Publications of Carel P. van Schaik

Permana, A. L.; Permana, J. J.; Nellissen, L.; Prayogi, E. S.; Prasetyo, D.; Wich, S. A.; van Schaik, C. P.; Schuppli, C.: Observational social learning of "know-how" and "know-what" in wild orangutans: evidence from nest-building skill acquisition. Communications Biology 8 (1), 890 (2025)

Sehner, S.; Willems, E. P.; Baumeyer, A.; Davis, L.; van Schaik, C. P.; Burkart, J. M.: Sensitivity to immature skill deficits. Food sharing experiments in squirrel nonkeys (Saimiri boliviensis) and common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus). Journal of Comparative Psychology (2025)

Bickel, B.; Giraud, A.-L.; Zuberbuehler, K.; van Schaik, C. P.: Language follows a distinct mode of extra-genomic evolution. Physics of Life Reviews 50, pp. 211 - 225 (2024)

Fröhlich, M.; van Noordwijk, M. A.; Setia, T. M.; van Schaik, C. P.; Knief, U.: Wild and captive immature orangutans differ in their non-vocal communication with others, but not with their mothers. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 78 (1), 12 (2024)

Gunasekaram, C.; Battiston, F.; Sadekar, O.; Padilla-Iglesias, C.; van Noordwijk, M. A.; Furrer, R.; Manica, A.; Bertranpetit, J.; Whiten, A.; van Schaik, C. P. et al.; Vinicius, L.; Migliano, A. B.: Population connectivity shapes the distribution and complexity of chimpanzee cumulative culture. Science 386 (6724), pp. 920 - 925 (2024)

Kunz, J. A.; Falkner, S. S.; Aprilinayati, F.; Duvot, G. J.; Fröhlich, M.; Willems, E. P.; Atmoko, S. S. U.; van Schaik, C. P.; Schuppli, C.; van Noordwijk, M. A.: Play behavior varies with age, sex, and socioecological context in wild, immature Orangutans (Pongo spp.). International Journal of Primatology (2024)

Permana, A. L.; Permana, J. J.; Nellissen, L.; Prasetyo, D.; Wich, S. A.; van Schaik, C. P.; Schuppli, C.: The ontogeny of nest-building behaviour in Sumatran orang-utans, Pongo abelii. Animal Behaviour 211, pp. 53 - 67 (2024)

van Schaik, C. P.; Jacobs, I.; Burkart, J. M.; Sauciuc, G.-A.; Schuppli, C.; Persson, T.; Song, Z.: Short-term memory, attentional control and brain size in primates. Royal Society Open Science 11 (5), 231541 (2024)

Griesser, M.; Drobniak, S. M.; Graber, S. M.; van Schaik, C. P.: Parental provisioning drives brain size in birds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120 (2), e2121467120 (2023)

Kunz, J. A.; Duvot, G. J.; Ashbury, A. M.; Willems, E. P.; Spillmann, B.; Dunkel, L. P.; bin Abdullah, M.; Schuppli, C.; Vogel, E. R.; Atmoko, S. S. U. et al.; van Noordwijk, M. A.; van Schaik, C. P.: Alternative reproductive tactics of unflanged and flanged male orangutans revisited. American Journal of Primatology 85 (9), e23535 (2023)

Mörchen, J.; Luhn, F.; Wassmer, O.; Kunz, J. A.; Kulik, L.; van Noordwijk, M. A.; van Schaik, C. P.; Rianti, P.; Atmoko, S. S. U.; Widdig, A. et al.; Schuppli, C.: Migrant orangutan males use social learning to adapt to new habitat after dispersal. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11, 1158887 (2023)

Song, Z.; Griesser, M.; Schuppli, C.; van Schaik, C. P.: Does the expensive brain hypothesis apply to amphibians and reptiles? BMC Ecology and Evolution 23 (1), 77 (2023)

van Noordwijk, M. A.; LaBarge, L. R.; Kunz, J. A.; Marzec, A. M.; Spillmann, B.; Ackermann, C.; Rianti, P.; Vogel, E. R.; Atmoko, S. S. U.; Kruetzen, M. et al.; van Schaik, C. P.: Reproductive success of Bornean orangutan males: scattered in time but clustered in space. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 77 (12), 134 (2023)

van Schaik, C. P.; Song, Z.; Schuppli, C.; Drobniak, S. M.; Heldstab, S. A.; Griesser, M.: Extended parental provisioning and variation in vertebrate brain sizes. PLoS Biology 21 (2), e3002016 (2023)

Ashbury, A. M.; Meric de Bellefon, J.; Kunz, J. A.; Abdullah, M.; Marzec, A. M.; Fryns, C.; Utami Atmoko, S. S.; van Schaik, C. P.; van Noordwijk, M. A.: After the smoke has cleared: Extended low fruit productivity following forest fires decreased gregariousness and social tolerance among wild female Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii). International Journal of Primatology 43 (2), pp. 189 - 215 (2022)

Fröhlich, M.; van Schaik, C. P.: Social tolerance and interactional opportunities as drivers of gestural redoings in orang-utans. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 377 (1859), 20210106 (2022)

Fröhlich, M.; van Schaik, C. P.; van Noordwijk, M. A.; Knief, U.: Individual variation and plasticity in the infant-directed communication of orang-utan mothers. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 289 (1975), 20220200 (2022)

Heldstab, S. A.; Isler, K.; Graber, S. M.; Schuppli, C.; van Schaik, C. P.: The economics of brain size evolution in vertebrates. Current Biology 32 (12), pp. R697 - R708 (2022)

Fröhlich, M.; Bartolotta, N.; Fryns, C.; Wagner, C.; Momon, L.; Jaffrezic, M.; Setia, T. M.; Schuppli, C.; van Noordwijk, M. A.; van Schaik, C. P.: Orang-utans have larger gestural repertoires in captivity than in the wild–a case of weak innovation? iScience 24 (11), 103304 (2021)

Schuppli, C.; van Schaik, C. P.: Animal cultures: how we've only seen the tip of the iceberg. Evolutionary Human Sciences 1, e2 (2019)

Kunz, J. A.; van Noordwijk, M. A.; van Schaik, C. P.: Orangutan sexual behavior. In: The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Sexual Psychology: Volume 4: Controversies, Applications, and Nonhuman Primate Extensions, pp. 401 - 425 (Ed. Shackelford, T. K.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2022)

Koops, K.; Schuppli, C.; van Schaik, C. P.: Cultural primatology. In: The International Encyclopedia of Biological Anthropology (Eds. Trevathan, W.; Cartmill, M.; Dufour, D.; Larsen, C.; O'Rourke, D. et al.) (2018)