Animal cognition, brain size and intelligence: theory and reviews
Kessler, SE, Bonnell, T R, Byrne, R W, Chapman, C A (2017) Selection to outsmart the germs: The evolution of disease recognition and social cognition. Journal of Human Evolution 108, 92e109
Fedorova, N, Evans, C E & Byrne, R W (2017) Living in stable social groups is associated with reduced brain size in woodpeckers (Picidae). Biology Letters, 13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2017.0008
Barnard, P, Davidson, I and Byrne, R W (2016) Towards a richer theoretical scaffolding for interpreting archaeological evidence concerning cognitive evolution. In T. Wynn and F. L. Coolidge (Eds.) Cognitive Models in Paleolithic Archaeology, pp.45-67. New York: Oxford University Press
Bates, L A & Byrne R W (2015) Primate social cognition: What we have learned from primates and other animals. APA Handbook of personality and social psychology, Volume 1: Attitudes and social cognition [1-4338-1701-2]
Byrne, R W (2015) The what as well as the why of animal fun. Current Biology, 25, R2-R4. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2014.09.008
Cochet, H and Byrne, R W (2014) Complexity in animal behaviour: Towards common ground.Acta Ethologica. DOI 10.1007/s10211-014-0205-5
Byrne, R W (2013) Primate intelligence (revised). In Henke, W, Rothe, H & Tattersall, I (Eds) Handbook of paleoanthropology. Vol.2. Primate evolution and human origin. Springer-Verlag: Heidelberg.
Byrne, R W & Bates, L A (2010) Primate social cognition. Uniquely primate, uniquely social, or just unique? Neuron, 65, 815-830, DOI 10.1016/j.neuron.2010.03.010.
Barnard, P J, Duke, D J, Byrne, R W and Davidson, I (2007) Differentiation in cognitive and emotional meanings: an evolutionary analysis. Cognition and Emotion, 21, 1155-1183.
Byrne, R W (2003) Ape cognition. McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science & Technology 2003, pp.19-21.
Byrne, R W (2002) The primate origins of human intelligence. In R J Sternberg & J C Kaufman (Eds.) The evolution of intelligence. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, New Jersey.
Byrne, R W (1999) Cognition in great ape ecology. Skill-learning ability opens up foraging opportunities. In H O Box & K R Gibson (eds), Mammalian social learning. Comparative and ecological perspectives, pp.333-350. Cambridge University Press. [Symposia of the Zoological Society of London, 72, 333-350.]
Byrne, R W (1996) Relating brain size to intelligence. In P A Mellars and K R Gibson (Eds.) Modelling the early human mind, pp.49-56. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge.
Byrne, R W (1996) The misunderstood ape: cognitive skills of the gorilla. In A E Russon, K A Bard and S T Parker (Eds.) Reachinginto thought: the minds of the great apes, pp.111-130. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Byrne, R W (1994) The evolution of intelligence. In P J B Slater and T R Halliday (Eds.) Behaviour and Evolution, pp.223-265. Cambridge University Press.
Social learning, imitation and behaviour parsing: evidence and theory
Byrne, R W, Hobaiter, C and Klailova, M (2011) Local traditions in gorilla manual skill: Evidence for observational learning of behavioural organization. Animal Cognition, 14, 683-693. DOI: 10.1007/s10071-011-0403-8
Hobaiter, C and Byrne, R W (2010) Able-bodied chimpanzees imitate a disabled individual. PLoS-ONE, 5, Issue 8, e11959; doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0011959
Bates, LA & Byrne, RW (2010) Imitation: what animal imitation tells us about animal cognition. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science 1, 685-695.
Topál, J, Byrne, R W, Miklósi, A, Csányi, V (2006) Reproducing human actions and action sequences: "Do as I Do!" in a dog. Animal Cognition, 9, 355-367.
Byrne, R W (2002) Seeing actions as hierarchically organized structures. Great ape manual skills. In A Meltzoff and W Prinz (Eds) The Imitative Mind: Development, Evolution, and Brain Bases, pp.122-140. Cambridge University Press.
Byrne, R W (2000) Changing views on imitation in primates. In S C Strum & L M Fedigan (Eds.) Primateencounters: models of science, gender and society, pp.296-309. University of Chicago Press.
Byrne, R W (1999) Imitation without intentionality: using string-parsing to copy the organization of behaviour. Animal Cognition, 2, 63-72.
Byrne, R W (1999) Cognition in great ape ecology. Skill-learning ability opens up foraging opportunities. In H O Box & K R Gibson (eds), Mammalian social learning. Comparative and ecological perspectives, pp.333-350. Cambridge University Press. [Symposia of the Zoological Society of London, 72, 333-350.]
Byrne, R W and Tomasello, M (1995) Do rats ape? Animal Behaviour, 50, 1417-1420.
Byrne, R W (1994) The evolution of intelligence. In P J B Slater and T R Halliday (Eds.) Behaviour and Evolution, pp.223-265. Cambridge University Press.
Skilled manual foraging, tool use, disability and the question of animal culture
Hockings, K J, McLennan, M R, Carvalho, S, Ancrenaz, M, Bobe, R, Byrne, R W, Dunbar, R I M, Matsuzawa, T, McGrew, W C, Williamson, E A, Wilson, M L, Wood, B, Wrangham, R W, and Hill, C M. (2015) Apes in the Anthropocene: flexibility and survival. Trends in Evolution & Ecology, 30, 215-222. DOI 10.1016/j.tree.2015.02.002
Stokes, E J & Byrne, R W (2006) The effect of snare injuries on the fig-feeding behaviour of chimpanzees of the Budongo Forest, Uganda: behavioural adaptations and long term implications. In N E Newton-Fisher, H Nottman and V Reynolds (Eds.) The primates of WesternUganda. Springer.
Byrne, R W (2005) The maker not the tool: The cognitive significance of great ape manual skills. In V Roux and B Bril (Eds.) Stone Knapping: the necessary conditions for a uniquely hominid behaviour, pp.159-169. McDonald Institute Monograph series, Cambridge.
Byrne, R W (2004) The manual skills behind hominid tool use. In A E Russon and D R Begun (Eds.) Evolutionary origins of great ape intelligence, pp.31-44. Cambridge University Press.
Byrne, R W, Barnard, P J, Davidson, I, Janik, V M, McGrew, W C, Miklósi, A & Wiessner, P (2004) Understanding culture across species. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8,341-346.
Corp, N & Byrne, R W (2002) The ontogeny of manual skill in wild chimpanzees: Evidence from feeding on the fruit of Saba florida. Behaviour, 139, 137-168.
Corp, N & Byrne, R W (2002) Leaf processing of wild chimpanzees: Physically defended leaves reveal complex manual skills. Ethology, 108, 1-24.
Byrne, R W, Corp, N, and Byrne, J M (2001) Manual dexterity in the gorilla: bimanual and digit role differentiation in a natural task. Animal Cognition, 4, 347-361.
Byrne, R W, Corp, N & Byrne, J M (2001) Estimating the complexity of animal behaviour: How mountain gorillas eat thistles. Behaviour, 138, 525-557.
Stokes, E J and Byrne, R W (2001) Cognitive capacities for behavioural flexibility in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes):The effect of snare injury on complex manual food processing. Animal Cognition, 4, 11-28.
Byrne, R W and Byrne, J M E (1993) The complex leaf-gathering skills of mountain gorillas (Gorilla g. beringei): variability and standardization. American Journal of Primatology, 31, 241-261.
Byrne, R W and Byrne, J M E (1991) Hand preferences in the skilled gathering tasks of mountain gorillas. (Gorilla g. beringei). Cortex, 27, 521-546.
Cochet, H and Byrne, R W (2013) Evolutionary origins of human handedness: evaluating contrasting hypotheses. Animal Cognition 16, 531-542. DOI 10.1007/s10071-013-0626-y
Farmer, K, Krueger, K and Byrne, RW (2010) Visual laterality in the domestic horse (Equus caballus) in interaction with humans. Animal Cognition, 12, 229-238, DOI 10.1007/s10071-009-0260-x
Byrne, R W and Byrne, J M E (1991) Hand preferences in the skilled gathering tasks of mountain gorillas. (Gorilla g. beringei). Cortex, 27, 521-546.
Gestural communication in great apes
Byrne, RW, Cartmill, E, Genty, E, Graham, K E, Hobaiter, C & Tanner, J E (2017) Great ape gestures. Intentional communication with a rich set of innate signals. Animal Cognition 20, 755-769
Hobaiter, C, Byrne, R W, Zuberbühler, K (2017) Wild chimpanzees’ use of single and combined vocal and gestural signals. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology 71, 96, DOI 10.1007/s00265-017-2325-1
Graham, K E, Furuichi, T & Byrne, R W (2017) The gestural repertoire of the wild bonobo (Pan paniscus): a mutually understood communication system. Animal Cognition 20:171–177 DOI 10.1007/s10071-016-1035-9
Cochet, H & Byrne, R W (2016) Communication in the second and third year of life: Relationships between nonverbal social skills and language. Infant Behaviourand Development. 44, 189–19
Hobaiter, C & Byrne, R W (2014) The meanings of chimpanzee gestures. Current Biology24, 1596-1600. DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2014.05.066
Hobaiter, C and Byrne, R W (2013) Le flexibilité et l’intentionnalité dans la communication gestuelle chez les grands singes non-humains (Flexibility and intentionality in non-human great ape gestural communication). RevuePrimatologie5 Varia. DOI 10.4000/primatologie.1713
Hobaiter, C & Byrne, R W (2012) Gesture use in consortship: wild chimpanzees' use of gesture for an 'evolutionarily urgent' purpose In S Pika and K Liebal (Eds.), Developments in Primate Gesture Research, pp. 129-146. John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam.
Hobaiter, C and Byrne, R W (2011) Serial gesturing by wild chimpanzees: its nature and function for communication. Animal Cognition, 14, 827–838. DOI 10.1007/s10071-011-0416-3
Hobaiter, C and Byrne, R W (2011) The gestural repertoire of the wild chimpanzee. Animal Cognition, 14, 745-767. DOI 10.1007/s10071-011-0409-2
Cartmill, E A & Byrne, R W (2010) The semantics of primate gestures: intentional meanings of orangutan gestures. Animal Cognition, DOI:10.1007/s10071-010-0328-7 Support Materials
Genty, E and Byrne, R W (2010) Why do gorillas make sequences of gestures? Animal Cognition, 13, 287-301, DOI 10.1007/s10071-009-0266-4
Genty, E, Breuer, T, Hobaiter, C, and Byrne, R W (2009) Gestural communication of the gorilla (Gorilla gorilla): Repertoire, intentionality, and possible origins. Animal Cognition 12:527–546.
Cartmill, E A and Byrne, R W (2007) Orangutans modify their gestural signalling according to their audience's comprehension. Current Biology, 17, 1345-1348
Tanner, J E, Patterson, F G and Byrne, R W (2006) The development of spontaneous gestures in zoo-living gorillas and sign-taught gorillas: from action and location to object representation. Journal of Developmental Processes 1, 69-102.
Tanner, J E and Byrne R W (1996) Representation of action through iconic gesture in a captive lowland gorilla. Current Anthropology, 37, 162-173.
Vocal communication in primates
Fallon B, Neumann C, Byrne R W, Zuberbühler K (2016) Female chimpanzees adjust copulation calls according to reproductive status and level of female competition. Animal Behaviour 113, 87-92
Cäsar, C, Zuberbühler, K, Young, R J and Byrne, R W (2013) Titi monkey call sequences vary with predator location and type. Biology Letters, 9, 20130535
Da Cunha, R G T and Byrne, R W (2013) Age-related differences in the use of the "moo" call in black howler monkeys (Alouatta caraya). International Journal of Primatology, 34, 1105–1121. DOI 10.1007/s10764-013-9718-4
Cäsar, C, Byrne R, Young R J and Zuberbühler, K (2012) The alarm call system of wild black-fronted titi monkeys, Callicebus nigrifrons. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology, 66, 653–667. DOI 10.1007/s00265-011-1313-0
Cäsar, C, Byrne, R W, Hoppitt, W, Young, R J and Zuberbühler, K. (2012) Evidence for semantic communication in Titi monkey alarm calls. Animal Behaviour, 84, 405-411.
Da Cunha, R G T and Byrne, R W (2006) Roars of black howler monkeys (Alouatta caraya): evidence for a function in inter-group spacing. Behaviour, 143, 1169-1199.
Teixidor, P and Byrne, R W (1999) The 'whinny' of spider monkeys: individual recognition before situational meaning. Behaviour, 136, 279-308.
Teixidor, P and Byrne, R W (1997) Can spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) discriminate vocalizations of familiar individuals and strangers? Folia Primatologica, 68, 254-264.
Mitani, J C, Hasegawa, T, Gros-Louis, J, Marler, P, and Byrne, R (1992) Dialects in wild chimpanzees? American Journal ofPrimatology, 27, 233-243.
Byrne, R W (1981) Distance vocalisations of Guinea baboons (Papio papio): an analysis of function. Behaviour, 78, 283-312.
Understanding others
Townsend, S W, Koski, S E, Byrne, R W, Slocombe, K E, Burkart, J, van Schaik, C, Glock, H J, Goncalves, I B, Linke, A, Zuberbühler, K, Wild, M, Vail, A, Liebal, K, Gruber, T, Waller, B, Bickel, B, Böckle, M, Flower, T, Miklosi, A, Jansen, D A W A M, Gaunet, F, Stoll, S, and Manser, M B (2016) Exorcising Grice’s ghost: an empirical approach to studying intentional communication in animals. Biological Reviews DOI:10.1111/brv.12289
Hall, K, Oram, MW, Campbell, MW, Eppley, TE, Byrne, RW and de Waal, FBM (2014) Using cross correlations to investigate how chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) use conspecific gaze cues to extract and exploit information in a foraging competition. American Journal of Primatology DOI: 10.1002/ajp.22279
Tanner, J E & Byrne, R W (2010) Triadic and collaborative play by gorillas in social games with objects. Animal Cognition, DOI 10.1007/s10071-009-0308-y
Ruiz, A, Gomez, J C, Roeder, J J, and Byrne, R W (2009) Gaze following and gaze priming in lemurs. Animal Cognition 12:427–434.
Byrne, R W (2000) A sign of acceptance. In M Bekoff (Ed) The smile of a dolphin. Remarkable accounts of animal behavior, pp.192-3. Random House.
Byrne, R W and Byrne, J M (1997) Leopard killers of Mahale. In R L Ciochon & R Nisbett (Eds.) The primate anthology, pp. 113-118. Prentice Hall.
Tanner, J E and Byrne, R W (1993) Concealing facial evidence of mood: evidence for perspective-taking in a captive gorilla? Primates, 34, 451-456.
Hiraiwa-Hasegawa, M, Byrne, R W and Takasaki, H and Byrne, J M (1986) Aggression towards large carnivores by wild chimpanzees of Mahale Mountains National Park, Tanzania. Folia Primatologica, 47, 8-13.
Tactical deception in primates
Hall, K, Oram, M W, Campbell, M W, Epple, T M, Byrne, R W, de Waal, F B M (2016) Chimpanzee uses manipulative gaze cues to conceal and reveal information to foraging competitor. American Journal of Primatology DOI 10.1002/ajp.22622
Byrne, R W (2010) Deception: competition by misleading behaviour. In M D Breed and J Moore (Eds.), Encyclopaedia of Animal Behavior. Academic Press: Oxford.
Byrne, R W & Stokes, E J (2003) Can monkeys malinger? In P W Halligan, Chris Bass & David Oakley (eds) Malingering & Illness Deception, pp.52-65. Clinical and theoretical perspectives. Oxford University Press.
Byrne, R W and Whiten, A (1985) Tactical deception of familiar individuals in baboons (Papio ursinus). Animal Behaviour, 33, 669-673.
Future planning, cognitive maps and navigation
Janmaat, K R L, Boesch, C, Byrne, R W, Chapman, C A, Zoro, B, Gono, B, Head, J S, Robbins, M M, Wrangham, R W, Polanski, L (2016) Spatio-temporal complexity of chimpanzee food: How cognitive adaptations can counteract the ephemeral nature of ripe fruit. American Journal of Primatology DOI:10.1002/ajp.22527
Noser, R and Byrne, R W (2015) Wild chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) remember single foraging episodes. Animal Cognition,18, 921–929. DOI 10.1007/s10071-015-0862-4
Noser, R and Byrne, R W (2014) Change point analysis of travel routes reveals novel insights into foraging strategies and cognitive maps of wild baboons. American Journal of Primatology, 76, 399-409. DOI 10.1002/ajp.22181
Noser, R and Byrne, R W (2010) How do wild baboons (Papio ursinus) plan their routes when foraging for high-quality resources that are scarce and ephemeral? Animal Cognition, 13, 145-155, DOI: 10.1007/s10071-009-0254-8
Bates, L A and Byrne, R W (2009) Sex differences in the movement of free-ranging chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii). Behavioural Ecology & Sociobiology. DOI 10.1007/s00265-009-0841-3
Byrne, R W, Noser, R G, Bates, L A, Jupp, P E (2009) How did they get here from there? Detecting changes of direction in terrestrial ranging. Animal Behaviour, 77, 619-631.
Janson, C and Byrne, R W (2007) Resource cognition in wild primates – opening up the black box.Animal Cognition, 10, 357-367.
Noser, R and Byrne, R W (2007) Travel routes and planning of visits to out-of-sight resources in wild chacma baboons (Papio ursinus). Animal Behaviour, 73, 257-266.
Noser, R and Byrne, R W (2007) Mental maps of chacma baboons (Papio ursinus): using intergroup encounters as a natural experiment. Animal Cognition, 10, 331-340.
Valero, A and Byrne, R W (2007) Spider monkey ranging patterns in Mexican subtropical forest: Do travel routes reflect planning?Animal Cognition, 10, 305-315.
Janmaat, K R L, Byrne, R W and Zuberbühler, K (2006) Primates take weather into account when searching for fruits. Current Biology, 16, 1232-1237.
Janmaat, K R L, Byrne, R W & Zuberbühler, K (2006) Evidence for a spatial memory of fruiting states of rain forest trees in wild mangabeys. Animal Behaviour, 72, 797-807.
Byrne, R W (1977) Planning meals: problem-solving on a real data-base. Cognition, 5, 287-232.
Elephant social cognition
Smet, A F and Byrne, R W (2014) African elephants (Loxodonta africana) recognize visual attention from face and body orientation. Biology Letters, 10, 7, 20140428
Smet, A F and Byrne, R W (2014) Interpretation of human pointing by African elephants: generalisation and rationality. Animal Cognition. DOI: 10.1007/s10071-014-0772-x
Byrne, R W & Bates, L A (2011) Elephant cognition: what we know about what elephants know. In C J Moss, H Croze & P C Lee (Eds) The Amboseli elephants: a long-term perspective on a long-lived mammal, pp.174-182. University of Chicago Press.
Bates, L A, Handford, R, Lee, P C, Njiraini, N, Poole, J H, Sayialel, K, Sayialel, S, Moss, C J and Byrne R W (2010) Why do African elephants (Loxodonta africana) simulate oestrus? An analysis of longitudinal data. PLoS-ONE, 5, Issue 4, e10052, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0010052
Bates, L A, Njiraini, N, Sayialel, K, Moss, C J, Poole, J, and Byrne, R W (2007) African elephants have expectations about the locations of out-of-sight family members. Biology Letters DOI:10.1098/sbl.2007.0529.
Bates, L A, Njiraini, N, Sayialel, K, Moss, C J, Poole, J, and Byrne, R W (2007) Elephants classify human ethnic groups by olfaction. Current Biology DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2007.09.060.
Bates, L A and Byrne, R W (2007) Creative or Created: Using anecdotes to investigate animal cognition. Methods, 42, 12-21.
Held, S D E, Byrne, R W, Jones, S, Murphy, E, Friel, M and Mendl, M T (2010) Domestic pigs, Sus scrofa, adjust their foraging behaviour to whom they are foraging with. Animal Behaviour, 79, 857-862.
Held, S, Baumgartner, J, Kilbride, A, Byrne, R W & Mendl, M (2005) Foraging behaviour in domestic pigs (Sus scrofa): remembering and prioritizing food sites of different value. Animal Cognition, 8, 114-121
Held, S, Mendl, M, Devereux, C, and Byrne, R W (2002) Foraging pigs alter their behaviour in response to exploitation. Animal Behaviour, 64, 157-166.
Held, S, Mendl, M, Laughlin, K & Byrne, R W (2002) Cognition studies with pigs: livestock cognition and its implications for production. Journal of Animal Science, 80, E10-E17.
Held, S, Mendl, M, Devereux, C, and Byrne, R W (2001) Behaviour of domestic pigs in a visual perspective taking task. Behaviour, 138, 1337-1354.
Held, S., Mendl, M., Devereux, C. and Byrne, R.W. (2001). Studies in social cognition: from primates to pigs. Animal Welfare, 10, S209-217.
Held, S, Mendl, M, Devereux, C, and Byrne, R W (2000) Social tactics of pigs in a competitive foraging task: the 'Informed Forager' paradigm. Animal Behaviour, 59, 559-576.
Riley, J L, Noble, D W A, Byrne, R W and Whiting, M J (2016) Does social environment influence learning ability in a family-living lizard? Animal Cognition DOI 10.1007/s10071-016-1068-0
Riley J L, Küechler, A, Damasio, T, Noble, D W A, Byrne, R W, and Whiting, M J (2018) Learning ability is unaffected by isolation rearing in a family-living lizard. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 72, 20
Riley, J L, Guidou, C, Fryns, C, Mourier, J, Leu, S, Noble, D W A, Byrne, R W and Whiting, M J (2018) Isolation rearing does not constrain social plasticity in a family-living lizard. Behavioral Ecology
Behavioural ecology of baboons
Henzi, S P, Lycett, J E, Weingrill, T, Byrne, R and A Whiten (1997) The effect of troop size on travel and foraging in mountain baboons. South African Journal of Science, 93, 333-335.
Barton, R A, Byrne, R W, and Whiten, A (1996) Ecology, feeding competition and female bonding in baboons. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology, 38, 321-329.
Barton, R A, Whiten, A, Byrne, R W and English, M (1993) Chemical composition of baboon plant foods: implications for the interpretation of intra- and interspecific differences in diet. Folia Primatologica, 61, 1-20.
Byrne, R W, Whiten, A, Henzi, S P and McCulloch F M (1993) Nutritional constraints on mountain baboons (Papio ursinus): implications for baboon socioecology. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 33, 233-246.
Barton, R A, Whiten, A, Strum, S S, Byrne, R W, and Simpson, A J, (1992) Habitat use and resource availability in baboons. Animal Behaviour, 43, 831-844.
Henzi, S P, Byrne, R W and Whiten, A (1992) Patterns of movement by baboons in the Drakensberg Mountains: Primary responses to the environment. International Journal of Primatology, 13, 601-628.
Byrne, R W, Whiten, A and Henzi, S P (1990) Social relationships in mountain baboons: leadership and affiliation in a non-female-bonded monkey. American Journal of Primatology, 20, 313-329.
Byrne, R W, Whiten, A and Henzi, S P (1990) Measuring the food available to mountain baboons. In M T de Mello, A Whiten and R W Byrne (Eds.) Baboons: Behaviour and ecology, use and care. University Press, Brasilia.
Whiten, A, Byrne, R W, Waterman, P, Henzi, S P and McCulloch, F M (1990) Specifying the rules underlying selective foraging in wild mountain baboons, P. ursinus. In M T de Mello, A Whiten and R W Byrne (Eds.) Baboons: Behaviour and ecology, useand care. University Press, Brasilia.
Byrne, R W, Whiten, A and Henzi, S P (1987) One-male groups and intergroup interactions of mountain baboons (Papio ursinus). International Journal of Primatology, 8, 615-633.