PhD project embedded in Project 5: The Evolution of Language: an Integrative Approach

Topic of PhD thesis:

Social mongoose vocal communication: insights into the emergence of linguistic combinatoriality

Publications:

Collier K, Radford AN, Stoll S, Watson SK, Manser MB, Bickel B, Townsend SW (2020).

Dwarf mongoose alarm calls: investigating a complex non-human animal call (https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.2514)

Proceedings of the Royal Society B, September 2020

Collier K, Townsend SW, Manser MB (2017).

Call concatenation in wild meerkats (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.12.014)

Animal Behaviour, December 2017

Collier K, Radford AN, Townsend SW, Manser MB (2017).

Wild dwarf mongooses produce general alert and predator-specific alarm calls ( https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arx091)

Behavioral Ecology, September 2017, Pages 1293–1301

Collier K, Bickel B, van Schaik C, Manser MB, Townsend SW (2014).

Language evolution: Syntax before phonology? (https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.0263)

Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Biological Sciences, June 2014