

Toward wild psychometrics: linking individual cognitive differences to fitness

(2014) Alex Thornton et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Innovation and problem solving: A review of common mechanisms

(2014) Andrea S. Griffin et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Hard times in the city – attractive nest sites but insufficient food supply lead to low reproduction rates in a bird of prey

(2014) Petra Sumasgutner et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Does human pedestrian behaviour influence risk assessment in a successful mammal urban adapter?

(2014) P. W. Bateman et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Experimentally induced innovations lead to persistent culture via conformity in wild birds

(2014) Lucy M. Aplin et al.   NATURE

Does Invasion Success Reflect Superior Cognitive Ability? A Case Study of Two Congeneric Lizard Species (Lampropholis, Scincidae)

(2014) Chalene N. Bezzina et al.   PLoS One

Elephants can determine ethnicity, gender, and age from acoustic cues in human voices

(2014) K. McComb et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Comparative cognition for conservationists

(2014) Alison L. Greggor et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Consistent individual differences in human social learning strategies

(2014) Lucas Molleman et al.   Nature Communications

Milk bottles revisited: social learning and individual variation in the blue tit, Cyanistes caeruleus

(2013) Lucy M. Aplin et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Behavioural adjustments for a life in the city

(2013) Daniel Sol et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

An overview of the evolutionary causes and consequences of behavioural plasticity

(2013) Emilie C. Snell-Rood   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Immediate, independent adjustment of call pitch and amplitude in response to varying background noise by silvereyes (Zosterops lateralis)

(2013) D. A. Potvin et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Pre- and post-natal stress have opposing effects on social information use

(2013) N. J. Boogert et al.   Biology Letters

European birds adjust their flight initiation distance to road speed limits

(2013) P. Legagneux et al.   Biology Letters

Neurobiological Consequences of Sleep Deprivation

(2013) Karim Alkadhi et al.   Current Neuropharmacology

Do American Crows Pay Attention to Human Gaze and Facial Expressions?

(2013) Barbara Clucas et al.   ETHOLOGY

Seasonal female brain plasticity in processing social vs. sexual vocal signals

(2013) Hugo Cousillas et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Urbanization and its effects on personality traits: a result of microevolution or phenotypic plasticity?

(2013) Ana Catarina Miranda et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Experimental evidence for an impact of anthropogenic noise on dawn chorus timing in urban birds

(2013) A. Arroyo-Solís et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Candidate gene polymorphisms for behavioural adaptations during urbanization in blackbirds

(2013) J. C. Mueller et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Did tool-use evolve with enhanced physical cognitive abilities?

(2013) I. Teschke et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

New Caledonian crows attend to multiple functional properties of complex tools

(2013) J. J. H. St Clair et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The fourth dimension of tool use: temporally enduring artefacts aid primates learning to use tools

(2013) D. M. Fragaszy et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

If at first you don't succeed... Studies of ontogeny shed light on the cognitive demands of habitual tool use

(2013) E. J. M. Meulman et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Tool use as adaptation

(2013) D. Biro et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Long-tailed macaques select mass of stone tools according to food type

(2013) M. D. Gumert et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Ability of North Island Robins to Discriminate between Humans Is Related to Their Behavioural Type

(2013) Craig Barnett et al.   PLoS One

Hunted Woolly Monkeys (Lagothrix poeppigii) Show Threat-Sensitive Responses to Human Presence

(2013) Sarah Papworth et al.   PLoS One

Do crows reason about causes or agents? The devil is in the controls

(2013) Neeltje J. Boogert et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Clever crows or unbalanced birds?

(2013) S. Dymond et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Anthropogenic environments exert variable selection on cranial capacity in mammals

(2013) E. C. Snell-Rood et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Elevation-related differences in memory and the hippocampus in mountain chickadees, Poecile gambeli

(2012) Cody A. Freas et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Innovative problem solving in wild meerkats

(2012) Alex Thornton et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The social side of human-wildlife interaction: wildlife can learn harmful behaviours from each other

(2012) R. Donaldson et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

Behavioural responses of wildlife to urban environments

(2012) Hélène Lowry et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Specificity and multiplicity in the recognition of individuals: implications for the evolution of social behaviour

(2012) R. H. Wiley   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Incorporation of cigarette butts into nests reduces nest ectoparasite load in urban birds: new ingredients for an old recipe?

(2012) M. Suarez-Rodriguez et al.   Biology Letters

Cognitive Ability Influences Reproductive Life History Variation in the Wild

(2012) Ella F. Cole et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Ecological implications of behavioural syndromes

(2012) Andrew Sih et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Linking behavioural syndromes and cognition: a behavioural ecology perspective

(2012) A. Sih et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Individual variation in cognitive performance: developmental and evolutionary perspectives

(2012) A. Thornton et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Passerine Birds Breeding under Chronic Noise Experience Reduced Fitness

(2012) Julia Schroeder et al.   PLoS One

New Caledonian crows reason about hidden causal agents

(2012) A. H. Taylor et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cross-modal individual recognition in domestic horses (Equus caballus) extends to familiar humans

(2012) L. Proops et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The impact of learning on sexual selection and speciation

(2012) Machteld N. Verzijden et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Sometimes tool use is not the key: no evidence for cognitive adaptive specializations in tool-using woodpecker finches

(2011) I. Teschke et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Toward an integration of evolutionary biology and ecosystem science

(2011) Blake Matthews et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

THE EVOLUTION OF TEACHING

(2011) L. Fogarty et al.   EVOLUTION

Evolution and behavioural responses to human-induced rapid environmental change

(2011) Andrew Sih et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Social learning in birds and its role in shaping a foraging niche

(2011) T. Slagsvold et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Social learning and evolution: the cultural intelligence hypothesis

(2011) C. P. van Schaik et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Social learning spreads knowledge about dangerous humans among American crows

(2011) H. N. Cornell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Variation in memory and the hippocampus across populations from different climates: a common garden approach

(2011) T. C. Roth et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Cognitive culture: theoretical and empirical insights into social learning strategies

(2011) Luke Rendell et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Can behavioral and personality traits influence the success of unintentional species introductions?

(2011) David G. Chapple et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Lasting recognition of threatening people by wild American crows

(2010) John M. Marzluff et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Behavioural responses to human-induced environmental change

(2010) Ulla Tuomainen et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Social learning in a non-social reptile (Geochelone carbonaria)

(2010) A. Wilkinson et al.   Biology Letters

Behavioral flexibility and species invasions: the adaptive flexibility hypothesis

(2010) T.F. Wright et al.   ETHOLOGY ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

What makes an urban bird?

(2010) KARL L. EVANS et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Chronic prenatal lead exposure impairs long-term memory in day old chicks

(2010) Zhaoming Zhong et al.   NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS

Songs of Darwin's finches diverge when a new species enters the community

(2010) B. R. Grant et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

New behavioural trait adopted or rejected by observing heterospecific tutor fitness

(2010) J.-T. Seppanen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Selective attention to philopatric models causes directed social learning in wild vervet monkeys

(2010) E. van de Waal et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Ecological Significance of Tool Use in New Caledonian Crows

(2010) C. Rutz et al.   SCIENCE

Developmental evidence for foraging traditions in wild bottlenose dolphins

(2009) Brooke L. Sargeant et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Indian mynahs, Acridotheres tristis, learn about dangerous places by observing the fate of others

(2009) Andrea S. Griffin et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

A behavioural mechanism explaining noise-dependent frequency use in urban birdsong

(2009) Wouter Halfwerk et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The repeatability of behaviour: a meta-analysis

(2009) Alison M. Bell et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Social influences on ant-dipping acquisition in the wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) of Bossou, Guinea, West Africa

(2009) Tatyana Humle et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Urban mockingbirds quickly learn to identify individual humans

(2009) D. J. Levey et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rooks perceive support relations similar to six-month-old babies

(2009) C. D. Bird et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Components of change in the evolution of learning and unlearned preference

(2009) A. S. Dunlap et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Schooling and learning: early social environment predicts social learning ability in the guppy, Poecilia reticulata

(2008) Ben B. Chapman et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Socially learned foraging behaviour in wild black bears, Ursus americanus

(2008) Rachel Mazur et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Darwin's mistake: Explaining the discontinuity between human and nonhuman minds

(2008) Derek C. Penn et al.   BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES

Antipredator behavior in blackbirds: habituation complements risk allocation

(2008) Iñaki Rodriguez-Prieto et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Revisiting the cognitive buffer hypothesis for the evolution of large brains

(2008) D. Sol   Biology Letters

DISTINGUISHING STRESSORS ACTING ON LAND BIRD COMMUNITIES IN AN URBANIZING ENVIRONMENT

(2008) Matthew D. Schlesinger et al.   ECOLOGY

EVOLUTION ON A LOCAL SCALE: DEVELOPMENTAL, FUNCTIONAL, AND GENETIC BASES OF DIVERGENCE IN BILL FORM AND ASSOCIATED CHANGES IN SONG STRUCTURE BETWEEN ADJACENT HABITATS

(2008) Alexander V. Badyaev et al.   EVOLUTION

Subtle cues of predation risk: starlings respond to a predator's direction of eye-gaze

(2008) J. Carter et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Do New Caledonian crows solve physical problems through causal reasoning?

(2008) A.H Taylor et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Costs of group-living for a normally solitary forager: effects of provisioning tourism on southern stingrays Dasyatis americana

(2007) CAD Semeniuk et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Human influences on rates of phenotypic change in wild animal populations

(2007) ANDREW P. HENDRY et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY