Katie Slocombe

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• 2024

  Chimpanzee gestural exchanges share temporal structure with human language

  Badihi, G., Graham, K. E., Grund, C., Safryghin, A., Soldati, A., Donnellan, E., Hashimoto, C., Mine, J. G., Piel, A. K., Stewart, F., Slocombe, K. E., Wilke, C., Townsend, S. W., Zuberbühler, K., Zulberti, C. & Hobaiter, C., 22 Jul 2024, In: Current Biology. 34, 14, p. R673-R674

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• Idiosyncratic gesture use in a mother-infant dyad in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) in the wild

  van Boekholt, B., Clark, I., Lahiff, N. J., Lee, K. C., Slocombe, K. E., Wilke, C. & Pika, S., 3 Oct 2024, In: ANIMAL COGNITION. 27, 1, 12 p., 64.

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• Many morphs: Parsing gesture signals from the noise

  Mielke, A., Badihi, G., Graham, K. E., Grund, C., Hashimoto, C., Piel, A. K., Safryghin, A., Slocombe, K. E., Stewart, F., Wilke, C., Zuberbühler, K. & Hobaiter, C., 4 Mar 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Behavior research methods. 18 p.

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• Successful adoption of non-orphaned infant by a parous, nursing female in yaki (Sulawesi crested macaque)

  Graham, K. E., Holden, E., Engelhardt, A., Perwitasari-Farajallah, D. & Slocombe, K. E., 15 Oct 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Behaviour. 161, p. 797–814 18 p.

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• Vocal-visual combinations in wild chimpanzees

  Mine, J. G., Wilke, C., Zulberti, C., Behjati, M., Bosshard, A. B., Stoll, S., Machanda, Z. P., Manser, A., Slocombe, K. E. & Townsend, S. W., 11 Oct 2024, In: Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 78, 10, 13 p., 108.

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• 2023

  Call combinations and compositional processing in wild chimpanzees

  Leroux, M., Schel, A. M., Wilke, C., Chandia, B., Zuberbühler, K., Slocombe, K. E. & Townsend, S. W., 4 May 2023, In: Nature Communications. 14, 1, 8 p., 2225.

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• Humans recognize affective cues in primate vocalizations: acoustic and phylogenetic perspectives

  Debracque, C., Slocombe, K. E., Clay, Z., Grandjean, D. & Gruber, T., 5 Jul 2023, In: Scientific reports. 13, 1, 11 p., 10900.

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• Pseudoreplication in Primate Communication Research: 10 Years On

  Whitehouse, J., Clark, P. R., Micheletta, J., Liebal, K., Slocombe, K. E. & Waller, B. M., 9 Oct 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: International journal of primatology.

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• Threat vocalisations are acoustically similar between humans (Homo sapiens) and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

  Kamiloğlu, R. G., Çalışkan, C., Slocombe, K. E. & Sauter, D. A., 29 Aug 2023, In: Bioacoustics.

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• 2022

  Chimpanzee pant-hoots encode individual information more reliably than group differences

  Desai, N. P., Fedurek, P., Slocombe, K. E. & Wilson, M. L., 12 Sept 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY. 23 p., e23430.

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• Chimpanzee vocal communication: what we know from the wild

  Slocombe, K. E., Lahiff, N. J., Wilke, C. & Townsend, S. W., 1 Aug 2022, In: Current opinion in behavioral sciences. 46, 7 p., 101171.

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• Cognition in the wild: understanding animal thought in its natural context

  Rosati, A. G., Machanda, Z. P. & Slocombe, K. E., Oct 2022, In: Current opinion in behavioral sciences. 47, 4 p., 101210.

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• Declarative referential gesturing in a wild chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)

  Wilke, C., Lahiff, N. J., Sabbi, K. H., Watts, D. P., Townsend, S. W. & Slocombe, K. E., 22 Nov 2022, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 119, 47, 3 p., e2206486119.

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• Degraded and computer-generated speech processing in a bonobo

  Lahiff, N. J., Slocombe, K. E., Taglialatela, J., Dellwo, V. & Townsend, S. W., Dec 2022, In: ANIMAL COGNITION. 25, 6, p. 1393-1398

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• Maternal attitudes and behaviours differentially shape infant early life experience: A cross cultural study

  Holden, E., Buryn-Weitzel, J. C., Atim, S., Biroch, H., Donnellan, E., Graham, K. E., Hoffman, M., Jurua, M., Knapper, C. V., Lahiff, N. J., Marshall, S., Paricia, J., Tusiime, F., Wilke, C., Majid, A. & Slocombe, K. E., 21 Dec 2022, In: PLOS ONE. 17, 12, 30 p., e0278378.

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• Referential gestures are not ubiquitous in wild chimpanzees: alternative functions for exaggerated loud scratch gestures

  Wilke, C., Lahiff, N., Badihi, G., Donnellan, E., Hobaiter, C., Machanda, Z., Mundry, R., Pika, S., soldati, A., Wrangham, R. W., Zuberbühler, K. & Slocombe, K., Jul 2022, In: ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR. 189, p. 23-45

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• The language void 10 years on: multimodal primate communication research is still uncommon

  Liebal, K., Slocombe, K. & Waller, B. M., 24 Jan 2022, In: Ethology ecology. 34, 3, p. 274-287

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• Vocal signals facilitate cooperative hunting in wild chimpanzees

  Mine, J. G., Slocombe, K. E., Willems, E. P., Gilby, I. C., Yu, M., Thompson, M. E., Muller, M. N., Wrangham, R. W., Townsend, S. W. & Machanda, Z. P., 29 Jul 2022, In: Science Advances. 8, 30 July, eabo5553.

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• 2021

  Detecting joint attention events in mother-infant dyads: Sharing looks cannot be reliably identified by naïve third-party observers

  Graham, K. E., Buryn-Weitzel, J. C., Lahiff, N. J., Wilke, C. & Slocombe, K. E., 23 Jul 2021, In: PLoS ONE. 16, 7, 20 p., e0255241.

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• Dominance style is a key predictor of vocal use and evolution across nonhuman primates

  Kavanagh, E., Street, S. E., Angwela, F. O., Bergman, T. J., Blaszczyk, M. B., Bolt, L. M., Briseño-Jaramillo, M., Brown, M., Chen-Kraus, C., Clay, Z., Coye, C., Thompson, M. E., Estrada, A., Fichtel, C., Fruth, B., Gamba, M., Giacoma, C., Graham, K. E., Green, S. & Grueter, C. C. & 45 others, Gupta, S., Gustison, M. L., Hagberg, L., Hedwig, D., Jack, K. M., Kappeler, P. M., King-Bailey, G., Kuběnová, B., Lemasson, A., Inglis, D. M., Machanda, Z., Macintosh, A., Majolo, B., Marshall, S., Mercier, S., Micheletta, J., Muller, M., Notman, H., Ouattara, K., Ostner, J., Pavelka, M. S. M., Peckre, L. R., Petersdorf, M., Quintero, F., Ramos-Fernández, G., Robbins, M. M., Salmi, R., Schamberg, I., Schoof, V. A. M., Schülke, O., Semple, S., Silk, J. B., Sosa-Lopéz, J. R., Torti, V., Valente, D., Ventura, R., Van De Waal, E., Weyher, A. H., Wilke, C., Wrangham, R., Young, C., Zanoli, A., Zuberbühler, K., Lameira, A. R. & Slocombe, K., 28 Jul 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Royal Society Open Science. 8, 7, 15 p., 210873.

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• 2020

  Chimpanzee lip-smacks confirm primate continuity for speech-rhythm evolution

  Pereira, A. S., Kavanagh, E., Hobaiter, C., Slocombe, K. E. & Lameira, A. R., 27 May 2020, In: Biology letters. 16, 5, 20200232.

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• Human listeners' perception of behavioural context and core affect dimensions in chimpanzee vocalizations

  Kamiloğlu, R. G., Slocombe, K. E., Haun, D. B. M. & Sauter, D. A., 24 Jun 2020, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 287, 1929, 10 p., 20201148.

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• 2019

  Cooperation in children

  Slocombe, K. E. & Seed, A. M., 3 Jun 2019, In: Current Biology. 29, 11, p. R470-R473

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• Exploration of potential triggers for self-directed behaviours and regurgitation and reingestion in zoo-housed chimpanzees

  Wallace, E. K., Herrelko, E., Koski, S. E., Vick, S. J., Buchanan-Smith, H. & Slocombe, K. E., 25 Sept 2019, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Applied Animal Behaviour Science. 9 p.

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• Infants’ intentionally communicative vocalisations elicit responses from caregivers and are the best predictors of the transition to language: a longitudinal investigation of infants’ vocalisations, gestures, and word production.

  Donnellan, E., Bannard , C., McGillion, M. L., Slocombe, K. E. & Matthews, D. E., 3 Dec 2019, In: Developmental Science. 23, 1, 21 p., e12843.

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• Scratching Beneath the Surface: Intentionality in Great Ape Signal production

  Graham, K. E., Wilke, C., Lahiff, N. J. & Slocombe, K. E., 18 Nov 2019, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. p. 1-11 11 p.

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• Why preen others? Predictors of allopreening in parrots and corvids and comparisons to grooming in great apes

  Morales Picard, A., Mundry, R., Auersperg, A. M., Boeving, E. R., Boucherie, P. H., Bugnyar, T., Dufour, V., Emery, N. J., Federspiel, I. G., Gajdon, G. K., Guéry, J. P., Hegedič, M., Horn, L., Kavanagh, E., Lambert, M. L., Massen, J. J. M., Rodrigues, M. A., Schiestl, M., Schwing, R. & Szabo, B. & 5 others, Taylor, A. H., van Horik, J. O., von Bayern, A. M. P., Seed, A. & Slocombe, K. E., 16 Dec 2019, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Ethology. 22 p.

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• 2018

  An exploration into the efficacy of public warning signs: a zoo case study

  Parker, E., Bramley, L., Scott, L., Marshall, A. R. & Slocombe, K. E., 9 Nov 2018, In: PLoS ONE.

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• HUMAN BEHAVIOURAL DISCRIMINATION OF HUMAN, CHIMPANZEE AND MACAQUE AFFECTIVE VOCALISATIONS IS REFLECTED BY THE NEURAL RESPONSE IN THE SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS

  Fritz, T. H., Mueller, K., Guha, A., Gouws, A., Levita, L., Andrews, T. J. & Slocombe, K. E., 1 Mar 2018, In: Neuropsychologia. 111, p. 145-150 6 p.

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• 'Who's a good boy?!' Dogs prefer naturalistic dog-directed speech

  Benjamin, A. & Slocombe, K., 2 Mar 2018, (E-pub ahead of print) In: ANIMAL COGNITION. 12 p.

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• 2017

  Abilities to explicitly and implicitly infer intentions from actions in adults with autism spectrum disorder

  Cole, E. J., Slocombe, K. E. & Barraclough, N. E., 6 Dec 2017, In: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. p. 1-15 15 p.

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• An ‘unkindness’ of ravens? Measuring prosocial preferences in Corvus corax

  Lambert, M. L., Massen, J., Seed, A., Bugnyar, T. & Slocombe, K. E., Jan 2017, In: ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR. 123, p. 383-393 11 p.

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• Chimpanzees with positive welfare are happier, extraverted, and emotionally stable

  Robinson, L. M., Altschul, D. M., Wallace, E. K., Úbeda, Y., Llorente, M., Machanda, Z., Slocombe, K. E., Leach, M. C., Waran, N. K. & Weiss, A., 20 Feb 2017, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Applied Animal Behaviour Science. p. 1-8 8 p.

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• Function and flexibility of object exploration in kea and New Caledonian crows

  Lambert, M. L., Schiestl, M., Schwing, R., Taylor, A., Gajdon, G., Slocombe, K. E. & Seed, A. M., 27 Sept 2017, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Royal Society Open Science. p. 1-16 16 p.

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• Is music enriching for group-housed captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)?

  Wallace, E. K., Altschul, D., Körfer, K., Benti, B., Kaeser, A., Lambeth, S., Waller, B. M. & Slocombe, K. E., 29 Mar 2017, In: PLoS ONE. 12, 3, e0172672.

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• Production of and responses to unimodal and multimodal signals in wild chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii

  Wilke, C., Kavanagh, E., Donnellan, E., Waller, B. M., Machanda, Z. P. & Slocombe, K. E., 1 Jan 2017, In: ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR. 123, p. 305-316 16-00514.

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• 2016

  Diffusion of novel foraging behaviour in Amazon parrots through social learning

  Morales Picard, A., Hogan, L., Lambert, M. L., Wilkinson, A., Seed, A. M. & Slocombe, K. E., 26 Oct 2016, In: ANIMAL COGNITION. p. 1-14 14 p.

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• Exorcising Grice's ghost: an empirical approach to studying intentional communication in animals

  Townsend, S. W., Koski, S. E., Byrne, R. W., Slocombe, K. E., Bickel, B., Boeckle, M., Braga Goncalves, I., Burkart, J. M., Flower, T., Gaunet, F., Glock, H. J., Gruber, T., Jansen, D. A. W. A. M., Liebal, K., Linke, A., Miklósi, Á., Moore, R., van Schaik, C. P., Stoll, S. & Vail, A. & 4 others, Waller, B. M., Wild, M., Zuberbühler, K. & Manser, M. B., 2 Aug 2016, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Biological reviews of the cambridge philosophical society. p. 1-7 7 p.

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• The relationship between testosterone and long-distance calling in wild male chimpanzees

  Fedurek, P., Slocombe, K. E., Enigk, D. K., Thompson, M. E., Wrangham, R. W. & Muller, M. N., 2 Mar 2016, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 70, 5, p. 659–672 14 p.

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• 2015

  A novel form of spontaneous tool use displayed by several captive greater vasa parrots (Coracopsis vasa)

  Lambert, M. L., Seed, A. M. & Slocombe, K. E., 16 Dec 2015, In: Biology letters. 11, 12, 4 p.

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• Chimpanzee lip-smacking facilitates cooperative behaviour

  Fedurek, P., Slocombe, K. E., Hartel, J. A. & Zuberbühler, K., 22 Aug 2015, In: Scientific Reports. 5, 13460.

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• Chimpanzees communicate to two different audiences during aggressive interactions

  Fedurek, P., Slocombe, K. E. & Zuberbühler, K., 1 Dec 2015, In: ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR. 110, p. 21-28 8 p.

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• Reply to Fischer et al

  Watson, S. K., Townsend, S. W., Schel, A. M., Wilke, C., Wallace, E. K., Cheng, L., West, V. & Slocombe, K. E., 2 Nov 2015, In: Current Biology. 25, 21, p. R1030-R1031

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• Social, contextual, and individual factors affecting the occurrence and acoustic structure of drumming bouts in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

  Babiszewska, M., Schel, A. M., Wilke, C. & Slocombe, K. E., 2015, In: American journal of physical anthropology. 156, 1, p. 125-134 10 p.

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• Vocal learning in the functionally referential food grunts of chimpanzees

  Watson, S. K., Townsend, S. W., Schel, A. M., Wilke, C., Wallace, E. K., Cheng, L., West, V. & Slocombe, K. E., 16 Feb 2015, In: Current Biology. 25, 4, p. 495-499 5 p.

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• 2014

  Evaluation of public engagement activities to promote science in a zoo environment

  Whitehouse, J., Waller, B. M., Chanvin, M., Wallace, E. K., Schel, A. M., Peirce, K., Mitchell, H., Macri, A. & Slocombe, K., 21 Nov 2014, In: PLoS ONE. 9, 11, p. 1-14 14 p., 0113395.

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• Social and ecological correlates of long-distance pant hoot calls in male chimpanzees

  Fedurek, P., Donnellan, E. & Slocombe, K. E., Aug 2014, In: Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 68, 8, p. 1345-1355 11 p.

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• The evolution of self-control

  MacLean, E. L., Hare, B., Nunn, C. L., Addessi, E., Amici, F., Anderson, R. C., Aureli, F., Baker, J. M., Bania, A. E., Barnard, A. M., Boogert, N. J., Brannon, E. M., Bray, E. E., Bray, J., Brent, L. J. N., Burkart, J. M., Call, J., Cantlon, J. F., Cheke, L. G. & Clayton, N. S. & 38 others, Delgado, M. M., DiVincenti, L. J., Fujita, K., Herrmann, E., Hiramatsu, C., Jacobs, L. F., Jordan, K. E., Laude, J. R., Leimgruber, K. L., Messer, E. J. E., de A Moura, A. C., Ostojić, L., Picard, A., Platt, M. L., Plotnik, J. M., Range, F., Reader, S. M., Reddy, R. B., Sandel, A. A., Santos, L. R., Schumann, K., Seed, A. M., Sewall, K. B., Shaw, R. C., Slocombe, K. E., Su, Y., Takimoto, A., Tan, J., Tao, R., van Schaik, C. P., Virányi, Z., Visalberghi, E., Wade, J. C., Watanabe, A., Widness, J., Young, J. K., Zentall, T. R. & Zhao, Y., 20 May 2014, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 111, 20, p. E2140-E2148 9 p.

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• Two case studies using playbacks to Census neotropical primates: callicebus Discolor and alouatta palliate Aequatorialis

  Salcedo, A., Mejia, M., Slocombe, K. & Papworth, S., Dec 2014, In: Neotropical Primates. 21, 2, p. 201-205

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• 2013

  Chimpanzee Alarm Call Production Meets Key Criteria for Intentionality

  Schel, A. M., Townsend, S. W., Machanda, Z., Zuberbühler, K. & Slocombe, K. E., 16 Oct 2013, In: PLoS ONE. 8, 10, p. e76674

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