Group structure and individual relationships of sanctuary-living Grauer’s gorillas (Gorilla beringei graueri)
Publication/Journal: PLOS ONE
Keywords: animal sociality, centrality, collective animal behavior, eigenvectors, female contraception, gorillas, primates, social networks
2024
Assessments of fighting ability need not be cognitively complex
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: aggression, lloyd morgan's canon, mutual assessment, pure self-assessment, resource-holding potential, sequential assessment model
2013
Long-Term Temporal and Spatial Dynamics of Food Availability for Endangered Mountain Gorillas in Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda
Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology
Keywords: feeding ecology, gorilla beringei, herbaceous plants, rwanda, vegetation dynamics
2013
The parental investment models of Maynard Smith: a retrospective and prospective view
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: desertion, game theory, parental care
2013
Is Optimism Optimal? Functional Causes of Apparent Behavioural Biases
Publication/Journal: Behavioural Processes
Keywords: bandit models, long-term currency, natural selection, optimal decision making, optimism, pessimism, short-term currency
2012
When is it adaptive to be patient? A general framework for evaluating delayed rewards
Publication/Journal: Behavioural Processes
Keywords: delay discounting, ecological rationality, impulsiveness, intertemporal choice, optimal foraging, self-control.
2012
Integrating function and mechanism
Publication/Journal: Trends in Ecology & Evolution
Keywords: behavioral ecology
2009
Proximate factors influencing dispersal decisions in male mountain gorillas, Gorilla beringei beringei
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: aggression, concession, dispersal, gorilla beringei beringei), philopatry, relatedness, reproductive opportunity
2009
Why do vultures have bald heads? The role of postural adjustment and bare skin areas in thermoregulation
Publication/Journal: Journal of Thermal Biology
Keywords: bare skin areas, griffon vulture, heat loss, thermoregulation
2008
Elevated hormonal stress response and reduced reproductive output in Yellow-eyed penguins exposed to unregulated tourism
Publication/Journal: General and Comparative Endocrinology
Keywords: breeding success, corticosterone, fledging weights, human disturbance, megadyptes antipodes, stress, tourism
2007