Publications

Bhattacharjee, D., Zijlstra, T. W., Roth, T. S., Belli, E., Calis, S., Escriche Chova, P., Cousin, E., de Jong, J. A., de Laat, E. J. A. M., Guðjónsdóttir, A. R., Janmaat, K. R. L., Jeunink, E. J., Kluiver, C. E., Kuijer, P. E. N., Middelburg, E., Pflüger, L. S., Schroderus, V. I., van Dijk, E. S. J., Verspeek, J., … Massen, J. J. M. (2026). Despotism promotes dyadic cooperation through enhanced interdependencies in non-human primate societies. Nature Communications, 17(1), 3513. doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-71168-7

Bhattacharjee, D., van Dijk, E. S. J., de Vries, R. E. M., Kluiver, C. E., Valomy, M., Zeeman, A. N., & Massen, J. J. M. (2026). Many facets of self-directed behaviours in macaques. Royal Society Open Science, 13(4), 252422. doi.org/10.1098/rsos.252422

Moor, D. D., Skelton, M., Amici, F., Arlet, M. E., Balasubramaniam, K. N., Ballesta, S., Berghänel, A., Berman, C. M., Bernstein, S. K., Bhattacharjee, D., Bliss-Moreau, E., Brotcorne, F., Butovskaya, M., Campbell, L. A. D., Carosi, M., Chatterjee, M., Cooper, M. A., Cowl, V. B., O, C. D. la, … Brent, L. J. N. (2025). MacaqueNet: Advancing comparative behavioural research through large-scale collaboration. Journal of Animal Ecology, 94(4), 519–534. doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.14223

Pink, K. E., Fischer, B., Huffmann, M.A., Miyabe-Nishiwaki, T., Hashimoto, N., Kaneko, A., Wallner, B., & Pflüger, L. S. (2024). No birth-associated maternal mortality in Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) despite giving birth to large-headed neonates. PNAS. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2316189121

Böhm, P. M., Pflüger, L. S., Pink, K. E., Huffman, M. A., & Wallner, B. (2024). Intense Body Contact Increases Homosexual Pair Bond Stability in Female Japanese Macaques (Macaca fuscata). Archives of Sexual Behavior, 53(5), 1653–1665. doi.org/10.1007/s10508-023-02781-6

Bhattacharjee, D., Guðjónsdóttir, A. R., Chova, P. E., Middelburg, E., Jäckels, J., de Groot, N. G., Wallner, B., Massen, J. J. M., & Pflüger, L. S. (2024). Behavioral, physiological, and genetic drivers of coping in a non-human primate. iScience, 27(2), 108890. doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.108890

Garcia, J. O. P., Ostner, J., Schülke, O., Kaburu, S., Majolo, B., Maréchal, L., José-Domínguez, J. M., Gazagne, E., Ruppert, N., Micheletta, J., Beltrán-Frances, V., Castellano-Navarro, A., Gupta, S., Bourjade, M., Massen, J., Böhm, P., Pflüger, L., Duran, E., Hobaiter, C., & Monteiro, A. (2023). Ecological functions drive variation in external eye appearance across macaques [Preprint]. Preprints. doi.org/10.22541/au.169807565.50738289/v1

Bhattacharjee, D., Cousin, E., Pflüger, L. S., & Massen, J. J. M. (2023). Prosociality in a despotic society. iScience, 26(5), 106587. doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.106587

Hammer, R., Stribos, M. S., Boehm, P. M., Pink, K. E., Herzele, J., Wallner, B., Huffman, M. A., Massen, J. J. M., & Pflüger, L. S. (2023). A novel methodological approach for group classification during fission of a semi-free-ranging group of Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata). American Journal of Primatology, 85(2), e23463. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23463

Mirka, B., Stow, D. A., Paulus, G., Loerch, A. C., Coulter, L. L., An, L., Lewison, R. L., & Pflüger, L. S. (2022). Evaluation of thermal infrared imaging from uninhabited aerial vehicles for arboreal wildlife surveillance. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 194(7), 512. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-022-10152-2

Pflüger, L. S., Pink, K. E., Wallner, B., Radler, C., Dorner, M., & Huffman, M. A. (2021). Twenty-three-year demographic history of the Affenberg Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata), a translocated semi-free-ranging group in southern Austria. Primates, 62(5), 761–776. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-021-00928-4

Sigmundson, R., Stribos, M. S., Hammer, R., Herzele, J., Pflüger, L. S., & Massen, J. J. M. (2021). Exploring the Cognitive Capacities of Japanese Macaques in a Cooperation Game. Animals, 11(6), 1497. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11061497

Wallner, B., Windhager, S., Schaschl, H., Nemeth, M., Pflüger, L. S., Fieder, M., Domjanić, J., Millesi, E., & Seidler, H. (2019). Sexual Attractiveness: A Comparative Approach to Morphological, Behavioral and Neurophysiological Aspects of Sexual Signaling in Women and Nonhuman Primate Females. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 5(2), 164–186. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40750-019-00111-6

Pflüger, L. S., Pink, K. E., Böck, A., Huffman, M. A., & Wallner, B. (2019). On the sunny side of (new) life: Effect of sunshine duration on age at first reproduction in Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata). American Journal of Primatology, 81(7), e23019. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23019

Pflüger, L. S., Gutleb, D. R., Hofer, M., Fieder, M., Wallner, B., & Steinborn, R. (2016). Allelic variation of the COMT gene in a despotic primate society: A haplotype is related to cortisol excretion in Macaca fuscata. Hormones and Behavior, 78, 220–230. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2015.11.012

Pflüger, L. S., Valuch, C., Gutleb, D. R., Ansorge, U., & Wallner, B. (2014). Colour and contrast of female faces: Attraction of attention and its dependence on male hormone status in Macaca fuscata. Animal Behaviour, 94, 61–71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.05.022

Gutleb, V. D. R., Pflüger, L. S., & Wallner, B. (2014). Semi-freie und wilde Japanmakaken—Eine Meta-Analyse. Carinthia II, 204/124, 433–442.

Wallner, B., Aspernig, D., Millesi, E., & Machatschke, I. H. (2011). Non-lactating versus lactating females: A comparison of sex steroids, sexual coloration, and sexual behavior in Japanese macaques. Primates, 52(1), 69–75. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-010-0221-7