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Animal Cognition avesAronov, D., Andalman, A.S. & Fee, M.S. 2008. A specialized forebrain circuit for vocal babbling in the juvenile songbird. Science 320: 630-634.     May 2008  



Animal Cognition avesArnold, K.E., Ramsay, S.L., Donaldson, C.& Adam, A. 2007. Parental prey selection affects risk-taking behaviour and spatial learning in avian offspring. Proc. R. Soc. B. 274: 2563-2569.        October 2007



Animal Cognition avesAshwell, K.W.S. & Scofield, R.P. 2008. Big birds and their brains: Paleoneurology of the New Zealand Moa. Brain, Behavior and Evolution. 71: 151-166.       January 2008



Animal Cognition avesBallerini, M., Cabibbo, N., Candelier, R., Cavagna, A., Cisbani, E., Giardina, I., Lecomte, V., Orlandi, A., Parisi, G., Procaccini, A., Viale, M. & Zdravkovic, V. 2008. Interaction ruling animal collective behavior depends on topological rather than metric distance: evidence from a field study. PNAS 105: 1232-1237.         January 2008


Animal Cognition avesBalsby, T.J.S. & Scarl, J.C. 2008. Sex-specific responses to vocal convergence and divergence of contact calls in orange-fronted conures (Aratinga canicularis). Proc. R. Soc. B. 275: 2147-2154.     September 2008



Animal Cognition avesBarnett, C.A., Bateson, M. & Rowe, C. 2007. State-dependent decision making: educated predators strategically trade off the costs and benefits of consuming aposematic prey. Behavioral Ecology 18: 645-651.          July 2007


Animal Cognition avesBlumstein, D.T. & Moller, A.P. 2008. Is sociality associated with high longevity in North American birds? Biology Letters 4:146-148.    April 2008 



Animal Cognition avesBoogert, N.J., Reader S.M., Laland, K.N. 2006. The relation between social rank, neophobia and individual learning in starlings. Animal Behaviour 72: 1229-1239.            December 2006



Animal Cognition avesBrumm, H., Slater, P. 2007. Animal communication: timing counts. Current Biology 17: R521-R523
July 2007



Animal Cognition avesBugnyar, T., Schwab, C., Schloegl, C., Kotrschal, K. & Heinrich, B. 2007. Ravens judge competitors through experience with play caching. Current Biology 17: 1804-1808.        October 2007



Animal Cognition avesBurt, J.M., O'Loghlen, A.L., Templeton, C.N., Campbell, S.E. & Beecher, M.D. 2007. Assessing the importance of social factors in bird song learning: a test using computer-simulated tutors. Ethology 113: 917-925.       October 2007



Animal Cognition avesCadieu, N., Winterton, P. & Cadieu, J.C. 2008. Social transmission of food handling in the context of triadic interactions between adults and young canaries (Serinus canaria). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 62: 795-804.       March 2008



Animal Cognition avesCarter, J., Lyons, N.J., Cole, H.L. & Goldsmith, A.R. 2008. Subtle cues of predation risk: starlings respond to a predator's direction of eye-gaze. Proc. R. Soc. B. 275: 1709-1715.      August 2008




Animal Cognition avesCharmantier, A., Keyser, A.J., Promislow, D.E.L. 2007. First evidence for heritable variation in cooperative breeding behavior.  Proc. R. Soc. B. 274: 1757-1761.         July 2007



Animal Cognition avesClark, C.J. & Feo, T.J. 2008. The Anna's hummingbird chirps with its tail: a new mechanism of sonation in birds. Proc. R. Soc. B. 275: 955-962.      April 2008 



Animal Cognition avesClayton, N. 2007. Animal cognition:crows spontaneously solve a metatool task. Current Biology 17: R894-R895.        October 2007




Animal Cognition avesClayton, N.S. & Emery, N.J. 2007. The social life of corvids. Current Biology 17: R652-R656.
August 2007




Animal Cognition avesClayton, N.S., Salwiczek, L.H. & Dickinson, A. 2007. Episodic memory. Current Biology 17: R189-R191.
March 2007



Animal Cognition avesCorreia, S.P.C., Dickinson, A., Clayton, N.S. 2007. Western Scrub-Jays anticipate future needs independently of their current motivational state. Current Biology. 17: 586-561.    May 2007


Animal Cognition avesDall, S.R.X. 2007. Behavioural ecology: niche construction via grooming and extortion? Current Biology 17: R422-R424.      June 2007



Animal Cognition avesDennis, T.E., Rayner, M.J., Walker, M.M. 2007. Evidence that pigeons orient to geomagnetic intensity during homing. Proc. R. Soc. B. 274: 1153-1158 .          May 2007



Animal Cognition avesDerryberry, E.P. 2007. Evolution of bird song affects signal efficacy: an experimental test using historical and current signals. Evolution 61: 1938-1945.           August 2007



Animal Cognition avesEvans, C.S. & Evans, L. 2007. Representational signalling in birds. Biology Letters 3: 8-11.     February 2007




Animal Cognition avesFeenders, G., Liedvogel, M., Rivas, M., Zapka, M., Horita, H., Haraa, E., Wada, K., Mouritsen, H. & Jarvis, E.D. 2008. Molecular mapping of movement-associated areas in the avian brain: a motor theory for vocal learning origin. PLoS ONE 3: e1768.         March 2008



Animal Cognition avesFidler, A.E., van Oers, K., Drent, P.J., Kuhn, S., Mueller, J.C., Kempenaers, B. 2007. Drd4 gene polymorphisms are associated with personality variation in a passerine bird. Proc. R. Soc. B. 274: 1685-1691.          July 2007



Animal Cognition avesFuller, R. A., Warren, P.H., Gaston, K.J. 2007. Daytime noise predicts nocturnal singing in urban robins. Biology Letters 3: 368-370.       August 2007



Animal Cognition avesGriesser, M. 2008. Referential calls signal predator behavior in a group-living bird species. Current Biology 18: 69-73.        January 2008




Animal Cognition avesGriesser, M., Nystrand, M., Eggers, S. & Ekman, J. 2008. Social constraints limit dispersal and settlement decisions in a group-living bird species. Behavioral Ecology 19: 317-324.        March 2008



Animal Cognition avesHackett, S.J., Kimball, R.T., Reddy, S., Bowie, R.C.K., Braun, E.L., Braun, M.J., Chojnowski, J.L., Cox, W.A., Han, K.L., Harshman, J., Huddleston, C.J., Marks, B.D., Miglia, K.J., Moore, W.S., Sheldon, F.H., Steadman, D.W., Witt, C.C. & Yuri, T. 2008. A phylogenomic study of birds reveals their evolutionary history. Science 320: 1763-1768.



Animal Cognition avesHenly, S.E., Ostdiek, A., Blackwell, E., Knutie, S., Dunlap, A.S. & Stephens, D.W. 2008. The discounting-by-interruptions hypothesis: model and experiment. Behavioral Ecology 19:  154-162.   January 2008



Animal Cognition avesHollen, L. I., Bell, M.B.V. & Radford, A.N. 2008. Cooperative sentinel calling? Foragers gain increased biomass intake. Current Biology 18: 576-579.        April 2008 



Animal Cognition avesHoshooley, J.S., Phillmore, L.S., Sherry, D.F., MacDougall-Shackleton, S.A. 2007. Annual cycle of the Black-Capped Chickadee: Seasonality of food-storing and the Hippocampus. Brain, Behavior and Evolution 69:161-168      March 2007



Animal Cognition avesHoover, J.P. & Robinson, S.K. 2007. Retaliatory mafia behavior by a parasitic cowbird favors host acceptance of parasitic eggs. PNAS 104: 4479-4473.          March 2007



Animal Cognition avesHunt, G.R. & Gray, R.D. 2007. Parallel tool industries in New Caledonian crows. Biology Letters. 3: 173-175.
April 2007

 

Animal Cognition avesIhalainen, E., Lindstrom, L., Mappes, J. & Puolakkainen, S. 2008. Can experienced birds select for Mullerian mimicry? Behavioral Ecology 19: 362-368.       March 2008


Animal Cognition avesJackson, A.L., Ruxton, G.D. & Houston, D.C. 2008. The effect of social facilitation on foraging success in vultures: a modelling study. Biology Letters 4: 311-313.         June 2008  



Animal Cognition avesKenward, B. Rutz, C.,Weir, A.S., & Kacelnik, A. 2006. Development of tool use in New Caledonian crows: inherited action patterns and social influences. Animal Behaviour 72: 1329-1343.             December 2006



Animal Cognition avesKrams, I., Krama, T., Igaune, K. & Mand, R. 2008. Experimental evidence of reciprocal altruism in the pied flycatcher. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 62: 599-605.     February 2008



Animal Cognition avesKurochkin, E.N., Dyke, G.J., Saveliev, S.V., Pervushov, E.M. & Popov, E.V. 2007. A fossil brain from the Cretaceous of European Russia and avian sensory evolution. Biology Letters. 3: 309-313.         June 2007



Animal Cognition avesLaidre, M.E. & Vehrencamp, S.L. 2008. Is bird song a reliable signal of aggressive intent? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 62: 1207-1211.      May 2008  



Animal Cognition avesLow, P.S., Shank, S.S., Sejnowski, T.J. & Margoliash, D. 2008. Mammalian-like features of sleep structure in zebra finches. PNAS 105: 9081-9086.       July 2008



Animal Cognition avesMaeda, K., Henbest, K.B., Cintolesi, F., Kuprov, I., Rodgers, C.T., Liddell, P.A., Gust, D., Timmel, C.R. & Hore, P.J. 2008. Chemical compass model of avian magnetoreception. Nature 453: 387-390.      May 2008



Animal Cognition avesMale, L.H., Smulders, T.V. 2007. Memory for food caches: not just for retrieval. Behavioral Ecology 18: 456-459.           April 2007          

 

Animal Cognition avesMagrath, R.D., Pitcher, B.J. & Gardner, J.L. 2007. A mutual understanding? Interspecific responses by birds to each other's aerial alarm calls. Behavioral Ecology 18: 944-951.        September 2007        



Animal Cognition avesMoller, A.P., Mousseau, T.A. 2007. Birds prefer to breed in sites with low radioactivity in Chernobyl. Proc. R. Soc. B. 274: 1443-1448.      June 2007



Animal Cognition avesMoller, A.P., Mousseau, T.A., de Lope, F., Saino, N. 2007. Elevated frequency of abnormalities in barn swallows from Chernobyl. Biology Letters 3: 414-417.         August 2007



Animal Cognition avesMonus, F. & Barta, Z. 2008. The effect of within-flock spatial position on the use of social foraging tactics in free-living tree sparrows. Ethology 114: 215-222.           March 2008



Animal Cognition avesMorand-Ferron, J. & Lefebvre, L. 2007. Flexible expression of a food-processing behaviour: determinants of dunking rates in wild Carib grackles of Barbados. Current Biology 17: 218-221.            November 2007



Animal Cognition avesMukhin, A., Chernetsov, N. & Kishkinev, D. 2008. Acoustic information as a distant cue for habitat recognition by nocturnally migrating passerines during landfall. Behavioral Ecology 19: 716-723.     July 2008    

Animal Cognition avesPatricelli, G.L., Dantzker, M.S., Bradbury, J.W. 2007. Differences in acoustic directionality among vocalizations of the male red-winged blackbird (Agelaius pheoniceus) are related to function in communication. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 61: 1099-1110.    May 2007



Animal Cognition avesPrather, J.F., Peters, S., Nowicki, S. & Mooney, R. 2008. Precise auditory-vocal mirroring in neurons for learned vocal communication. Nature 451: 305-310.         January 2008


Animal Cognition avesPravosudov, V.V. 2008. Mountain chickadees discriminate between potential cache pilferers and non-pilferers. Proc. R. Soc. B. 275: 55-61.       January 2008



Animal Cognition avesRaby, C.R., Alexis, D.M., Dickinson, A, and Clayton, N.S. 2007. Planning for the future by western scrub-jays. Nature 445: 919-921.    February 2007    



Animal Cognition avesRadford, A.N., Ridley, A.R. 2007. Individuals in foraging groups may use vocal cues when assessing their need for anti-predator vigilance. Biology Letters. 3: 249-252.        June 2007



Animal Cognition avesRadford, A.N. 2008. Type of threat influences postconflict allopreening in a social bird. Current Biology 18: R114-R115.     February 2008                       


Animal Cognition avesRidley, A.R., Child, M.F. & Bell, M.B.V. 2007. Interspecific audience effects on the alarm-calling behaviour of a kleptoparasitic bird. 3: 589-591.         December 2007



Animal Cognition avesRipmeester, E.A.P., de Vries, A.M., Slabbekoorn, H. 2007. Do blackbirds signal motivation to fight with their song? Ethology 113: 1021-1028.               November 2007



Animal Cognition avesRoberts, W.A. 2007. Mental time travel: animals anticipate the future. Current Biology 17: R418-R420
June 2007


Animal Cognition avesRubenstein, D.R. & Lovette, I.J. 2007. Temporal environmental variability drives the evolution of cooperative breeding in birds. Current Biology 17: 1414-1419.          August 2007



Animal Cognition avesRutz, C., Bluff, L.A., Weir, A.A.S. & Kacelnik, A. 2007. Video cameras on wild birds. Science 318: 765         November 2007



Animal Cognition avesSchloegl, C., Kotrschal, K. & Bugnyar, T. 2008. Modifying the object-choice task: is the way you look important for ravens. Behavioural Processes 77: 61-65.        January 2008


Animal Cognition avesSchuck-Paim, C., Alonso, W.J. & Ottoni, E.B. 2008. Cognition in an ever-changing world: climatic variability is associated with brain size in Neotropical parrots. Brain, Behavior and Evolution 71: 200-215.        April 2008 



Animal Cognition avesSchuck-Paim, C., Kacelnik, A. 2007. Choice processes in multialternative decision making. Behavioral Ecology 18: 541-550.    May 2007




Animal Cognition avesSeed, A.M., Clayton, N.S. & Emery, N.J. 2007. Postconflict third-party affliation in rooks, Corvus frugilegus. Current Biology 17: 152-158.       January 2007                    



Animal Cognition avesSeed, A.M., Clayton, N.S. & Emery, N.J. 2008. Cooperative problem solving in rooks (Corvus frugilegus). Proc. R. Soc. B. 275: 1421-1429.         June 2008  



Animal Cognition avesSeppanen, J.T. & Forsman, J.T. 2007. Interspecific social learning: novel preference can be acquired from a competing species. Current Biology 17: 1248- 1252.         July 2007



Animal Cognition avesSiddall, E.C. & Marples, N.M. 2008. Better be bimodal: the interaction of color and odor on learning and memory. Behavioral Ecology 19: 425-432.         March 2008



Animal Cognition avesSkelhorn, J., Rowe, C. 2006. Do the multiple defense chemicals of visually distinct species enhance predator learning? Behavioral Ecology 17: 947-951.          December 2006



Animal Cognition avesSol, D., Székely, T., Liker, D. & Lefebvre, L. 2007. Big-brained birds survive better in nature. Proc. R. Soc. B. 274: 763-769.      February 2007   


Animal Cognition avesSol, D. & Price, T.D. 2008. Brain size and the diversification of body size in birds. American Naturalist 172: 170-177.  
August 2008



Animal Cognition avesStapput, K., Thalau, P., Wiltschko, R. & Wiltschko, W. 2008. Orientation of birds in total darkness. Current Biology 18: 602-606.       April 2008 



Animal Cognition avesSulikowski, D., Burke, D. 2007. Food-specific spatial memory biases in an omnivorous bird. Biology Letters 3: 245-248.
June 2007



Animal Cognition avesTaylor, A.H., Hunt, G.R., Holzhaider, J.C. & Gray, R.D. 2007. Spontaneous metatool use by New Caledonian Crows. Current Biology 17: 1504-1507        September 2007



Animal Cognition avesTchernichovski, O. & Wallman, J. 2008. Behavioral neuroscience: neurons of imitation. Nature 451: 249-250.         February 2008



Animal Cognition avesTempleton, C.N. & Greene, E. 2007. Nuthatches eavesdrop on variations in heterospecific chickadee mobbing alarm calls. PNAS. 104: 5479-5482.           March 2007



Animal Cognition avesTerleph, T.A., Lu, K. & Vicario, D.S. 2008. Response properties of the auditory telencephalon in songbirds change with recent experience and season. PLoS One 3: e2854.   August 2008



Animal Cognition avesThorup, K. & Rabol, J. 2007. Compensatory behaviour after displacement in migratory birds. A meta analysis of cage experiments. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 61: 825-841.         April 2007



Animal Cognition avesToomey, M.B., Bowman, R., Woolfenden, G.E. 2007. The effects of social context on the food-caching behavior of Florida Scrub-Jays (Aphelocoma coerulescens). Ethology 113: 521-527.         June 2007



Animal Cognition avesVehrencamp, S.L., Hall, M.L., Bohman, E.R., Depeine, C.D. & Dalziell, A.H. 2007. Song matching, overlapping, and switching in the banded wren: the sender's perspective. Behavioral Ecology 18: 849-859.        September 2007



Animal Cognition avesVoigt, C., Leitner, S. & Gahr, M. 2007. Socially induced brain differentiation in a cooperatively breeding songbird. Proc. R. Soc. B. 274: 2645-2651.               November 2007



Animal Cognition avesVoss, H.U., Tabelow, K, Polzehl, J., Tchernichovski, O., Maul, K.M., Salgado-Commissariat, D., Ballon, D. & Helekar, S.A. 2007. Functional MRI of the zebra finch brain during song stimulation suggests a lateralized response topography. PNAS 104: 10667-10672.