Dr. Alice Auersperg
Winter term 2022
Ibáñez de Aldecoa, P, Auersperg, AMI, Griffin, AS & Tebbich, S 2022, 'Ratcheting up tool innovation in Goffin's cockatoos (Cacatua goffiniana): The effect of contextually diverse prior experience', Ethology. https://doi.org/10.1111/eth.13351
Osuna-Mascaró, AJ, Mundry, R, Tebbich, S, Beck, SR & Auersperg, AMI 2022, 'Innovative composite tool use by Goffin’s cockatoos (Cacatua goffiniana)', Scientific Reports, vol. 12, no. 1, 1510. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-05529-9
Morales Picard, A, Mundry, R, Auersperg, AM, Boeving, ER, Boucherie, PH, Bugnyar, T, Dufour, V, Emery, NJ, Federspiel, IG, Gajdon, GK, Guery, J-P, Hegedic, M, Horn, L, Kavanagh, E, Lambert, ML, Massen, JJM, Rodrigues, MA, Schiestl, M, Schwing, R, Szabo, B, Taylor, AH, van Horik, JO, von Bayern, AMP, Seed, A & Slocombe, KE 2020, 'Why preen others? Predictors of allopreening in parrots and corvids and comparisons to grooming in great apes', Ethology, vol. 126, no. 2, pp. 207-228. https://doi.org/10.1111/eth.12999
Laumer, IB, Auersperg, AMI, Bugnyar, T & Call, J 2019, 'Orangutans (Pongo abelii) make flexible decisions relative to reward quality and tool functionality in a multi-dimensional tool-use task', PLoS ONE, vol. 14, no. 2, e0211031. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211031
Beinhauer, I, Bugnyar, T & Auersperg, AMI 2019, 'Prospective but not retrospective tool selection in the Goffin's cockatoo (Cacatua goffiniana)', Behaviour: an international journal of behaviourial biology, vol. 156, no. 5-8, pp. 633-659. https://doi.org/10.1163/1568539X-00003515
Laumer, IB, Call, J, Bugnyar, T & Auersperg, AMI 2018, 'Spontaneous innovation of hook-bending and unbending in orangutans (Pongo abelii)', Scientific Reports, vol. 8, no. 1, 16518. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-34607-0
Laumer, IB, Bugnyar, T, Reber, SA & Auersperg, AMI 2017, 'Can hook-bending be let off the hook? Bending/unbending of pliant tools by cockatoos', Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, vol. 284, no. 1862, 20171026. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.1026
Szabo, B, Bugnyar, T & Auersperg, A 2017, 'Within-group relationships and lack of social enhancement during object manipulation in captive Goffin’s cockatoos (Cacatua goffiniana)', Learning and Behavior, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 7-19. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-016-0235-0
Auersperg, A, Borasinski, S, Laumer, I & Kacelnik, A 2016, 'Goffin’s cockatoos make the same tool type from different materials', Biology Letters, vol. 12, no. 11, 20160689. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0689
O'Hara, M, Auersperg, A, Bugnyar, T & Huber, L 2015, 'Inference by Exclusion in Goffin Cockatoos (Cacatua goffini)', PLoS ONE, vol. 10, no. 8, e0134894. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0134894
O'Hara, M, Auersperg, A, Rößler, T, Federspiel, I, Gajdon, G, Schwing, R, Bugnyar, T & Huber, L 2015, Exclusion, what else? Testing for inference skills using an abstract touch-screen approach. in Behaviour 2015 Abstracts.
Auersperg, A, van Horik, JO, Bugnyar, T, Kacelnik, A, Emery, N & von Bayern, A 2015, 'Combinatory actions during object play in psittaciformes (Diopsittaca nobilis, Pionites melanocephala, Cacatua goffini) and corvids (Corvus corax, C. monedula, C. moneduloides)', Journal of Comparative Psychology, vol. 129, no. 1, pp. 62–71. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0038314
Auersperg, A 2015, Exploration technique and technical innovations in corvids and parrots. in Animal Innovation and Creativity. Elsevier Academic Press, pp. 45-69.
Auersperg, A, Szabo, B, von Bayern, A & Bugnyar, T 2014, 'Object Permanence in the Goffin Cockatoo (Cacatua goffini)', Journal of Comparative Psychology, vol. 128, no. 1, pp. 88-98. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0033272
Auersperg, A, von Bayern, A, Weber, S, Szabadvari, A, Bugnyar, T & Kacelnik, A 2014, 'Social transmission of tool use and tool manufacture in Goffin cockatoos (Cacatua goffini)', Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, vol. 281, no. 1793, 20140972. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.0972
Auersperg, A, Oswald, N, Domanegg, M, Gajdon, G & Bugnyar, T 2014, 'Unrewarded object combinations in parrots', Animal Behavior and Cognition, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 470-488. https://doi.org/10.12966/abc.11.05.2014
Auersperg, A, Laumer, IB & Bugnyar, T 2013, 'Goffin cockatoos wait for qualitative and quatitative gains but prefer ‘better’ to ‘more’', Biology Letters, vol. 9, no. 3, 20121092. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.1092
Auersperg, A, von Bayern, A & Kacelnik, A 2013, 'Explorative learning and functional inferences on a five-step mechanical problem in juvenile Goffin’s cockatoos (Cacatua goffini)', PLoS ONE, vol. 8, no. 7. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0068979
Auersperg, A, Gajdon, G & Huber, L 2010, 'Kea, Nestor notabilis, produce dynamic relationships between objects in a second-order tool use task', Animal Behaviour, vol. 80, no. 5, pp. 783-789. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.08.007
Technical Problem Solving and Tool Use in Ravens (Corvus corax) and Carrion Crows (Corvus corone)
Theresa Matzinger (Speaker), Alice Auersperg (Contributor), Auguste von Bayern (Contributor) & Thomas Bugnyar (Contributor)
26 Aug 2015
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Acquisitional neophilia in birds?
Mark O'Hara (Speaker), Alice Auersperg (Speaker), Auguste von Bayern (Speaker), Anna Wilkinson (Speaker), Thomas Bugnyar (Contributor), Gyula Gajdon (Speaker) & Ludwig Huber (Speaker)
3 Jul 2013 → 5 Jul 2013
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Kea (Nestor notabilis) do not use tools during natural foraging but spontaneously develop skills for doing so when tasks are offered experimentally
Alice Auersperg (Speaker)
18 Jul 2008
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other