Simon William Townsend
Research interests
CV
Publications
Research interests
Animal vocal communication; acoustics; language evolution; social cognition; comparative psychology; animal behaviour; evolutionary anthropology; hormones; statistics
CV
Education and professional positions
| 2008 - present | Post-doctoral researcher (Meerkat vocal communication and cognition), Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2005 - 2008 | PhD (Wild chimpanzee vocal communication and social cognition), Department of Psychology, University of St. Andrews, UK |
| 2002 - 2005 | BA (Hons.) Biological Sciences, University of Oxford, UK |
Publications
Karp, D., Manser, M.B., Wiley, E. & Townsend, S.W. Nonlinearities in meerkat alarm calls prevent receivers from habituating (Submitted)
Townsend, S.W., Allen, C., Manser, M. (2012) A simple test of vocal individual recognition in wild meerkats. Biology Letters: epub doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.0844.
Townsend, S.W., Zöttl, M. & Manser, M.B. (2011) All clear? Meerkats attend to contextual information in close calls to coordinate vigilance. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology, doi: 10.1007/s00265-011-1202-6
Townsend, S.W. & Manser M.B. (2011) The function of non-linear phenomena in meerkat alarm calls. Biology Letters 7: 47-49
Townsend, S.W., Hollen, L.I., Manser, M.B. (2010) Meerkat close calls encode group-specific signatures but receivers fail to discriminate. Animal Behaviour 80: 133-138.
Slocombe, K.E., Kaller, T., Turman, L., Townsend, S.W., Papworth, S., Squibbs P, Zuberbühler, K. (2010) Production of food-associated calls in wild chimpanzees is dependent on the composition of the audience. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 64: 1959-1966.
Townsend, S.W., Deschner, T., Zuberbühler, K. (2008) Female chimpanzees use copulation calls flexibly to prevent social competition. PLoS ONE 3(6): e2431. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002431
Townsend, S.W., Slocombe, K.E., Emery-Thompson, M., Zuberbühler, K. (2007) Female-led infanticide in wild chimpanzees. Current Biology 17: R355-R356.
