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Field guarding as a crop protection method: Preliminary implications for improving field guarding (2020)
Journal Article
Findlay, L., & Hill, R. (2020). Field guarding as a crop protection method: Preliminary implications for improving field guarding. Human–Wildlife Interactions, 14(3), 519-530

Negative interactions between crop farmers and wild primates are an issue of significant concern. Despite many crop farmers using field guards as a method of crop protection against foraging primates, there are very few published accounts of how effe... Read More about Field guarding as a crop protection method: Preliminary implications for improving field guarding.

Baboon and vervet monkey crop-foraging behaviors on a commercial South African farm: Preliminary implications for damage mitigation (2020)
Journal Article
Findlay, L., & Hill, R. (2020). Baboon and vervet monkey crop-foraging behaviors on a commercial South African farm: Preliminary implications for damage mitigation. Human–Wildlife Interactions, 14(3), 505-518. https://doi.org/10.26077/5dbc-b920

Conflict between crop farmers and wild nonhuman primates is a worldwide conservation issue of increasing concern. Most of the research on wild primate crop foraging has so far focused on the conflicts with subsistence agriculture. Crop damage caused... Read More about Baboon and vervet monkey crop-foraging behaviors on a commercial South African farm: Preliminary implications for damage mitigation.

Overimitation across development: the influence of individual and contextual factors (2020)
Book Chapter
Rawlings, B., Dutra, N., Turner, C., & Flynn, E. (2020). Overimitation across development: the influence of individual and contextual factors. In N. Jones, M. Platt, K. Mize, & J. Hardin (Eds.), Conducting Research in Developmental Psychology A Topical Guide for Research Methods Utilized Across the Lifespan. Routledge

Monsoon uncertainties, Hydro-chemical Infrastructures, and Ecological Time in Sri Lanka (2020)
Book Chapter
Widger, T., & Wickramasinghe, U. (2021). Monsoon uncertainties, Hydro-chemical Infrastructures, and Ecological Time in Sri Lanka. In E. Kirtsoglou, & B. Simpson (Eds.), The Time of Anthropology: Studies of Contemporary Chronopolitics (122-141). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003087199-7

In this chapter, the authors argue that anthropological discussions of time will remain limited if alongside human time we do not also consider that which falls beyond – the expansive ecologies of time. A study of time in agricultural contexts like t... Read More about Monsoon uncertainties, Hydro-chemical Infrastructures, and Ecological Time in Sri Lanka.

Reconnecting epistemologies via co-design and participatory action research practice (2020)
Book Chapter
Bailey-Ross, C., Rudman, H., Kendal, J., Mursic, Z., Lloyd, A., Ross, B., & Kendal, R. (in press). Reconnecting epistemologies via co-design and participatory action research practice. In C. Hayes, J. Fulton, & K. Petrie (Eds.), Beyond disciplinarity in social research : methodologies, epistemologies and philosophies. Routledge

Utilising bycatch camera trap data for broad-scale occupancy and conservation: a case study on brown hyaena (Parahyaena brunnea) (2020)
Journal Article
Williams, K., Pitman, R., Mann, G., Whittington-Jones, G., Comley, J., Williams, S., Hill, R., Balme, G., & Parker, D. (2021). Utilising bycatch camera trap data for broad-scale occupancy and conservation: a case study on brown hyaena (Parahyaena brunnea). Oryx: The International Journal of Conservation, 55(2), 216-226. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0030605319000747

With human influences driving populations of apex predators into decline, more information is required on how factors affect species at national and global scales. However, camera-trap studies are seldom executed at a broad spatial scale. We demonstr... Read More about Utilising bycatch camera trap data for broad-scale occupancy and conservation: a case study on brown hyaena (Parahyaena brunnea).

Sex differences in longitudinal personality stability in chimpanzees (2020)
Journal Article
Rawlings, B., Flynn, E., Freeman, H., Reamer, L., Schapiro, S., Lambeth, S., & Kendal, R. (2020). Sex differences in longitudinal personality stability in chimpanzees. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2, Article e46. https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2020.45

Personality factors analogous to the Big Five observed in humans are present in the great apes. However, few studies have examined the long-term stability of great ape personality, particularly using factor-based personality instruments. Here, we ass... Read More about Sex differences in longitudinal personality stability in chimpanzees.

Perspective-taking is spontaneous but not automatic (2020)
Journal Article
O’Grady, C., Scott-Phillips, T., Lavelle, S., & Smith, K. (2020). Perspective-taking is spontaneous but not automatic. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73(10), 1605-1628. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021820942479

Data from a range of different experimental paradigms—in particular (but not only) the dot perspective task—have been interpreted as evidence that humans automatically track the perspective of other individuals. Results from other studies, however, h... Read More about Perspective-taking is spontaneous but not automatic.

Habituation is not neutral or equal: Individual differences in tolerance suggest an overlooked personality trait (2020)
Journal Article
Allan, A., Bailey, A., & Hill, R. (2020). Habituation is not neutral or equal: Individual differences in tolerance suggest an overlooked personality trait. Science Advances, 6(28), Article eaaz0870. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaz0870

In behavioral studies, observer effects can be substantial, even for habituated animals, but few studies account for potential observer-related phenomenon empirically. We used wild, habituated chacma baboons to explore two key assumptions of behavior... Read More about Habituation is not neutral or equal: Individual differences in tolerance suggest an overlooked personality trait.

Influence of food availability, plant productivity and indigenous forest use on ranging behavior of the endangered samango monkey (Cercopithecus albogularis schwarzi), in the Soutpansberg Mountains, South Africa (2020)
Journal Article
Parker, E., Hill, R. A., Allan, A. T. L., Howlett, C., & Koyama, N. F. (2020). Influence of food availability, plant productivity and indigenous forest use on ranging behavior of the endangered samango monkey (Cercopithecus albogularis schwarzi), in the Soutpansberg Mountains, South Africa. Integrative Zoology, 15(5), 385-400. https://doi.org/10.1111/1749-4877.12438

Understanding the determinants of ranging patterns in species susceptible to habitat fragmentation is fundamental for assessing their long‐term adaptability to an increasingly human‐dominated landscape. The aim of this study was to determine and comp... Read More about Influence of food availability, plant productivity and indigenous forest use on ranging behavior of the endangered samango monkey (Cercopithecus albogularis schwarzi), in the Soutpansberg Mountains, South Africa.

Anthropomorphism in comparative affective science: Advocating a mindful approach (2020)
Journal Article
Williams, L. A., Brosnan, S. F., & Clay, Z. (2020). Anthropomorphism in comparative affective science: Advocating a mindful approach. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 115, 299-307. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.05.014

Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human-like capacities and traits to non-human entities. Anthropomorphism is ubiquitous in everyday life and in scientific domains, operating both implicitly and explicitly as a function of the human lens through... Read More about Anthropomorphism in comparative affective science: Advocating a mindful approach.

Assessing the role of a mammalian frugivorous species on seed germination potential depends on study design: A case study using wild samango monkeys (2020)
Journal Article
Stringer, S., Hill, R., Swanepoel, L., Dalrymple, S., Linden, B., & Koyama, N. (2020). Assessing the role of a mammalian frugivorous species on seed germination potential depends on study design: A case study using wild samango monkeys. Acta Oecologica, 106, Article 103584. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2020.103584

Frugivory and seed dispersal contribute to the maintenance and regeneration of plant communities through transportation of seeds and enhancing germination through seed processing mechanisms. The effects of mammalian frugivore seed processing mechanis... Read More about Assessing the role of a mammalian frugivorous species on seed germination potential depends on study design: A case study using wild samango monkeys.

Skills and motivations underlying children's cumulative cultural learning: case not closed (2020)
Journal Article
Reindl, E., Gwillians, A., Dean, L., Kendal, R., & Tennie, C. (2020). Skills and motivations underlying children's cumulative cultural learning: case not closed. Palgrave communications, 6, Article 106. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-0483-7

The breakthrough study of Dean et al. (Science 335:1114–1118, 2012) claimed that imitation, teaching, and prosociality were crucial for cumulative cultural learning. None of their child participants solved the final stage of their puzzlebox without s... Read More about Skills and motivations underlying children's cumulative cultural learning: case not closed.

Ecology and allometry predict the evolution of avian developmental durations (2020)
Journal Article
Cooney, C. R., Sheard, C., Clark, A. D., Healy, S. D., Liker, A., Street, S. E., Troisi, C. A., Thomas, G. H., Székely, T., Hemmings, N., & Wright, A. E. (2020). Ecology and allometry predict the evolution of avian developmental durations. Nature Communications, 11(1), Article 2383. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16257-x

The duration of the developmental period represents a fundamental axis of life-history variation, yet broad insights regarding the drivers of this diversity are currently lacking. Here, we test mechanistic and ecological explanations for the evolutio... Read More about Ecology and allometry predict the evolution of avian developmental durations.

Reactive and pre-emptive spatial cohesion in a social primate (2020)
Journal Article
LaBarge, L., Allan, A., Berman, C., Margulis, S., & Hill, R. (2020). Reactive and pre-emptive spatial cohesion in a social primate. Animal Behaviour, 163, 115-126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.03.005

Spatial cohesion in group-living animals is assumed as a risk-sensitive characteristic. Few studies have explicitly investigated this assumption or asked whether risk-related changes in spatial cohesion operate over short or long-term scales. We expl... Read More about Reactive and pre-emptive spatial cohesion in a social primate.

Citizen scientists: school students conducting, contributing to and communicating ecological research – experiences of a school–university partnership (2020)
Journal Article
Hsing, P.-Y., Coghill, L., Ryder, J., Austin, M., Dooley, S., Ellison, A., Fenwick, C., Garland, M., Humphrey, P., Proudlock, H., Robson, A., Steer, C., Turnbull, L., Kent, V., Bradley, S., Hill, R., Ascroft, R., & Stephens, P. (2020). Citizen scientists: school students conducting, contributing to and communicating ecological research – experiences of a school–university partnership. School science review, 101(376), 67-74

Started in north-east England in 2015, MammalWeb aims to improve our knowledge of British mammals through the use of motion-sensing camera traps. Fundamental to the project is the involvement of local communities and individuals who act as citizen sc... Read More about Citizen scientists: school students conducting, contributing to and communicating ecological research – experiences of a school–university partnership.

Humanity’s Best Friend: A Dog-Centric Approach to Addressing Global Challenges (2020)
Journal Article
Sykes, N., Beirne, P., Horowitz, A., Jones, I., Kalof, L., Karlsson, E., King, T., Litwak, H., McDonald, R. A., Murphy, L. J., Pemberton, N., Promislow, D., Rowan, A., Stahl, P. W., Tehrani, J., Tourigny, E., Wynne, C. D., Strauss, E., & Larson, G. (2020). Humanity’s Best Friend: A Dog-Centric Approach to Addressing Global Challenges. Animals, 10(3), Article 502. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani10030502

No other animal has a closer mutualistic relationship with humans than the dog (Canis familiaris). Domesticated from the Eurasian grey wolf (Canis lupus), dogs have evolved alongside humans over millennia in a relationship that has transformed dogs a... Read More about Humanity’s Best Friend: A Dog-Centric Approach to Addressing Global Challenges.