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October 2007

*  Washoe Pan satyrus dies at 42, on October 30.   Friends of Washoe
Animal Cognition October 2007 Issue!
* Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes October 2007 issue

* Abbott, A. 2007. Model behaviour. Nature 450: 6-7.     

* Addessi, E., Crescimbene, L. & Visalberghi, E.
2007. Do capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) use tokens as symbols? Proc. R. Soc. B. 274: 2579-2585.         
       Communication   

* Arnold, 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.          
           Learning & memory               Personality & behavioral syndromes
 
* Bugnyar, T., Schwab, C., Schloegl, C., Kotrschal, K. & Heinrich, B. 2007. Ravens judge competitors through experience with play caching. Current Biology 17: 1804-1808.          Planning         Communication         Decision-making

* Burt, 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.             Learning & memory

* Byrne, R.W. & Bates, L.A. 2007. Brain evolution: when is a group not a group?
Current Biology 17: R883-R884.   Group-dynamics         Communication   

* Cheetham, S.A., Thom, M.D., Jury, F., Ollier, W.E.R., Beynon, R.J. & Hurst, J.L. 2007. The genetic basis of individual-recognition signals in the mouse. Current Biology 17: 1771-1777.         Recognition                 Signals & signal detection         

* Clayton, N.
2007. Animal cognition:crows spontaneously solve a metatool task. Current Biology 17: R894-R895.    
    Tool use

* Decker, S., McConnaughey, S. & Page, T.L.
2007. Circadian regulation of insect olfactory learning. PNAS 104: 15905-15910.      
        Learning & memory

* Dreier, S., van Zweden, J.S. & D'Ettorre, P. 2007. Long-term memory of individual identity in ant queens. Biology Letters 3: 459-462.             
                 Recognition        Learning & memory            Group-dynamics

* Greiner, B., Narendra, A., Reid, S.F., Dacke, M., Ribi, W.A. & Zeil, J.
2007. Eye structure correlates with distinct foraging-bout timing in primitive ants.  Current Biology 17: R879-R880.     
    Signals & signal detection          

* Hobel, G. & Gerhardt, H.C.
2007. Sources of selection on signal timing in a tree frog. Ethology 113: 973-982.         Signals & signal detection

* Jensen, K., Call, J. & Tomasello, M. 2007. Chimpanzees are rational maximizers in an ultimatum game. Science 318: 107-109.   
  Decision-making

* King, L.E., Douglas-Hamilton, I. & Vollrath, F. 2007. African elephants run from the sound of disturbed bees. Current Biology 17: R832-R833.        
       Signals & signal detection

* Mendes, N., Hanus, D. & Call, J.
2007. Raising the level: orangutans use water as a tool. Biology Letters 3: 453-455 
Nature News article about Mendes et al. 2007.             Tool use             Decision-making

* Rilling, J.K., Barks, S.K., Parr, L.A., Preuss, T.M., Faber, T.L., Pagnoni, G., Bremner, J.D. & Votaw, J.R.
2007. A comparison of resting-state brain activity in humans and chimpanzees. PNAS 104: 17146-17151           Neuroethology

* Rousset, F. & Roze, D.
2007. Constraints on the origin and maintenance of genetic kin recognition. Evolution 61: 2320-2330.           Recognition       

* Schulz, S. & Dunbar, R.I.M.
2007. The evolution of the social brain: anthropoid primates contrast with other vertebrates. Proc. R. Soc. B. 274: 2429-2436.         Neuroethology
Also see Science article

* Stabentheiner, A., Kovac, H. & Schmaranzer, S. 2007. Thermal behaviour of honeybees during aggressive interactions. Ethology 113: 995-1006.         Group-dynamics

* Toth, A.L., Varala, K., Newman, T.C., Miguez, F.E., Hutchison, S.K., Willoughby, D.A., Simons, J.F., Egholm, M., Hunt, J.H., Hudson, M.E., Robinson, G.E. 2007. Wasp gene expression supports an evolutionary link between maternal behavior and eusociality. Science 318: 441-444.        
   Group-dynamics



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