Publications of Lucy M. Aplin
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Journal Article (48)
Journal Article
92 (1), pp. 171 - 182 (2023)
Social network analysis reveals context-dependent kin relationships in wild sulphur-crested cockatoos Cacatua galerita. Journal of Animal Ecology
Journal Article
77 (1), 13 (2023)
Tits (Paridae sp.) use social information when locating and choosing nest lining material. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
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Manipulating actions: A selective two-option device for cognitive experiments in wild animals. Journal of Animal Ecology (2023)
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14 (1), pp. 87 - 192 (2023)
Internet on animals: Wi-Fi-enabled devices provide a solution for big data transmission in biologging. Methods in Ecology and Evolution
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12 (8), e9242 (2022)
The performance of field sampling for parasite detection in a wild passerine. Ecology and Evolution
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13, 1630 (2022)
Machine learning reveals cryptic dialects that explain mate choice in a songbird. Nature Communications
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377 (1843), 20200308 (2022)
Efficiency fosters cumulative culture across species. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences
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32 (20), pp. R1136 - R1140 (2022)
Culture in birds. Current Biology
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289 (1980), 20221001 (2022)
Cultural diffusion dynamics depend on behavioural production rules. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
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32 (17), pp. R910 - R911 (2022)
Is bin-opening in cockatoos leading to an innovation arms race with humans? Current Biology
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289 (1971), 20212397 (2022)
Coevolution of relative brain size and life expectancy in parrots. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
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377 (1843), 20200307 (2022)
Complex foraging behaviours in wild birds emerge from social learning and recombination of components. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences
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90 (9), pp. 2147 - 2160 (2021)
Connecting the data landscape of long‐term ecological studies: The SPI‐Birds data hub. Journal of Animal Ecology
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272 (6553), pp. 456 - 460 (2021)
Innovation and geographic spread of a complex foraging culture in an urban parrot. Science
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31 (11), pp. 2477 - 2483.e3 (2021)
Population turnover facilitates cultural selection for efficiency in birds. Current Biology
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288 (1949), 20202718 (2021)
A deepening understanding of animal culture suggests lessons for conservation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
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288 (1946), 20203107 (2021)
Social network architecture and the tempo of cumulative cultural evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
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90 (1), pp. 222 - 232 (2021)
A citizen science approach reveals long-term social network structure in an urban parrot, Cacatua galerita. Journal of Animal Ecology
Journal Article
167, pp. 161 - 176 (2020)
Environmental and life history factors, but not age, influence social learning about food: a meta-analysis. Animal Behaviour
Journal Article
166, pp. 139 - 146 (2020)
A primer on the relationship between group size and group performance. Animal Behaviour
Journal Article
116 (34), pp. 16674 - 16675 (2019)
Spurious inference when comparing networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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363 (6431), pp. 1032 - 1034 (2019)
Animal cultures matter for conservation. Science
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147, pp. 179 - 187 (2019)
Culture and cultural evolution in birds: A review of the evidence. Animal Behaviour
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14 (12), e1006647 (2018)
Movement and conformity interact to establish local behavioural traditions in animal populations. PLoS Computational Biology
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2 (11), pp. 1696 - 1699 (2018)
Personality shapes pair bonding in a wild bird social system. Nature Ecology & Evolution
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285 (1887), 20181282 (2018)
Social tipping points in animal societies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
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8, 14015 (2018)
Sigmoidal acquisition curves are good indicators of conformist transmission. Scientific Reports
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114 (30), pp. 7830 - 7837 (2017)
Conformity does not perpetuate suboptimal traditions in a wild population of songbirds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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129, pp. 93 - 101 (2017)
Individual and ecological determinants of social information transmission in the wild. Animal Behaviour
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14 (131), 20170215 (2017)
Modelling the spread of innovation in wild birds. Interface: Journal of the Royal Society
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128, pp. 21 - 32 (2017)
Male great tits assort by personality during the breeding season. Animal Behaviour
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284 (1854), 20170299 (2017)
Wild birds respond to flockmate loss by increasing their social network associations to others. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
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284 (1852), 20162872 (2017)
Stable producer–scrounger dynamics in wild birds: Sociability and learning speed covary with scrounging behaviour. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
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12, pp. 59 - 65 (2016)
Understanding the multiple factors governing social learning and the diffusion of innovations. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
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47 (5), pp. 678 - 689 (2016)
Individual variation in winter supplementary food consumption and its consequences for reproduction in wild birds. Journal of Avian Biology
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10 (8), e0133821 (2015)
Taking the operant paradigm into the field: Associative learning in wild great tits. PLoS One
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2 (4), 150057 (2015)
The role of social and ecological processes in structuring animal populations: A case study from automated tracking of wild birds. Royal Society Open Science
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110, pp. E5 - E8 (2015)
Counting conformity: Evaluating the units of information in frequency-dependent social learning. Animal Behaviour
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518 (7540), pp. 538 - 541 (2015)
Experimentally induced innovations lead to persistent culture via conformity in wild birds. Nature
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108, pp. 117 - 127 (2015)
Consistent individual differences in the social phenotypes of wild great tits, Parus major. Animal Behaviour
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282 (1803), 20142804 (2015)
Interspecific social networks promote information transmission in wild songbirds. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
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69 (5), pp. 857 - 866 (2015)
Inferring social structure from temporal data. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
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281 (1789), 20141016 (2014)
Individual-level personality influences social foraging and collective behaviour in wild birds. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
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95, pp. 173 - 182 (2014)
Collective decision making and social interaction rules in mixed-species flocks of songbirds. Animal Behaviour
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16 (11), pp. 1365 - 1372 (2013)
Individual personalities predict social behaviour in wild networks of great tits (Parus major). Ecology Letters
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85, pp. 1225 - 1232 (2013)
Milk bottles revisited: Social learning and individual variation in the blue tit, Cyanistes caeruleus. Animal Behaviour
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37 (2), pp. 248 - 257 (2012)
Ecological selection and sexual dimorphism in the sooty oystercatcher, Haematopus fuliginosus. Austral Ecology
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279 (1745), pp. 4199 - 4205 (2012)
Social networks predict patch discovery in a wild population of songbirds. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Book Chapter (1)
Book Chapter
Social learning and innovation. In: Avian cognition, pp. 93 - 118 (Eds. ten Cate, C.; Healy, S. D.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2017)