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An intraspecific appraisal of the social intelligence hypothesis

scientific article published on 26 September 2018

Animal cognition in an urbanised world

scientific article published on 01 March 2021

Animal minds: from computation to evolution

scientific article published on October 2012

Applications of machine learning in animal behaviour studies

scholarly article by John Joseph Valletta et al published February 2017 in Animal Behaviour

Behavioural plasticity and the transition to order in jackdaw flocks

scientific article published on 15 November 2019

Caller characteristics influence recruitment to collective anti-predator events in jackdaws.

scientific article

Cognitive consequences of cooperative breeding? A critical appraisal

scientific article published in January 2015

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

scientific article published on 7 February 2018

Cognitive requirements of cumulative culture: teaching is useful but not essential.

scientific article

Comparative cognition for conservationists

scientific article

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

scientific article

Cooperative nest building in wild jackdaw pairs

scientific article published on 06 July 2021

Costs and benefits of social relationships in the collective motion of bird flocks

scientific article published on 06 May 2019

Counting conformity: evaluating the units of information in frequency-dependent social learning

Desperate Prawns: Drivers of Behavioural Innovation Vary across Social Contexts in Rock Pool Crustaceans.

scientific article published on 21 October 2015

Early body condition, time budgets and the acquisition of foraging skills in meerkats

article published in 2008

Evolution of iris colour in relation to cavity nesting and parental care in passerine birds

scientific article published on January 2017

Experimental evidence for social transmission of food acquisition techniques in wild meerkats

article

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

scientific article

Food limitation increases aggression in juvenile meerkats

scientific article published in 2009

Function of meerkats' mobbing-like response to secondary predator cues: recruitment not teaching

scientific article published in 2022

Fundamental problems with the cooperative breeding hypothesis. A reply to Burkart & van Schaik.

scientific article published on 24 May 2016

Gaze sensitivity: function and mechanisms from sensory and cognitive perspectives

Harnessing learning biases is essential for applying social learning in conservation

scientific article

Heterogeneous structure in mixed-species corvid flocks in flight

article

How and why are some species so smart? A comment on Rowe and Healy

scientific article published in 2014

How do banded mongooses locate and select anvils for cracking encased food items?

scientific article published on 9 April 2012

Human mate-choice copying is domain-general social learning.

scientific article published on 29 January 2018

Identification of learning mechanisms in a wild meerkat population

scientific article published on 8 August 2012

Identifying teaching in wild animals

scientific article published on August 2010

In search of the Darwinian Holy Trinity in cognitive evolution: a comment on Croston et al

scientific article published in 2015

Individual variation in cognitive performance: developmental and evolutionary perspectives ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 5 October 2012)

Innovative problem solving in wild meerkats

Jackdaw nestlings can discriminate between conspecific calls but do not beg specifically to their parents

scientific article published in 2014

Lessons from animal teaching.

scientific article published on 25 July 2008

Measuring and understanding individual differences in cognition

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Multi-generational persistence of traditions in neighbouring meerkat groups.

scientific article

Neophobia is not only avoidance: improving neophobia tests by combining cognition and ecology

Nesting jackdaws’ responses to human voices vary with local disturbance levels and the gender of the speaker

scientific article published in 2022

Problems with using comparative analyses of avian brain size to test hypotheses of cognitive evolution

scientific article published in 2022

Punishment and cooperation in nature

scientific article

Salient eyes deter conspecific nest intruders in wild jackdaws (Corvus monedula).

scientific article

Seasonal changes in neophobia and its consistency in rooks: the effect of novelty type and dominance position

scientific article

Simultaneous measurements of three-dimensional trajectories and wingbeat frequencies of birds in the field

scientific article published on 24 October 2018

Smarter through group living: A response to Smulders

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Social learning about novel foods in young meerkats

Social learning and the development of individual and group behaviour in mammal societies

scientific article (publication date: 12 April 2011)

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

scientific article published on July 2016

Supporting the weight of the elephant in the room: Technical intelligence propped up by social cognition and language

scientific article published on 10 August 2020

Teachers in the wild: some clarification.

scientific article published on 4 June 2007

Teaching can teach us a lot

Teaching in wild meerkats.

scientific article

Testing relationship recognition in wild jackdaws (Corvus monedula)

scientific article published on 30 April 2019

Testing social learning of anti-predator responses in juvenile jackdaws: the importance of accounting for levels of agitation.

scientific article published on 24 January 2018

The Evolution of Individual and Cultural Variation in Social Learning

scientific article

The development of foraging microhabitat preferences in meerkats

scientific article published on 19 September 2008

The evolution of teaching

article published in 2008

The proximate-ultimate confusion in teaching and cooperation.

scientific article published in January 2015

The psychology of cooperation in animals: an ecological approach

scientific article published in January 2015

The rise and fall of an arbitrary tradition: an experiment with wild meerkats.

scientific article published on 17 February 2009

Toward wild psychometrics: linking individual cognitive differences to fitness

scientific article published in 2014

Translating cognitive insights into effective conservation programs: reply to Schakner et al.

scientific article published on 7 October 2014

Variation in contributions to teaching by meerkats.

scientific article published in August 2008

What is cumulative cultural evolution?

scientific article published in June 2018

Wild jackdaws are wary of objects that violate expectations of animacy

scientific article published on 24 October 2018

Wild jackdaws' reproductive success and their offspring's stress hormones are connected to provisioning rate and brood size, not to parental neophobia

scientific article

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

article

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