Research
Publications
Dautriche I., Buccola B., Berthet M., Fagot J., Chemla E. (2022) “Evidence for compositionality in baboons (Papio papio) through the test case of negation”, Scientific Reports, doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-21143-1, PDF
Berthet M., Coye C., Dezecache G., Kuhn J. (2022) «Animal linguistics: a primer”, Biological Reviews, doi: 10.1111/brv.12897, PDF
Berthet M., Mesbahi G., Cäsar C., Zuberbühler K. (2022) «Impact of predator model presentation paradigms on titi monkey alarm sequences”, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, doi: 10.1007/s00265-022-03250-1, PDF
Narbona Sabaté L., Mesbahi G., Dezecache G., Cäsar C., Zuberbühler K., Berthet M. (2022) "Animal linguistics in the making: the Urgency Principle and titi monkeys’ alarm system", Ethology Ecology & Evolution, doi: 10.1080/03949370.2021.2015452, PDF
Berthet M., Mesbahi G., Duvot G., Zuberbühler K., Cäsar C., Bicca-Marques J.C. (2021) “Dramatic decline in a titi monkey population after the 2016-2018 sylvatic yellow fever outbreak in Brazil”, American Journal of Primatology e23335, doi: 10.1002/ajp.23335, PDF
Briseño-Jaramillo M., Berthet M., Estrada A., Biquand V., Lemasson A. (2021) “Socially mediated overlap in vocal interactions between free-ranging black howler monkeys”, American Journal of Primatology 83(8): e23297, doi: 10.1002/ajp.23297, PDF
Berthet M., Zuberbühler K. (2020) “Alarm Calling” In: Shackelford T., Weekes-Shackelford V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham, doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6, PDF
Berthet M., Benjumea J., Millet J., Cäsar C., Zuberbühler K., Dunbar E. (2019, December) “Animal linguistics and the puzzle of titi monkeys alarm sequences” Conference proceeding, presented at the 22nd Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam, Netherlands, PDF
Souza-Alves J.P., Mourthe I., Hilário R.R., Acero-Murcia A.C., Adret P., Aquino R., Berthet M., et al. (2019) “Terrestrial behavior in titi monkeys (Callicebus, Cheracebus and Plecturocebus): Potential correlates, patterns and differences between genera”, International Journal of Primatology, doi: 10.1007/s10764-019-00105-x, PDF
Berthet M., Mesbahi G., Pajot A., Cäsar C., Neumann C.*, Zuberbühler K.* (2019) “Titi monkeys combine alarm calls to create probabilistic meaning”, Science Advances, 5: eaav3991, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aav3991, PDF
Commier S. & Berthet M. (2019) “Commentary: Titi semantics: context and meaning in Titi monkey call sequences”, Frontiers in Psychology, 10:512, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00512, PDF
Dezecache G. & Berthet M. (2018) “Working hypotheses on the meaning of general alarm calls”, Animal Behaviour, 142:113-118, doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2018.06.008, PDF
Berthet M. (2018) “Semantic content in titi monkey alarm call sequences” (Doctorate dissertation) University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, PDF
Berthet M., Neumann C., Mesbahi G., Cäsar C., Zuberbühler K. (2018) “Contextual encoding in titi monkey alarm call sequences“, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 72:8, doi: 10.1007/s00265-017-2424-z, PDF