Publications

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2022

• Prentice, Pamela M., Chloe Mnatzaganian, Thomas M. Houslay, Alex Thornton, and Alastair J. Wilson. "Individual differences in spatial learning are correlated across tasks but not with stress response behaviour in guppies." Animal Behaviour 188 (2022): 133-146.

• Ashton, Benjamin J., Alex Thornton, Maxime Cauchoix, and Amanda R. Ridley. "Long-term repeatability of cognitive performance." Royal Society Open Science 9, no. 5 (2022): 220069.

• Dibnah, Alex J., James E. Herbert-Read, Neeltje J. Boogert, Guillam E. McIvor, Jolle W. Jolles, and Alex Thornton. "Vocally mediated consensus decisions govern mass departures from jackdaw roosts." Current Biology 32, no. 10 (2022): R455-R456.

• Blackburn, Grace, Ethan Broom, Benjamin J. Ashton, Alex Thornton, and Amanda R. Ridley. "Heat stress inhibits cognitive performance in wild Western Australian magpies, Cracticus tibicen dorsalis." Animal Behaviour 188 (2022): 1-11.

• Reynolds, Andy M., Guillam E. McIvor, Alex Thornton, Patricia Yang, and Nicholas T. Ouellette. "Stochastic modelling of bird flocks: accounting for the cohesiveness of collective motion." Journal of the Royal Society Interface 19, no. 189 (2022): 20210745.

2021

• Hahn, Luca G., Rebecca Hooper, Guillam E. McIvor, and Alex Thornton. "Cooperative nest building in wild jackdaw pairs." Animal Behaviour 178 (2021): 149-163.

• Soravia, Camilla, Benjamin J. Ashton, Alex Thornton, and Amanda R. Ridley. "The impacts of heat stress on animal cognition: implications for adaptation to a changing climate." Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 12, no. 4 (2021): e713.

• Hooper, Rebecca, Ella Meekins, Guillam E. McIvor, and Alex Thornton. "Wild jackdaws respond to their partner's distress, but not with consolation." Royal Society Open Science 8, no. 6 (2021): 210253.

• Brakes, Philippa, Emma L. Carroll, Sasha RX Dall, Sally A. Keith, Peter K. McGregor, Sarah L. Mesnick, Michael J. Noad et al. "A deepening understanding of animal culture suggests lessons for conservation." Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288, no. 1949 (2021): 20202718.