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List of works by Simon W Townsend

A simple test of vocal individual recognition in wild meerkats

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Age/sex differences in third-party rank relationship knowledge in wild vervet monkeys, Chlorocebus aethiops pygerythrus

scientific article published in April 2015

An exploration of Menzerath's law in wild mountain gorilla vocal sequences

scientific article published on 14 October 2020

Audience effects in chimpanzee copulation calls.

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Chestnut-crowned babbler calls are composed of meaningless shared building blocks

scientific article published on 09 September 2019

Chimpanzee alarm call production meets key criteria for intentionality

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Chimpanzee food calls are directed at specific individuals

Chimpanzees combine pant hoots with food calls into larger structures

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Combinatoriality in the vocal systems of nonhuman animals

scientific article published on 06 February 2019

Communication: Animal Steps on the Road to Syntax?

scientific article published in August 2017

Compositionality in animals and humans

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Dwarf mongoose alarm calls: investigating a complex non-human animal call

scientific article published on 23 September 2020

Element repetition rates encode functionally distinct information in pied babbler 'clucks' and 'purrs'.

scientific article published on 20 July 2017

Exorcising Grice's ghost: an empirical approach to studying intentional communication in animals

scientific article published on 2 August 2016

Experimental Evidence for Phonemic Contrasts in a Nonhuman Vocal System

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Female chimpanzees use copulation calls flexibly to prevent social competition

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Female-led infanticide in wild chimpanzees.

scientific article published in May 2007

First observation of a chimpanzee with albinism in the wild: Social interactions and subsequent infanticide

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Internal acoustic structuring in pied babbler recruitment cries specifies the form of recruitment

scientific article published in 2018

Investigating the potential for call combinations in a lifelong vocal learner

scientific article published on 19 March 2019

Language evolution: syntax before phonology?

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Meaningful call combinations and compositional processing in the southern pied babbler

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Multimodal communication and language origins: integrating gestures and vocalizations

scientific article published on 27 June 2019

Nonadjacent dependency processing in monkeys, apes, and humans

scientific article published on 21 October 2020

Nonlinearities in Meerkat Alarm Calls Prevent Receivers from Habituating

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Production of food-associated calls in wild male chimpanzees is dependent on the composition of the audience

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Reply to Fischer et al.

scientific article published in November 2015

Social monitoring via close calls in meerkats

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The Information Content of Wolf (and Dog) Social Communication

The function of nonlinear phenomena in meerkat alarm calls

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Vocal learning in the functionally referential food grunts of chimpanzees.

scientific article published on 5 February 2015

Vocal signals facilitate cooperative hunting in wild chimpanzees

scientific article published in 2022

Why did the meerkat cross the road? Flexible adaptation of phylogenetically-old behavioural strategies to modern-day threats

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Wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) distinguish between different scream types: evidence from a playback study

scientific article published on 28 December 2008

Wild dwarf mongooses produce general alert and predator-specific alarm calls

scientific article published in 2017

Wolf howling is mediated by relationship quality rather than underlying emotional stress

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