Search by month: may 2015

Mimicry papers

Kelley, L.A., Healy, S.D. 2012. Vocal mimicry in spotted bowerbirds is associated with an alarming context. Journal of Avian Biology 43 (6): 525-530. Kelley, L., & Healy, S,D, 2011. The mimetic repertoire of the…

Function of mobbing alarm calls

Nora Carlson is a PhD student working in both the Templeton and Healy labs at St Andrews. She is interested in the content and function of mobbing alarm calls given by various tit species in the presence of different…

Context papers

Morgan, K. V., T. A. Hurly, M. Bateson, L. Asher, and S. D. Healy. 2012. Context-dependent decisions among options varying in a single dimension. Behavioural Processes 89:115-120.  S. D. Healy, and T. A. Hurly. 2002.…

Taste papers

Bacon, I. E., Hurly, T. A. & Healy, S. 2011. Hummingbirds choose not to rely on good taste. Behavioral Ecology 22 (3): 471-477

Timing papers

Tello-Ramos M.C., Hurly T.A., Higgott C., Healy S.D. 2015. Time-place learning in wild , free-living hummingbirds. Animal Behaviour 104:123–129. Samuels, M., Hurly, T.A. & Healy, S.D. 2014. Colour cues facilitate…

Traplining

Hummingbirds forage by revisiting flowers and it is thought that they do so by following routes or sequences that are repeated through time (traplines). To determine if this is in fact the case, Maria recorded the…