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48
Citations
8105
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3199
National Ranking
1541

Overview

Brenda McCowan is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of psychology, with significant contributions in social psychology and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics. The subfields of their work include social psychology, developmental biology, ecology, and studies involving small animals.

Their main research topics encompass primate behavior and ecology, animal behavior and reproduction, animal vocal communication and behavior, wildlife ecology and conservation, animal behavior and welfare studies, marine animal studies overview, and neuroendocrine regulation and behavior.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Brenda McCowan include Brianne A. Beisner, Krishna N. Balasubramaniam, Jessica J. Vandeleest, Eliza Bliss-Moreau, and Stefano Kaburu.

Publications by Brenda McCowan have appeared in several notable venues, including the American Journal of Primatology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), PeerJ, International Journal of Primatology, and Royal Society Open Science.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Brenda McCowan include:

  • Measuring dominance certainty and assessing its impact on individual and societal health in a nonhuman primate model: a network approach (2022, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences)
  • Impact of individual demographic and social factors on human-wildlife interactions: a comparative study of three macaque species (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • A multiplex centrality metric for complex social networks: sex, social status, and family structure predict multiplex centrality in rhesus macaques (2020, PeerJ)
  • Impact of anthropogenic factors on affiliative behaviors among bonnet macaques (2020, American Journal of Physical Anthropology)
  • Addressing the challenges of research on human-wildlife interactions using the concept of Coupled Natural & Human Systems (2021, Biological Conservation)

Best Publications

  • Acoustic monitoring in terrestrial environments using microphone arrays: applications, technological considerations and prospectus

    Daniel T. Blumstein;Daniel J. Mennill;Patrick Clemins;Lewis Girod

  • Cetaceans Have Complex Brains for Complex Cognition

    Lori Marino;Richard C Connor;R. Ewan Fordyce;Louis M Herman

  • Acoustic sequences in non-human animals: a tutorial review and prospectus.

    Arik Kershenbaum;Arik Kershenbaum;Daniel T. Blumstein;Marie A. Roch;Çağlar Akçay

  • Spontaneous vocal mimicry and production by bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus): evidence for vocal learning.

    Diana Reiss;Brenda McCowan

  • Barking in domestic dogs: context specificity and individual identification

    Sophia Yin;Brenda McCowan

  • Linking social and pathogen transmission networks using microbial genetics in giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis)

    Kimberly L. VanderWaal;Kimberly L. VanderWaal;Edward R. Atwill;Lynne. A. Isbell;Brenda McCowan

  • Quantitative tools for comparing animal communication systems: information theory applied to bottlenose dolphin whistle repertoires

    Brenda McCOWAN;Sean F. Hanser;Laurance R. Doyle

  • The fallacy of 'signature whistles' in bottlenose dolphins: a comparative perspective of 'signature information' in animal vocalizations

    Brenda McCowan;Diana Reiss

  • Utility of social network analysis for primate behavioral management and well-being

    Brenda McCowan;Brenda McCowan;Kristen Anderson;Allison Heagarty;Ashley Cameron

  • Whistle contour development in captive-born infant bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus): Role of learning.

    Brenda McCowan;Diana Reiss

  • Quantitative Comparison of Whistle Repertoires from Captive Adult Bottlenose Dolphins (Delphinidae, Tursiops truncatus): a Re‐evaluation of the Signature Whistle Hypothesis

    Brenda McCowan;Brenda McCowan;Diana Reiss;Diana Reiss

  • How can social network analysis contribute to social behavior research in applied ethology

    Maja M. Makagon;Brenda McCowan;Brenda McCowan;Joy A. Mench

  • Risk factors for stereotypic behavior and self-biting in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta): animal's history, current environment, and personality.

    Daniel H. Gottlieb;John P. Capitanio;John P. Capitanio;Brenda McCowan;Brenda McCowan

  • Anthropogenic Noise and its Effect on Animal Communication: An Interface Between Comparative Psychology and Conservation Biology

    Lawrence A. Rabin;Brenda McCowan;Stacie L. Hooper;Donald H. Owings

  • A New Quantitative Technique for Categorizing Whistles Using Simulated Signals and Whistles from Captive Bottlenose Dolphins (Delphinidae, Tursiops truncatus)

    Brenda McCowan

  • Multilevel social organization and space use in reticulated giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis)

    Kimberly L. VanderWaal;Kimberly L. VanderWaal;Hui Wang;Brenda McCowan;Hsieh Fushing

  • Bubble ring play of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus): implications for cognition.

    Brenda McCowan;Lori Marino;Erik Vance;Leah Walke

  • Risk factors and remediation of self-injurious and self-abuse behavior in rhesus macaques

    Ina Rommeck;Kristen Anderson;Allison Heagerty;Ashley Cameron

  • Quantifying microbe transmission networks for wild and domestic ungulates in Kenya

    Kimberly L. VanderWaal;Kimberly L. VanderWaal;Edward R. Atwill;Lynne A. Isbell;Brenda McCowan

  • Vocal learning in captive bottlenose dolphins: A comparison with humans and nonhuman animals.

    Brenda McCowan;Diana Reiss

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward R. Atwill
Edward R. Atwill University of California, Davis
John P. Capitanio
John P. Capitanio University of California, Davis
Jon M. Jenkins
Jon M. Jenkins Ames Research Center
Patrick R. Hof
Patrick R. Hof Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Agustin Fuentes
Agustin Fuentes Princeton University
Karen J. Parker
Karen J. Parker Stanford University
Michael S. Mooring
Michael S. Mooring Point Loma Nazarene University
Sally P. Mendoza
Sally P. Mendoza University of California, Davis
Joy A. Mench
Joy A. Mench University of California, Davis
Frans B. M. de Waal
Frans B. M. de Waal Emory University

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