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Brenda McCowan, PhD Department of Population
Health & Reproduction
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McCowan, B. (1995). A new quantitative technique for categorizing whistles using simulated signals and whistles from captive bottlenose dolphins (Delphindae Tursiops truncatus). Ethology 100: 177- 193. [PDF] McCowan, B. and Reiss, D. (1995). Quantitative comparison of whistle repertoires from captive adult bottlenose dolphins (Delphindae Tursiops truncatus): a re-evaluation of the signature whistle hypothesis. Ethology 100: 193-209. [PDF] McCowan, B. and Reiss, D. (1995). Whistle contour development in captive-born infant bottlenose dolphins: role of learning. Journal of Comparative Psychology 109 (3): 242-260. [PDF] McCowan, B. and Reiss, D. (1995). Maternal aggressive contact vocalizations in captive bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus): wide-band, low frequency signals during mother/aunt-infant interactions. Zoo Biology 14 (4): 293-310. [PDF] Reiss, D., McCowan, B. and Marino, L. (1997). Communicative and other cognitive characteristics of dolphins. Trends in Cognitive Science 1 (4): 140-145. [PDF] McCowan, B., Reiss, D. and Gubbins, C. M. (1998). Social familiarity influences whistle acoustic structure in adult female bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). Aquatic Mammals 24: 21-40. [PDF] McCowan, B., Hanser, S. F. and Doyle, L. R. (1999). Quantitative tools for comparing animal communication systems: information theory applied to bottlenose dolphin whistle repertoires. Animal Behaviour 57: 409-419. [PDF] McCowan, B., Marino, L., Vance, E., Walke, L. and Reiss, D. (2000). Bubble ring play of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus): implications for cognition. Journal of Comparative Psychology 114: 98-106. [PDF] McCowan, B. and Newman, J. D. (2000). The role of learning in chuck call recognition by squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus). Behaviour 137: 279-300. [PDF] McCowan, B., Franceschini, N. V. and Vicino, G. A. (2001). Age differences and developmental trends in alarm peep responses by squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus). American Journal of Primatology 53(1): 19-31. [PDF] McCowan, B. and Reiss, D. (2001). The fallacy of 'signature whistles' in bottlenose dolphins: a comparative perspective of ‘signature information’ in animal vocalizations. Animal Behaviour 62 (6): 1151-1162. [PDF] McCowan, B. and Hooper, S. L. (2002). Individual acoustic variation in Belding’s ground squirrel alarm chirps in the High Sierra Nevada. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 111, 1157-1160. [PDF] McCowan, B., DiLorenzo, A. M., Abichandani, S., Borelli,C., and Cullor, J. S. (2002). Bioacoustic tools for enhancing animal productivity and management: Effects of recorded calf vocalizations on milk production in dairy cows. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 77, 13-20. [PDF] McCowan, B., Doyle, L. R. and Hanser, S. F. (2002). Using information theory to assess the diversity, complexity and development of communicative repertoires. Journal of Comparative Psychology 116, 166-172. [PDF] Rabin, L., McCowan, B., Hooper, S. and Owings, D. (2003). Anthropogenic noise and its effect on animal communication: An interface between comparative psychology and conservation biology. International Journal of Comparative Psychology 16, 172-192. [PDF] Yin, S. and McCowan, B. (2004) Barking in domestic dogs: context specificity and individual identification. Animal Behaviour 68, 343-355. [PDF] McCowan, B., Doyle, L. R., Jenkins, J. and Hanser, S. F. (2005) The appropriate use of Zipf’s law in animal communication studies. Animal Behaviour, 69, F1-F7. [PDF] |
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