Publications
Expression of emotional valence in pig closed-mouth grunts: involvement of both source- and filter-related parameters
Emotion expression plays a crucial role for regulating social interactions. One efficient channel for emotion communication is the voca...
Stereotypic horses (Equus caballus) are not cognitively impaired
Stereotypies in animals are thought to arise from an interaction between genetic predisposition and sub-optimal housing conditions. In ...
Perceptual lateralisation of vocal stimuli in goats
Functional asymmetries, e.g. the preferential involvement of one brain hemisphere to process stimuli, may increase brain efficiency and...
Double quantile regression accurately assesses distance to boundary trade‐offs
1‐ Boundary trade‐offs are common among ecological, life‐history, behavioural and other traits. Depending on the traits studied, distan...
Urban birdsongs: higher minimum song frequency of an urban colonist persists in a common garden experiment
Environmental changes caused by urbanization and noise pollution can have profound effects on acoustic communication. Many organisms us...
Can access to an automated grooming brush and/or a mirror reduce stress of dairy cows kept in social isolation?
In dairy farming, social isolation of cattle is commonly practiced for husbandry procedures such as artificial insemination, claw trimm...
Evolution of non-kin cooperation: social assortment by cooperative phenotype in guppies
Cooperation among non-kin constitutes a conundrum for evolutionary biology. Theory suggests that non-kin cooperation can evolve if indi...
Seasonal variation and stability across years in a social network of wild giraffe
Animal social networks have been studied intensively in the last decade, but there are relatively few studies of their temporal stabili...
Territorial defense in a network: audiences only matter to male fiddler crabs primed for confrontation
Territorial contests often occur in the presence of conspecifics not directly involved in the interaction. Actors may alter their behav...
The ecology of suburban juvenile European hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus) in Denmark
Abstract European hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus) populations are widespread across diverse habitats but are declining in Western Europe...