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Carel ten Cate is affiliated with Leiden University in the Netherlands, specializing in research spanning agricultural and biological sciences, biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, and psychology. Their work primarily focuses on ecological, developmental, and social aspects within these disciplines.

The scientist's research covers key subfields such as ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, developmental biology, and developmental and educational psychology. Their academic contributions extend into studies of animal vocal communication and behavior, animal behavior and reproduction, marine animal studies, and avian ecology, among other topics related to both animals and plants as well as education in these areas.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Animal Behaviour
  • Applied Animal Behaviour Science
  • Animal Cognition
  • Animal Sentience

Frequent co-authors with whom Carel ten Cate has collaborated are:

  • Zhi-Yuan Ning
  • Henkjan Honing
  • Buddhamas Kriengwatana
  • Jiani Chen
  • Fabian Heim

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Carel ten Cate include:

  • Re-evaluating vocal production learning in non-oscine birds, 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Vocal imitations and production learning by Australian musk ducks ( Biziura lobata ), 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • The multi-dimensional nature of vocal learning, 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Rhythmic abilities in humans and non-human animals: a review and recommendations from a methodological perspective, 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Music for animal welfare: A critical review & conceptual framework, 2022, Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Best Publications

  • The impact of learning on sexual selection and speciation.

    Machteld N. Verzijden;Carel ten Cate;Maria R. Servedio;Genevieve M. Kozak

  • Low-frequency songs lose their potency in noisy urban conditions

    Wouter Halfwerk;Sander Bot;Jasper Buikx;Marco van der Velde

  • Without it no music: cognition, biology and evolution of musicality

    Henkjan Honing;Carel ten Cate;Isabelle Peretz;Sandra E. Trehub

  • Revisiting the syntactic abilities of non-human animals: natural vocalizations and artificial grammar learning

    Carel ten Cate;Kazuo Okanoya

  • Early learning influences species assortative mating preferences in Lake Victoria cichlid fish.

    Machteld N Verzijden;Carel ten Cate

  • Biases in signal evolution: learning makes a difference.

    Carel ten Cate;Candy Rowe

  • Budgerigars and zebra finches differ in how they generalize in an artificial grammar learning experiment

    Michelle J. Spierings;Carel ten Cate

  • Accuracy of song syntax learning and singing consistency signal early condition in zebra finches

    Marie-Jeanne Holveck;Ana Catarina Vieira de Castro;Robert F. Lachlan;Robert F. Lachlan;Carel ten Cate

  • Forelimb-hindlimb developmental timing changes across tetrapod phylogeny

    Olaf R.P. Bininda-Emonds;Olaf R.P. Bininda-Emonds;Jonathan E. Jeffery;Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra;James Hanken

  • Searching for the origins of musicality across species.

    Marisa Hoeschele;Hugo Merchant;Yukiko Kikuchi;Yuko Hattori

  • The Development of Mate Choice in Zebra Finch Females

    Carel ten Cate;Gerry Mug

  • Birdsong and male—male competition: Causes and consequences of vocal variability in the collared dove (Streptopelia decaocto)

    Carel Ten Cate;Hans Slabbekoorn;Mechteld R. Ballintijn

  • Sexual imprinting can induce sexual preferences for exaggerated parental traits.

    Carel ten Cate;Machteld N. Verzijden;Eric Etman

  • Sounds of male Lake Victoria cichlids vary within and between species and affect female mate preferences

    Machteld N. Verzijden;Machteld N. Verzijden;Jasper van Heusden;Niels Bouton;Niels Bouton;Frans Witte

  • SEXUAL SELECTION: THE EVOLUTION OF CONSPICUOUS CHARACTERISTICS IN BIRDS BY MEANS OF IMPRINTING.

    Carel ten Cate;Patrick Bateson

  • Song learning from playback in zebra finches: is there an effect of operant contingency?

    Art B. Houx;Carel Ten Cate

  • ON SEX-DIFFERENCES IN SEXUAL IMPRINTING

    Carel Ten Cate

  • The Influence of Social Relations On the Development of Species Recognition in Zebra Finch Males

    Carel Ten Cate

  • Females learn from mothers and males learn from others. The effect of mother and siblings on the development of female mate preferences and male aggression biases in Lake Victoria cichlids, genus Mbipia

    Machteld N. Verzijden;Machteld N. Verzijden;R. E. Madeleine Korthof;Carel ten Cate

  • LEARNING AND COLONIZATION OF NEW NICHES: A FIRST STEP TOWARD SPECIATION

    Joost B. Beltman;Patsy Haccou;Carel ten Cate

Frequent Co-Authors

Henkjan Honing
Henkjan Honing University of Amsterdam
Patrick Bateson
Patrick Bateson University of Cambridge
Jean Vroomen
Jean Vroomen Tilburg University
Johan J. Bolhuis
Johan J. Bolhuis University of Cambridge
Giorgio Vallortigara
Giorgio Vallortigara University of Trento
Isabelle Peretz
Isabelle Peretz University of Montreal
Dale H. Clayton
Dale H. Clayton University of Utah
Sandra E. Trehub
Sandra E. Trehub University of Toronto
Ludwig Huber
Ludwig Huber University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Kazuo Okanoya
Kazuo Okanoya University of Tokyo

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