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364

Overview

Susan D. Healy is affiliated with the University of St Andrews in the United Kingdom. Their research concentrates on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with extensive work in related subfields such as ecology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, developmental biology, social psychology, and ecological modeling.

The scientist has contributed significantly to topics including animal behavior and reproduction, avian ecology and behavior, wildlife ecology and conservation, animal vocal communication and behavior, primate behavior and ecology, species distribution and climate change, and plant and animal studies.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Behavioral Ecology
  • Frontiers in Veterinary Science

Prominent recent papers authored by or involving Susan D. Healy include:

  • Learning and Animal Movement, 2021, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Ecology and allometry predict the evolution of avian developmental durations, 2020, Nature Communications
  • It's not all about temperature: breeding success also affects nest design, 2020, Behavioral Ecology
  • Juvenile socio-ecological environment shapes material technology in nest-building birds, 2020, Behavioral Ecology
  • Not by transmission alone: the role of invention in cultural evolution, 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

They have collaborated frequently with Sally E. Street, Catherine Sheard, Maria C. Tello-Ramos, Kevin N. Laland, and Shoko Sugasawa, reflecting a range of partnerships within their scientific domain.

Best Publications

  • Hippocampal specialization of food-storing birds

    J R Krebs;D F Sherry;S D Healy;V H Perry

  • A critique of comparative studies of brain size

    Susan D Healy;Candy Rowe

  • Relations between Song Repertoire Size and the Volume of Brain Nuclei Related to Song: Comparative Evolutionary Analyses amongst Oscine Birds

    Timothy J. Devoogd;John Richard Krebs;Susan D. Healy;Andy Purvis

  • The evolution of sex differences in spatial ability.

    Catherine M. Jones;Victoria A. Braithwaite;Susan D. Healy

  • Measuring variation in cognition

    Candy Rowe;Susan D. Healy

  • Cognition and personality: an analysis of an emerging field

    Andrea S. Griffin;Lauren M. Guillette;Susan D. Healy

  • Comparative evaluation and its implications for mate choice.

    Melissa Bateson;Susan D. Healy

  • Context-dependent foraging decisions in rufous hummingbirds

    M. Bateson;S. D. Healy;T. A. Hurly

  • Food Storing and the Hippocampus in Corvids Amount and Volume are Correlated

    Susan D. Healy;John Richard Krebs

  • Irrational choices in hummingbird foraging behaviour

    Melissa Bateson;Susan D. Healy;T.Andrew Hurly

  • A larger hippocampus is associated with longer-lasting spatial memory.

    Robert Biegler;Anthony McGregor;John R. Krebs;Susan D. Healy

  • Food storing and the hippocampus in Paridae.

    Susan D. Healy;John R. Krebs

  • Hippocampal volume in migratory and non-migratory warblers: effects of age and experience

    S. D. Healy;Eberhard Gwinner;J. R. Krebs

  • Spatial working memory in rats: no differences between the sexes

    Susan D Healy;Susan D Healy;Susanna R Braham;Victoria A Braithwaite

  • The hippocampus, spatial memory and food hoarding: a puzzle revisited.

    Susan D. Healy;Selvino R. de Kort;Nicola S. Clayton

  • Memory for flowers in rufous hummingbirds: location or local visual cues?

    Andrew T. Hurly;Susan D. Healy

  • Spatial memory of paridae: comparison of a storing and a non-storing species, the coal tit, Parus ater, and the great tit, P. major

    John R. Krebs;Susan D. Healy;Sara J. Shettleworth

  • Why study cognition in the wild (and how to test it)

    David James Pritchard;T. Andrew Hurly;Maria Cristina Tello-Ramos;Susan Denise Healy

  • Spatial ability is impaired and hippocampal mineralocorticoid receptor mRNA expression reduced in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) selected for acute high corticosterone response to stress

    Zoë G Hodgson;Simone L Meddle;Mark L Roberts;Mark L Roberts;Katherine L Buchanan

  • Spatial memory in rufous hummingbirds (Selasphorus rufus): A field test

    S. D. Healy;T. A. Hurly

  • Cognitive ecology: a field of substance?

    Sue Healy;Victoria Braithwaite

  • Vocal mimicry in songbirds

    Laura A. Kelley;Rebecca L. Coe;Joah R. Madden;Susan D. Healy

  • Physical cognition: birds learn the structural efficacy of nest material

    Ida Elizabeth Bailey;Kate Morgan;Marion Bertin;Simone L. Meddle

  • Advances in the Study of Behaviour

    M. Naguib;J.C. Mitani;L.W. Simmons;L.W. Barrett

Frequent Co-Authors

Melissa Bateson
Melissa Bateson Newcastle University
Nicola S. Clayton
Nicola S. Clayton University of Cambridge
Richard B. D’Eath
Richard B. D’Eath Scotland's Rural College
Sara J. Shettleworth
Sara J. Shettleworth University of Toronto
Alistair Lawrence
Alistair Lawrence Scotland's Rural College
Onur Güntürkün
Onur Güntürkün Ruhr University Bochum
Thomas Bugnyar
Thomas Bugnyar University of Vienna
Marie J. Haskell
Marie J. Haskell Scotland's Rural College
Mylene M. Mariette
Mylene M. Mariette Deakin University
Eberhard Gwinner
Eberhard Gwinner Max Planck Society

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