Bastos, A. P. M., Nelson, X. J, Taylor, A. H. (2022) From the lab to the wild: How can captive studies aid the conservation of kea (Nestor notabilis)? Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 45, 101131. DOI: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2022.101131 [link] [pdf]
Bastos, A. P. M., Wood, P. M., Taylor, A. H. (2021) Are parrots naive realists? Kea behave as if the real and virtual worlds are continuous. Biology Letters, 17(9), 20210298. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2021.0298 [link] [altmetric]
Bastos, A. P. M.*, Horváth, K.*, Webb, J., Wood, P. M., & Taylor, A. H. (2021) Self-care tooling innovation in a disabled kea (Nestor notabilis). Scientific Reports, 11, 18035. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-97086-w [link] [pdf] [altmetric] *denotes equal authorship
Bastos, A. P. M., Wood, P. M., Taylor, A. H. (2021) Kea (Nestor notabilis) fail a loose-string connectivity task. Scientific Reports, 11, 15492. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-94879-x [link] [pdf]
Bastos, A. P. M., Neilands, P., Hassall, R., Lim, B. C., Taylor, A. H. (2021) Dogs mentally represent jealousy-inducing social interactions. Psychological Science, 32(5), 646-654. DOI: 10.1177/0956797620979149 [link] [pdf] [altmetric]
Bastos, A. P. M. & Taylor, A. H. (2020) Macphail’s null hypothesis of vertebrate intelligence: Insights from avian cognition. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 1692. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01692 [link] [pdf]
Bastos, A. P. M. & Taylor, A. H. (2020). Kea show three signatures of domain-general statistical inference. Nature Communications, 11, 828. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-14695-1 [link] [pdf] [altmetric]
Neilands, P., Claessens, S., Ren, I., Hassall, R., Bastos, A. P. M., & Taylor, A. H. (2020). Contagious yawning is not a signal of empathy: no evidence of familiarity, gender, or prosociality biases in dogs. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 287, 20192236. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2236 [link] [pdf] [altmetric]
Neilands, P., Hassall, R., Derks, F., Bastos, A. P. M., & Taylor, A. H. (2020). Watching eyes do not stop dogs stealing food: evidence against a general risk-aversion hypothesis for the watching-eye effect. Scientific Reports, 10, 1153. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-58210-4 [link] [pdf]
Bastos, A. P. M. & Taylor, A. H. (2019). Kea (Nestor notabilis) represent object trajectory and identity. Scientific Reports, 9, 19759. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-56380-4 [link] [pdf]
Heaney, M., Bastos, A. P. M., Gray, R. D., & Taylor, A. H. (2019). Are kea prosocial? Ethology, 126(2), 175–183. DOI: 10.1111/eth.12944 [link] [pdf]
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