Dora Biro

• Boldness traits, not dominance, predict exploratory flight range and homing behaviour in homing pigeons

  Portugal SJ. et al, (2017), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 372

• Wild birds respond to flockmate loss by increasing their social network associations to others.

  Firth JA. et al, (2017), Proc Biol Sci, 284

• Cumulative culture can emerge from collective intelligence in animal groups.

  Sasaki T. and Biro D., (2017), Nat Commun, 8

• Validating two-dimensional leadership models on three-dimensionally structured fish schools.

  Watts I. et al, (2017), R Soc Open Sci, 4

• Misinformed leaders lose influence over pigeon flocks.

  Watts I. et al, (2016), Biol Lett, 12

• Bringing a Time-Depth Perspective to Collective Animal Behaviour.

  Biro D. et al, (2016), Trends Ecol Evol, 31, 550 - 562

• Lack of experience-based stratification in homing pigeon leadership hierarchies.

  Watts I. et al, (2016), R Soc Open Sci, 3

• Speed Determines Leadership and Leadership Determines Learning during Pigeon Flocking.

  Pettit B. et al, (2015), Curr Biol, 25, 3132 - 3137

• Asymmetric visual input and route recapitulation in homing pigeons.

  Martinho A. et al, (2015), Proc Biol Sci, 282

• Modelling group navigation: transitive social structures improve navigational performance.

  Flack A. et al, (2015), J R Soc Interface, 12

• The effect of experienced individuals on navigation by king penguin chick pairs

  Nesterova AP. et al, (2015), Animal Behaviour, 104, 69 - 78

• The Arena System: a novel shared touch-panel apparatus for the study of chimpanzee social interaction and cognition.

  Martin CF. et al, (2014), Behav Res Methods, 46, 611 - 618

• Route following and the pigeon's familiar area map.

  Guilford T. and Biro D., (2014), J Exp Biol, 217, 169 - 179

• Resolution of navigational conflict in king penguin chicks

  Nesterova AP. et al, (2014), Animal Behaviour, 93, 221 - 228

• Learning multiple routes in homing pigeons.

  Flack A. et al, (2014), Biol Lett, 10

• Landscape complexity influences route-memory formation in navigating pigeons.

  Mann RP. et al, (2014), Biol Lett, 10

• Interaction rules underlying group decisions in homing pigeons

  Pettit B. et al, (2013), Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 10

• Interaction rules underlying group decisions in homing pigeons.

  Pettit B. et al, (2013), J R Soc Interface, 10

• Tool use as adaptation.

  Biro D. et al, (2013), Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 368

• The fourth dimension of tool use: temporally enduring artefacts aid primates learning to use tools.

  Fragaszy DM. et al, (2013), Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 368

• Collective learning in route navigation.

  Flack A. and Biro D., (2013), Commun Integr Biol, 6

• Robustness of flight leadership relations in pigeons

  Flack A. et al, (2013), Animal Behaviour, 86, 723 - 732

• Context-dependent hierarchies in pigeons.

  Nagy M. et al, (2013), Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 110, 13049 - 13054

• Pairs of pigeons act as behavioural units during route learning and co-navigational leadership conflicts.

  Flack A. et al, (2013), J Exp Biol, 216, 1434 - 1438

• Not just passengers: pigeons, Columba livia, can learn homing routes while flying with a more experienced conspecific.

  Pettit B. et al, (2013), Proc Biol Sci, 280

• Not just passengers: pigeons, Columba livia, can learn homing routes while flying with a more experienced conspecific.

  Pettit B. et al, (2013), Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society, 280

• Use-wear patterns on wild macaque stone tools reveal their behavioural history.

  Haslam M. et al, (2013), PLoS One, 8

• Robustness of flight leadership relations in pigeons

  Flack A. et al, (2013), Animal Behaviour

• Homing pigeons respond to time-compensated solar cues even in sight of the loft.

  Armstrong C. et al, (2013), PLoS One, 8

• Chimpanzee carrying behaviour and the origins of human bipedality.

  Carvalho S. et al, (2012), Curr Biol, 22, R180 - R181

• What are leaders made of? The role of individual experience in determining leader-follower relations in homing pigeons

  Flack A. et al, (2012), Animal Behaviour, 83, 703 - 709

• What are leaders made of? The role of individual experience in determining leader-follower relations in homing pigeons

  Flack A. et al, (2012), Animal Behaviour

• Chimpanzees' use of conspecific cues in matching-to-sample tasks: public information use in a fully automated testing environment.

  Martin CF. et al, (2011), Anim Cogn, 14, 893 - 902

• Group decisions and individual differences: route fidelity predicts flight leadership in homing pigeons (Columba livia).

  Freeman R. et al, (2011), Biol Lett, 7, 63 - 66

• Objectively identifying landmark use and predicting flight trajectories of the homing pigeon using Gaussian processes.

  Mann R. et al, (2011), J R Soc Interface, 8, 210 - 219

• Vertical Transmission of Tool-Composite Choice in Wild Chimpanzees: Insights into Social Influences on Stone Tool Selectivity?

  Biro D. and Carvalho S., (2011), FOLIA PRIMATOLOGICA, 82, 342 - 343

• Sex Differences during Transport of Resources by Wild Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and the Origins of Storage Behaviour

  Carvalho S. et al, (2011), FOLIA PRIMATOLOGICA, 82, 341 - 341

• Tools, traditions and technologies: Interdisciplinary approaches to chimpanzee nut-cracking.

  Ribeiro Marques De Carvalho SC. and Biro D., (2010), The Mind of the Chimpanzee Ecological and Experimental Perspectives

• Experimental identification of social learning in wild animals.

  Reader SM. and Biro D., (2010), Learn Behav, 38, 265 - 283

• Bird navigation: a clear view of magnetoreception.

  Biro D., (2010), Curr Biol, 20, R595 - R596

• Chimpanzee mothers at Bossou, Guinea carry the mummified remains of their dead infants.

  Biro D. et al, (2010), Curr Biol, 20, R351 - R352

• Hierarchical group dynamics in pigeon flocks.

  Nagy M. et al, (2010), Nature, 464, 890 - 893

• Gaussian processes for prediction of homing pigeon flight trajectories

  Mann R. et al, (2009), AIP Conference Proceedings, 1193, 360 - 367

• Tool-composite reuse in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): archaeologically invisible steps in the technological evolution of early hominins?

  Carvalho S. et al, (2009), Anim Cogn, 12 Suppl 1, S103 - S114

• Leaf-tool use for drinking water by wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): acquisition patterns and handedness.

  Sousa C. et al, (2009), Anim Cogn, 12 Suppl 1, S115 - S125

• Modelling group navigation: Dominance and democracy in homing pigeons

  Freeman R. and Biro D., (2009), Journal of Navigation, 62, 33 - 40

• Tool-composite reuse in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): archaeologically invisible steps in the technological evolution of early hominins?

  Carvalho S. et al, (2009), Animal Cognition, 1 - 12

• Leaf-tool use for drinking water by wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): acquisition patterns and handedness

  Sousa C. et al, (2009), Animal Cognition, 1 - 11

• GPS tracking of the foraging movements of Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus breeding on Skomer Island, Wales

  Guilford TC. et al, (2008), IBIS, 150, 462 - 473

• Shared touch-panel tasks for pairs of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

  Martin CF. et al, (2008), AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY, 70, 55 - 55

• Information transfer in moving animal groups.

  Sumpter D. et al, (2008), Theory Biosci, 127, 177 - 186

• Chimpanzees share forbidden fruit.

  Hockings KJ. et al, (2007), PLoS One, 2

• Pigeons combine compass and landmark guidance in familiar route navigation.

  Biro D. et al, (2007), Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 104, 7471 - 7476

• From compromise to leadership in pigeon homing.

  Biro D. et al, (2006), Curr Biol, 16, 2123 - 2128

• Route recognition in the homing pigeon, Columba livia

  Meade J. et al, (2006), Animal Behaviour, 72, 975 - 980

• An edge-detection approach to investigating pigeon navigation.

  Lau KK. et al, (2006), J Theor Biol, 239, 71 - 78

• Route recapitulation and route loyalty in homing pigeons: Pilotage from 25 km?

  Biro D. et al, (2006), Journal of Navigation, 59, 43 - 53

• Ontogeny and cultural propagation of tool use by wild chimpanzees at Bossou, Guinea: Case studies in nut cracking and leaf folding

  Biro D. et al, (2006), Cognitive Development in Chimpanzees, 476 - 508

• Homing pigeons develop local route stereotypy.

  Meade J. et al, (2005), Proc Biol Sci, 272, 17 - 23

• Familiar route loyalty implies visual pilotage in the homing pigeon.

  Biro D. et al, (2004), Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 101, 17440 - 17443

• Positional entropy during pigeon homing II: navigational interpretation of Bayesian latent state models.

  Guilford T. et al, (2004), J Theor Biol, 227, 25 - 38

• Positional entropy during pigeon homing I: application of Bayesian latent state modelling.

  Roberts S. et al, (2004), J Theor Biol, 227, 39 - 50

• Cultural innovation and transmission of tool use in wild chimpanzees: evidence from field experiments.

  Biro D. et al, (2003), Anim Cogn, 6, 213 - 223

• Mechanisms of visually mediated site recognition by the homing pigeon

  Biro D. et al, (2003), Animal Behaviour, 65, 115 - 122

• How the viewing of familiar landscapes prior to release allows pigeons to home faster: Evidence from GPS tracking

  Biro D. et al, (2002), Journal of Experimental Biology, 205, 3833 - 3844

• How the viewing of familiar landscapes prior to release allows pigeons to home faster: evidence from GPS tracking.

  Biro D. et al, (2002), J Exp Biol, 205, 3833 - 3844

• Use of numerical symbols by the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes): Cardinals, ordinals, and the introduction of zero.

  Biro D. and Matsuzawa T., (2001), Anim Cogn, 4, 193 - 199

• Homing pigeons (Columba livia) modulate wingbeat characteristics as a function of route familiarity

  Biro D. et al, The Journal of Experimental Biology

Recent Publications

• Boldness traits, not dominance, predict exploratory flight range and homing behaviour in homing pigeons

  Portugal SJ. et al, (2017), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 372

• Wild birds respond to flockmate loss by increasing their social network associations to others.

  Firth JA. et al, (2017), Proc Biol Sci, 284

• Cumulative culture can emerge from collective intelligence in animal groups.

  Sasaki T. and Biro D., (2017), Nat Commun, 8

• Validating two-dimensional leadership models on three-dimensionally structured fish schools.

  Watts I. et al, (2017), R Soc Open Sci, 4

• Misinformed leaders lose influence over pigeon flocks.

  Watts I. et al, (2016), Biol Lett, 12