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  1. Cognitive test batteries in animal cognition research: evaluating the past, present and future of comparative psychometrics

    Article • Animal Cognition, October 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Rachael C Shaw

  2. Can you teach an old parrot new tricks? Cognitive development in wild kaka (Nestor meridionalis)

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, June 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Rachael C Shaw

  3. Testing cognition in the wild: factors affecting performance and individual consistency in two measures of avian cognition

    Article • Behavioural Processes, June 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Rachael C Shaw

  4. Potential aposematism in an insular tree species: are signals dishonest early in ontogeny?

    Article • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, March 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Rachael C Shaw, Dr Patrick Hugh Kavanagh

  5. Desire-state attribution: Benefits of a novel paradigm using the food-sharing behavior of Eurasian jays (Garrulus glandarius)

    Article • Communicative & Integrative Biology, January 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Rachael C Shaw

  6. Wild psychometrics: evidence for ‘general’ cognitive performance in wild New Zealand robins, Petroica longipes

    Article • Animal Behaviour, November 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Rachael C Shaw

  7. Nest destruction elicits indiscriminate con‐ versus heterospecific brood parasitism in a captive bird

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, November 2014, Wiley

    Dr Rachael C Shaw

  8. Pilfering Eurasian jays use visual and acoustic information to locate caches

    Article • Animal Cognition, June 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Rachael C Shaw

  9. The evolution of self-control

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, April 2014, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Rachael C Shaw

  10. Can male Eurasian jays disengage from their own current desire to feed the female what she wants?

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, March 2014, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Rachael C Shaw

  11. Thinking with their trunks: elephants use smell but not sound to locate food and exclude nonrewarding alternatives

    Article • Animal Behaviour, February 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Rachael C Shaw

  12. Exclusion in corvids: The performance of food-caching Eurasian jays (Garrulus glandarius).

    Article • Journal of Comparative Psychology, November 2013, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Rachael C Shaw

  13. Evidence suggesting that desire-state attribution may govern food sharing in Eurasian jays

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, February 2013, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Rachael C Shaw

  14. Careful cachers and prying pilferers: Eurasian jays (Garrulus glandarius) limit auditory information available to competitors

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, December 2012, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Rachael C Shaw

  15. Eurasian jays, Garrulus glandarius, flexibly switch caching and pilfering tactics in response to social context

    Article • Animal Behaviour, November 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Rachael C Shaw

  16. Linking nest predation with brood parasitism in captive zebra finches: a multi-pair study

    Article • Journal of Ethology, December 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Rachael C Shaw

  17. Experimental support for the role of nest predation in the evolution of brood parasitism

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Biology, June 2009, Wiley

    Dr Rachael C Shaw

  18. The Strength of Species Recognition in Captive Female Zebra Finches ( Taeniopygia guttata ): A Comparison Across Estrildid Heterospecifics

    Article • Ethology, January 2009, Wiley

    Dr Rachael C Shaw