Publications

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. https://doi/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. https://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. https://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. https://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. https://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