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Sarah L. Walsh

The University of Western AustraliaORCID 0000-0002-2984-2311Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Organism:non-human primate· 2 Approach:statistical model· 1

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Amanda R. RidleyiD· 2 shared Stephanie L. MasoniD· 2 shared Stephanie L. KingiD· 1 shared

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Animal Behavior & CognitionbioRxivPreprintJun 25, 2026

Innate building blocks underly socially learned call sequences

Stephanie L. Mason, Sarah L. Walsh, Amanda R. Ridley

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.

DOI 10.64898/2026.06.21.733568

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Animal Behavior & CognitionbioRxivPreprintJun 17, 2026

Socially learned call sequences reveal gradual development of higher-order structure

Stephanie L. Mason, Sarah L. Walsh, Stephanie L. King, Amanda R. Ridley

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

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