Publications

Research articles

• Rüegg, M*., Motes-Rodrigo, A*., Stroeymeyt, N., Richardson, T.O., Sakar, M. S.,  Keller, L. (2023) Precise tactile stimulation of worker ants by a robotic manipulator reveals that individual responses are density- and context-dependent. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14244  *shared first-authors

• Motes-Rodrigo, A. (2023) A primatological perspective on human cultural origins. Metode Science Studies Journal (118 Special issue on Primatology). DOI: https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.14.26517

• Motes-Rodrigo, A., Tennie, C. & Hernandez-Aguilar, R. A. (2022) Bone-related behaviours of captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) during two excavating experiments. Primates 64:35-46 DOI:10.1007/s10329-022-01033-w

• ManyPrimates et al. (including Motes-Rodrigo, A.) (2022) The evolution of primate short-term memory. Animal Behavior and Cognition 9:428:516 DOI: https://doi.org/10.26451/abc.09.04.06.2022

• Bandini, E., Harrison, R. & Motes-Rodrigo, A. (2022) Examining the suitability of extant primates as models of hominin stone tool culture. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications 9:74. DOI: 10.1057/s41599-022-01091-x

• Motes-Rodrigo, A., McPherron, P., Archer, W., et al. (2022) Experimental investigation of orangutans' lithic percussive and sharp stone tool behaviours. PLoS ONE 17(2): e0263343. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0263343

•  Forss, S. I. F., Motes-Rodrigo, A., Dongre, P., Mohr, T. & van de Waal, E. (2021) Captivity and habituation to humans raise curiosity in vervet monkeys.  Animal Cognition DOI: 10.1007/s10071-021-01589-y

• Motes-Rodrigo, A. & Tennie, C. (2021). Captive great apes tend to innovate simple tool behaviors quickly.  American Journal of Primatology Online. DOI: 10.1002/ajp.23311

• Motes-Rodrigo, A. & Tennie, C. (2021). The Method of Local Restriction: in search of potential great ape culture-dependent forms. Biological Reviews. DOI: 10.1111/brv.12710

• Bandini, E*., Motes-Rodrigo, A*., Archer, W. et al. (2021) Naïve, unenculturated chimpanzees fail to make and use flaked stone tools [version 2; peer review: 3 approved]. Open Research Europe, 1: 20 . *shared first authors

• Motes-Rodrigo, A., Mundry, R., Call, J., Tennie, C. (2021). Evaluating the influence of action- and subject-specific factors on chimpanzee action copying. Royal Society Open Science 8:200228.

• Forss, S. I. F., Motes‐Rodrigo, A., Hrubesch, C., & Tennie, C. (2020). Chimpanzees' (Pan troglodytes) problem-solving skills are influenced by housing facility and captive care duration. PeerJ 8:e10263.

• Bandini, E.*, Motes-Rodrigo, A.*, Steele, M., Rutz, C. & Tennie, C. (2020). Examining the mechanisms underlying the acquisition of animal tool behaviour. Biology Letters 16: 20200122. *shared first authors.

• ManyPrimates et al. (including Motes-Rodrigo, A.)(2019). Collaborative open science as a way to reproducibility and new insights in primate cognition research. Japanese Psychological Review 62: 205-220.

• ManyPrimates et al. (including Motes-Rodrigo, A.)(2019) Establishing an infrastructure for collaboration in primate cognition research. PLoS ONE 14(10): e0223675. 

• Motes-Rodrigo, A., Majlesi, P., Pickering, T.R., Laska, M., Axelsen, H., Minchin, T.C., et al. (2019) Chimpanzee extractive foraging with excavating tools: Experimental modeling of the origins of human technology. PLoS ONE 14: e0215644. 

• Motes-Rodrigo, A., Hernandez-Aguilar, R. A., & Laska, M. (2019). Preferential hand use by captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in manual and tool digging. Primates 60, 1-7.

• Forss, S. I. F., Motes‐Rodrigo, A., Hrubesch, C., & Tennie, C. (2019). Differences in novel food response between Pongo and Pan. American journal of primatology 81(1): e22945.

• Motes-Rodrigo, A., Ramirez-Torres, C. E., Hernandez-Salazar, L. T., Laska, M. (2018). Hand Preferences in Two Unimanual and Two Bimanual Coordinated Tasks in the Black-Handed Spider Monkey (Ateles geoffroyi). Journal of Comparative Psychology 132: 220-229. 

• Motes-Rodrigo, A., Labra, A. Lampe, H. M. (2017). Breeding Experience and not Age Modulates the Song Development of Pied Flycatchers (Ficedula hypoleuca). Ethology 123: 197-204. 

Book chapters

• Motes-Rodrigo, A. & Tennie, C. (2024) Ape knapping then and now: limited social learning of sharp-stone tool production and use in untrained non-human apes. In: Biocultural Implications: An Agenda for Integrative Approaches (eds. A. Karakostis & G. Jäger) DOI: 10.51315/9783935751384.005

• ManyPrimates et al. (including Motes-Rodrigo, A.)(2022) Collaboration and Open Science Initiatives in Primate Research. In: Primate Cognitive Studies (eds. M. J. Beran & B. Schwartz). Cambridge University Press.

• Farrar, B. G., Krupenye, C., Motes-Rodrigo, A., Tennie, C., Fischer, J., Altschul, D. M. & Ostojic, L. (2022) Replication and Reproducibility in Primate Cognition Research. In: Primate Cognitive Studies (eds. M. J. Beran & B. Schwartz). Cambridge University Press.

Other publications

• Motes-Rodrigo, A., Reindl, E., Bandini, E. (2020). The technical reasoning hypothesis does not rule out the potential key roles of imitation and working memory for CTC. Commentary on Osiurak F, Reynaud E. (2020). The elephant in the room: What matters cognitively in cumulative technological culture. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 1–66.

• Forss, S. I. F., Motes‐Rodrigo, A. & Tennie, C. (2019). Animal Behavior: Ape curiosity on camera. Current Biology 29(7), R255-R257. Dispatch