The evolution of intelligence in mammalian carnivores

Social carnivores outperform asocial carnivores on an innovative problem

(2016) Natalia Borrego et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Picture object recognition in an American black bear (Ursus americanus)

(2016) Zoe Johnson-Ulrich et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

The evolution of general intelligence

(2016) Judith M. Burkart et al.   BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES

Brain size predicts problem-solving ability in mammalian carnivores

(2016) Sarah Benson-Amram et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Curiosity Search: Producing Generalists by Encouraging Individuals to Continually Explore and Acquire Skills throughout Their Lifetime

(2016) Christopher Stanton et al.   PLoS One

Brains, brawn and sociality: a hyaena's tale

(2015) Kay E. Holekamp et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Measuring social complexity

(2015) Thore J. Bergman et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Long-distance communication facilitates cooperation among wild spotted hyaenas, Crocuta crocuta

(2015) Andrew S. Gersick et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Wild psychometrics: evidence for ‘general’ cognitive performance in wild New Zealand robins, Petroica longipes

(2015) Rachael C. Shaw 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

Evolution of brain elaboration

(2015) S. M. Farris   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Toward wild psychometrics: linking individual cognitive differences to fitness

(2014) Alex Thornton et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

A comparison of problem-solving success between urban and rural house sparrows

(2014) Sándor Papp et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Chimpanzee Intelligence Is Heritable

(2014) William D. Hopkins et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The evolution of self-control

(2014) E. L. MacLean et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Behavioural adjustments for a life in the city

(2013) Daniel Sol et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Innovating Innovation Rate and Its Relationship with Brains, Ecology and General Intelligence

(2013) Louis Lefebvre et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Symbiotic bacteria appear to mediate hyena social odors

(2013) K. R. Theis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The evolutionary origins of modularity

(2013) J. Clune et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

Stability of partner choice among female baboons

(2012) Joan B. Silk et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Bears ‘count’ too: quantity estimation and comparison in black bears, Ursus americanus

(2012) Jennifer Vonk et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Concept formation in American black bears, Ursus americanus

(2012) Jennifer Vonk et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

A comparison of innovative problem-solving abilities between wild and captive spotted hyaenas, Crocuta crocuta

(2012) Sarah Benson-Amram et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Executive Functions

(2012) Adele Diamond   Annual Review of Psychology

Big city life: carnivores in urban environments

(2012) P. W. Bateman et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Animal minds: from computation to evolution

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

Multiple Determinants of Whole and Regional Brain Volume among Terrestrial Carnivorans

(2012) Eli M. Swanson et al.   PLoS One

A Modular Mind? A Test Using Individual Data from Seven Primate Species

(2012) Federica Amici et al.   PLoS One

Innovative problem solving by wild spotted hyenas

(2012) S. Benson-Amram et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Explaining brain size variation: from social to cultural brain

(2012) Carel P. van Schaik et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Evidence for a bacterial mechanism for group-specific social odors among hyenas

(2012) Kevin R. Theis et al.   Scientific Reports

Complex relationship between multiple measures of cognitive ability and male mating success in satin bowerbirds, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus

(2011) Jason Keagy et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Numerical assessment and individual call discrimination by wild spotted hyaenas, Crocuta crocuta

(2011) Sarah Benson-Amram et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Virtual endocasts: an application of computed tomography in the study of brain variation among hyenas

(2011) Sharleen T. Sakai et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Evolutionary Psychology: New Perspectives on Cognition and Motivation

(2011) Leda Cosmides et al.   Annual Review of Psychology

The shared evolutionary history of kinship classifications and language

(2011) Robert M. Seyfarth et al.   BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES

Sex and the Frontal Cortex: A Developmental CT Study in the Spotted Hyena

(2011) Bradley M. Arsznov et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Brain Size and Social Complexity: A Computed Tomography Study in Hyaenidae

(2011) Sharleen T. Sakai et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Modular processes in mind and brain

(2011) Saul Sternberg   COGNITIVE NEUROPSYCHOLOGY

Society, demography and genetic structure in the spotted hyena

(2011) KAY E. HOLEKAMP et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Social learning and evolution: the cultural intelligence hypothesis

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

The evolution of primate general and cultural intelligence

(2011) S. M. Reader et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

I do not exist

(2011) Peter Carruthers   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Behavioral Plasticity Allows Short‐Term Adjustment to a Novel Environment

(2010) Karin Gross et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Greetings promote cooperation and reinforce social bonds among spotted hyaenas

(2010) Jennifer E. Smith et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Chacma baboon mating markets: competitor suppression mediates the potential for intersexual exchange

(2010) P.M.R. Clarke et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Evolutionary forces favoring intragroup coalitions among spotted hyenas and other animals

(2010) Jennifer E. Smith et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Fission of a Spotted Hyena Clan: Consequences of Prolonged Female Absenteeism and Causes of Female Emigration

(2010) K. E. Holekamp et al.   ETHOLOGY

Neocortex Size Predicts Group Size in Carnivores and Some Insectivores

(2010) R. I. M. Dunbar et al.   ETHOLOGY

The neuroscience of human intelligence differences

(2010) Ian J. Deary et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

The Origins and Evolution of Leadership

(2009) Andrew J. King et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Brain-size evolution and sociality in Carnivora

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

Network cohesion, group size and neocortex size in female-bonded Old World primates

(2009) J. Lehmann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Post-weaning maternal effects and the evolution of female dominance in the spotted hyena

(2009) H. E. Watts et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Brain Size Predicts the Success of Mammal Species Introduced into Novel Environments

(2008) Daniel Sol et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Spatial grouping in behaviourally solitary striped hyaenas, Hyaena hyaena

(2008) Aaron P. Wagner et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Revisiting the cognitive buffer hypothesis for the evolution of large brains

(2008) D. Sol   Biology Letters