Prof Peter Slater

Emeritus Professor

Researcher profile

Email

pjbs@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

Bird song learning, especially laboratory studies on its timing and on tutor choice in zebra finches. Song organisation and use in wild birds. The function of duetting.

Selected publications

• Open access

  Vocal learning in animals and humans

  Vernes, S., Janik, V. M., Fitch, W. T. S. & Slater, P. J. B., 25 Oct 2021, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. B, Biological Sciences. 376, 1836, 6 p., 20200234.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Breeding season length predicts duet coordination and consistency in Neotropical wrens (Troglodytidae)

  Keenan, E. L., Odom, K. J., Araya-Salas, M., Horton, K. G., Strimas-Mackey, M., Meatte, M. A., Mann, N. I., Slater, P. J. B., Price, J. J. & Templeton, C. N., 23 Dec 2020, In: Proceedings. Biological sciences. 287, 1941, 9 p., 20202482.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Higher songs of city birds may not be an individual response to noise

  Zollinger, S. A., Slater, P. J. B., Nemeth, E. & Brumm, H., 16 Aug 2017, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 284, 1860, 8 p., 20170602.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Learning and cultural transmission in chaffinch song

  Riebel, K., Lachlan, R. F. & Slater, P. J. B., May 2015, Advances in the Study of Behavior. Naguib, M., Brockmann, H. J., Mitani, J. C., Simmons, L. W., Barrett, L., Healy, S. & Slater, P. J. B. (eds.). Elsevier, Vol. 47. p. 181-227 (Advances in the Study of Behavior; vol. 47).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• An experimental study of duet integration in the happy wren, Pheugopedius felix

  Templeton, C. N., Mann, N. I., Rios-Chelend, A., Quiros-Guerrero, E. & Slater, P. J. B., 2013, In: Animal Behaviour. 86, p. 821-827

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Female happy wrens select songs to cooperate with their mates rather than confront intruders

  Templeton, C. N., Ríos-Chelén, A. A., Quirós-Guerrero, E., Mann, N. I. & Slater, P. J. B., 23 Feb 2013, In: Biology Letters. 9, 1, 20120863.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Song duets function primarily as cooperative displays in pairs of happy wrens

  Templeton, C. N., Rivera-Caceres, K. D., Mann, N. I. & Slater, P. J. B., Dec 2011, In: Animal Behaviour. 82, 6, p. 1399-1407 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Vocal learning

  Slater, P. J. B. & Janik, V. M., 2010, Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior. Breed, M. & Moore, J. (eds.). Elsevier, p. 551-557 7 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• A comparative study of song form and duetting in neotropical Thryothorus wrens

  Mann, N. I., Dingess, K. A., Barker, F. K., Graves, J. A. & Slater, P. J. B., 2009, In: Behaviour. 146, 1, p. 1-43 43 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Bird song as an honest signal of past condition: developmental stress, learning accuracy and vocal amplitude in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata)

  Brumm, H., Zollinger, S. A. & Slater, P. J. B., 2009, In: Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 63, p. 1387-1395

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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