Publications
Humans can accurately categorise negative but not positive emotional facial expressions in horses
Recognising emotional facial expressions plays a key role in communication, both within and between species. Many non-human animals, in...
Context-dependent variation in meerkat short note calls reflects emotional arousal
Many animals produce the same call type in distinct contexts, yet acoustic variation can encode additional information, such as the pro...
The high fundamental frequency in horse whinnies is generated by an aerodynamic whistle
Understanding why the frequencies of some species’ vocalizations are far above or below those predicted by body size is key for explain...
What do we know about vocal communication of emotion between different species of terrestrial tetrapods?
Investigating how animals perceive and interpret emotional signals across a variety of species is essential for deepening our understan...
Vocalizations in Livestock : Encyclopedia of Livestock Medicine for Large Animal and Poultry Production
Despite their energetic cost, auditory signals are a very efficient communication channel used to share information at a distance or in...
“Monkey influencers”: conservation culturomics of human-macaque (Macaca fascicularis) interactions
Conservation culturomics can offer insights into the online presence of threatened primate species, such as the long-tailed macaque (Ma...
The evolution of extreme sound frequencies in bird songs
Bird songs differ widely among species and can show peculiar phenotypes, such as extreme or unusual sound frequencies for a species’ bo...
Human‑macaque Co‑construction of Behaviours: Sharing Spaces, Sharing Food, Sharing Lives
Humans and other-than-human-animals (animals) share spaces, food, and lives. This gives rise to possibilities of interspecific learning...
Contact calls of zoo and wild southern white rhinoceroses do not differ acoustically
Large mammal species are declining globally, and zoo populations may help support or re-establish wild populations through reinforcemen...
Learning from Playbacks: Testing the Communicative Function of Snort and Pant Calls in the Southern White Rhinoceros
In southern white rhinoceroses (Ceratotherium simum simum), pant calls are well-studied contact vocalisations, whereas the function of ...