Amanda R. Ridley

This study shows that Western Australian magpies comprehend complex call sequences before they can produce them, suggesting rapid learning or innate understanding of sequence meaning.

The paper investigates whether vocal building blocks in magpies are innate or learned, finding no acoustic development over time and supporting innate elements underpinning call sequences.

The paper shows Western Australian magpies use multi-level structured ordering rules in their call sequences, indicating learned syntactic structure.

This study examines how female Western Australian magpies adjust their territorial song in response to anthropogenic noise, finding changes in rate and peak frequency but not amplitude or duration.

The paper conducts meta-analyses of 103 studies to assess support for the Social Intelligence Hypothesis across different metrics, species, and testing conditions, finding consistent support.

The paper compares genetic divergence between two grasswren species, finding strong genetic isolation in a peninsula population despite female dispersal and suggesting a geographic barrier limits gene flow.