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Dora Biro's Degrees
- PhD Zoology University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Dora Biro is a behavioral biologist and the Beverly Petterson Bishop and Charles W. Bishop Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Rochester. She was previously a Professor of Animal Behaviour at the University of Oxford. and a visiting professor in the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University in Japan. Biro studies social behavior, problem solving, and learning in birds and primates.
Dora Biro's Published Works
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Published Works
- Hierarchical group dynamics in pigeon flocks (2010) (823)
- Cultural innovation and transmission of tool use in wild chimpanzees: evidence from field experiments (2003) (444)
- From Compromise to Leadership in Pigeon Homing (2006) (228)
- Emergence of a culture in wild chimpan-zees: education by master-apprenticeship (2001) (207)
- Cumulative culture can emerge from collective intelligence in animal groups (2017) (153)
- Context-dependent hierarchies in pigeons (2013) (149)
- Information transfer in moving animal groups (2008) (144)
- Use of numerical symbols by the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes): Cardinals, ordinals, and the introduction of zero (2001) (138)
- The fourth dimension of tool use: temporally enduring artefacts aid primates learning to use tools (2013) (138)
- GPS tracking of the foraging movements of Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus breeding on Skomer Island, Wales (2008) (127)
- Chimpanzee mothers at Bossou, Guinea carry the mummified remains of their dead infants (2010) (127)
- Chimpanzees Share Forbidden Fruit (2007) (123)
- Familiar route loyalty implies visual pilotage in the homing pigeon. (2004) (122)
- Collective animal navigation and migratory culture: from theoretical models to empirical evidence (2017) (120)
- Ontogeny and Cultural Propagation of Tool Use by Wild Chimpanzees at Bossou, Guinea: Case Studies in Nut Cracking and Leaf Folding (2006) (117)
- Chimpanzee face recognition from videos in the wild using deep learning (2019) (116)
- Experimental identification of social learning in wild animals (2010) (103)
- Homing pigeons develop local route stereotypy (2005) (100)
- What are leaders made of? The role of individual experience in determining leader–follower relations in homing pigeons (2012) (99)
- NUMERICAL ORDERING IN A CHIMPANZEE (PAN TROGLODYTES) : PLANNING, EXECUTING, AND MONITORING (1999) (99)
- Tool-composite reuse in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): archaeologically invisible steps in the technological evolution of early hominins? (2009) (98)
- Speed Determines Leadership and Leadership Determines Learning during Pigeon Flocking (2015) (95)
- Positional entropy during pigeon homing II: navigational interpretation of Bayesian latent state models. (2004) (91)
- Pigeons combine compass and landmark guidance in familiar route navigation (2007) (88)
- Use-Wear Patterns on Wild Macaque Stone Tools Reveal Their Behavioural History (2013) (87)
- Interaction rules underlying group decisions in homing pigeons (2013) (76)
- How the viewing of familiar landscapes prior to release allows pigeons to home faster: evidence from GPS tracking. (2002) (75)
- Group decisions and individual differences: route fidelity predicts flight leadership in homing pigeons (Columba livia) (2010) (71)
- Route following and the pigeon's familiar area map (2014) (69)
- Bringing a Time-Depth Perspective to Collective Animal Behaviour. (2016) (68)
- Tool use as adaptation (2013) (65)
- Collective movement in ecology: from emerging technologies to conservation and management (2018) (64)
- Chimpanzee carrying behaviour and the origins of human bipedality (2012) (58)
- Wild birds respond to flockmate loss by increasing their social network associations to others (2017) (55)
- Re-wilding Collective Behaviour: An Ecological Perspective. (2018) (55)
- Positional entropy during pigeon homing I: application of Bayesian latent state modelling. (2004) (49)
- Leaf-tool use for drinking water by wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): acquisition patterns and handedness (2009) (47)
- Comparative thanatology, an integrative approach: exploring sensory/cognitive aspects of death recognition in vertebrates and invertebrates (2018) (43)
- Objectively identifying landmark use and predicting flight trajectories of the homing pigeon using Gaussian processes (2010) (42)
- Personality and the collective: bold homing pigeons occupy higher leadership ranks in flocks (2018) (41)
- Robustness of flight leadership relations in pigeons (2013) (41)
- Not just passengers: pigeons, Columba livia, can learn homing routes while flying with a more experienced conspecific (2013) (39)
- Landscape complexity influences route-memory formation in navigating pigeons (2014) (29)
- Evidence of tool use in a seabird (2019) (28)
- Evolutionary thanatology (2018) (26)
- An edge-detection approach to investigating pigeon navigation. (2006) (25)
- Modelling group navigation: transitive social structures improve navigational performance (2015) (24)
- Tools, traditions and technologies: Interdisciplinary approaches to chimpanzee nut-cracking. (2010) (24)
- Speed consensus and the ‘Goldilocks principle’ in flocking birds (Columba livia) (2019) (23)
- Homing pigeons (Columba livia) modulate wingbeat characteristics as a function of route familiarity (2017) (22)
- Head-mounted sensors reveal visual attention of free-flying homing pigeons (2018) (22)
- Birds invest wingbeats to keep a steady head and reap the ultimate benefits of flying together (2019) (21)
- Misinformed leaders lose influence over pigeon flocks (2016) (21)
- Boldness traits, not dominance, predict exploratory flight range and homing behaviour in homing pigeons (2017) (21)
- Route Recapitulation and Route Loyalty in Homing Pigeons: Pilotage From 25 km? (2005) (20)
- Automated audiovisual behavior recognition in wild primates (2021) (19)
- Mechanisms of visually mediated site recognition by the homing pigeon (2003) (19)
- Using natural travel paths to infer and compare primate cognition in the wild (2021) (18)
- Chimpanzee Numerical Competence: Cardinal and Ordinal Skills (2008) (18)
- Lack of experience-based stratification in homing pigeon leadership hierarchies (2016) (18)
- The emergence of collective knowledge and cumulative culture in animals, humans and machines (2021) (17)
- Pairs of pigeons act as behavioural units during route learning and co-navigational leadership conflicts (2013) (17)
- Primate occurrence across a human-impacted landscape in Guinea-Bissau and neighbouring regions in West Africa: using a systematic literature review to highlight the next conservation steps (2018) (15)
- Efficiency fosters cumulative culture across species (2021) (15)
- Homing Pigeons Respond to Time-Compensated Solar Cues Even in Sight of the Loft (2013) (14)
- Chimpanzees’ use of conspecific cues in matching-to-sample tasks: public information use in a fully automated testing environment (2011) (14)
- Validating two-dimensional leadership models on three-dimensionally structured fish schools (2016) (14)
- Modelling Group Navigation: Dominance and Democracy in Homing Pigeons (2009) (14)
- The Arena System: a novel shared touch-panel apparatus for the study of chimpanzee social interaction and cognition (2014) (14)
- A missing piece of the Papio puzzle: Gorongosa baboon phenostructure and intrageneric relationships. (2019) (13)
- Route recognition in the homing pigeon, Columba livia (2006) (13)
- Chimpanzee Mothers Carry the Mummified Remains of Their Dead Infants: Three Case Reports from Bossou (2011) (12)
- Resolution of navigational conflict in king penguin chicks (2014) (12)
- Chimpanzees spontaneously take turns in a shared serial ordering task (2017) (11)
- Asymmetric visual input and route recapitulation in homing pigeons (2015) (10)
- Gorongosa by the sea: First Miocene fossil sites from the Urema Rift, central Mozambique, and their coastal paleoenvironmental and paleoecological contexts (2019) (9)
- The effect of experienced individuals on navigation by king penguin chick pairs (2015) (9)
- Learning multiple routes in homing pigeons (2014) (6)
- Collective learning in route navigation (2013) (5)
- Clues to Culture? The Coula- and Panda-Nut Experiments (2011) (5)
- First Evidence of Chimpanzee Extractive Tool Use in Cantanhez, Guinea-Bissau: Cross-Community Variation in Honey Dipping (2021) (5)
- Spontaneous categorization of tools based on observation in children and chimpanzees (2019) (4)
- Naïve individuals promote collective exploration in homing pigeons (2021) (4)
- Gaussian processes for prediction of homing pigeon flight trajectories (2009) (4)
- Inter-community behavioural variation confirmed through indirect methods in four neighbouring chimpanzee communities in Cantanhez NP, Guinea-Bissau (2022) (3)
- Risk perception and terrestriality in primates: A quasi‐experiment through habituation of chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique (2022) (3)
- Collective attention in navigating homing pigeons: group size effect and individual differences (2021) (3)
- Consequences and mechanisms of leadership in pigeon flocks (2013) (3)
- Genomic variation in baboons from central Mozambique unveils complex evolutionary relationships with other Papio species (2022) (3)
- Beyond collective intelligence: Collective adaptation (2023) (3)
- Reply to Auersperg et al.: Puffin tool use is no fluke (2020) (2)
- Personality and the collective: Exploratory homing pigeons occupy higher leadership ranks in flocks (2018) (2)
- Birds invest wingbeats to keep a steady head and reap the ultimate benefits of flocking (2018) (2)
- Exclusion by donkey's ears: Donkeys (Equus asinus) use acoustic information to find hidden food in a two-way object-choice task. (2021) (2)
- Carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen stable isotopes in modern tooth enamel: A case study from Gorongosa National Park, central Mozambique (2022) (2)
- Shared touch-panel tasks for pairs of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) (2008) (2)
- Bird Navigation: A Clear View of Magnetoreception (2010) (2)
- Correction to ‘The emergence of collective knowledge and cumulative culture in animals, humans and machines’ (2022) (2)
- The first Miocene fossils from coastal woodlands in the southern East African Rift (2021) (2)
- The Cultured Chimpanzee: Reflections on Cultural Primatology.ByW C McGrew.Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. $90.00 (hardcover); $29.99 (paper). xiii + 248 p; ill.; author and subject indexes. ISBN: 0–521–82841–4 (hc); 0–521–53543–3 (pb). 2004. (2005) (2)
- Empirical test of the many-wrongs hypothesis reveals weighted averaging of individual routes in pigeon flocks (2022) (1)
- Gorongosa National Park and the biogeography of human origins in the Mio-Pliocene (2017) (1)
- Pigeon leadership hierarchies are not dependent on environmental contexts or individual phenotypes (2022) (1)
- Escaping a blind alley: The ZLS as a 'cultural crucible'?: Comment on "Blind alleys and fruitful pathways in the comparative study of cultural cognition" by Andrew Whiten. (2022) (1)
- Homing pigeons (2018) (1)
- Wild skuas can use acoustic cues to locate hidden food (2022) (1)
- Vertical Transmission of Tool-Composite Choice in Wild Chimpanzees: Insights into Social Influences on Stone Tool Selectivity? (2011) (1)
- Neural networks reveal emergent properties of collective learning in democratic but not despotic groups (2022) (1)
- Mechanisms of collective learning: how can animal groups improve collective performance when repeating a task? (2023) (1)
- First description of nest-decoration behaviour in a wild sub-Antarctic shorebird (2021) (1)
- Pigeons retain partial memories of homing paths years after learning them individually, collectively or culturally (2021) (1)
- Sex Differences during Transport of Resources by Wild Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and the Origins of Storage Behaviour (2011) (0)
- A missing piece of the Papio puzzle : Gorongosa baboon phenostructure and their 1 relationships with Papio species 2 (2018) (0)
- A WINDOW INTO EARLY HOMININ EVOLUTION? CLUES TO THE ORIGINS OF TECHNOLOGICAL EVOLUTION AND BIPEDALITY FROM CHIMPANZEE FIELD EXPERIMENTS (2010) (0)
- Cláudia Sousa’s parallel efforts in the laboratory and in the field: from the use of tokens by captive chimpanzees to the ontogeny of wild chimpanzee tool use (2016) (0)
- Wild skuas can follow human-given behavioural cues when objects resemble natural food (2022) (0)
- Genomic variation in baboons from central Mozambique unveils complex evolutionary relationships with other Papio species (2022) (0)
- predicts flight leadership in homing pigeons ( Group decisions and individual differences: route fidelity (2012) (0)
- Large-scale spatial cognition in birds and mammals - ESF CompCog Workshop March 2009 (2009) (0)
- Computing impossible things : the harmonic measure of fractals (2011) (0)
- routes while flying with a more experienced conspecific , can learn homing Columba livia Not just passengers: pigeons, (2014) (0)
- Collective decision-making in homing pigeon navigation (2013) (0)
- Editorial: Cognition, foraging, and energetics in extant and extinct primates (2023) (0)
- University of Birmingham Boldness traits, not dominance, predicts exploratory flight range and homing behaviour in homing pigeons (2017) (0)
- Naïve individuals promote collective exploration in 1 homing pigeons 2 3 (2021) (0)
- Gaze strategy during flight in homing pigeons (2018) (0)
- Spontaneous coordination by chimpanzees in a shared sequencing task (2013) (0)
- Title: Personality and the collective: Bold homing pigeons occupy higher leadership flocks (2017) (0)
- Chimpanzees spontaneously take turns in a shared serial ordering task (2017) (0)
- NEOGENE COASTAL-PLAIN ESTUARINE RECORD IN THE GORONGOSA AREA, CENTRAL MOZAMBIQUE: PALEOENVIRONMENTAL AND PALEOECOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ANCIENT EAST AFRICAN MARGIN AND ITS PRIMATE LAND USE POTENTIAL (2017) (0)
- Animal behaviour Learning multiple routes in homing pigeons (2014) (0)
- Plant consumer innovation in skuas (2023) (0)
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