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Publications
2024
Verger, M.-O. , Devillebichot, M., Ringler, E., Szabo, B. (2024). Sex-specific discrimination of familiar and unfamiliar mates in the Tokay gecko. Animal Cognition, 27 (1), 55. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-024-01896-0 (open access)
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Szabo*, B., Damas-Moreira*, I., Drosopoulos, G., Stober, C., Lisičić, D., & Caspers, B. A. (2024). Smarter in the city? Lizards from urban and semi-natural habitats do not differ in a cognitive task in two syntopic species. Current Zoology, zoae010. [* shared first authorship] doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoae010
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Szabo, B. (2024). Changes in enclosure use and basking behaviour associated with pair housing in Tokay geckos (Gekko gecko). Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 106179. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applanim.2024.106179 (open access)
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Szabo, B., Holmes, M. L., Ashton, B. J., & Whiting, M. J. (2024). Spontaneous quantity discrimination in the Australian sleepy lizard (Tiliqua rugosa). Behavioral Ecology, 35(1), arad089. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arad089
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Bégué, L., Tschirren, N., Peignier, M., Szabo, B., & Ringler, E. (2024). Behavioural consistency across metamorphosis in a neotropical poison frog. Evolutionary Ecology, 38 (1), 157-174. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10682-023-10274-0 (open access)
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2023
Probst, A., Ringler, E., & Szabo, B. (2023). Prey size preference in the tokay gecko (Gekko gecko). Behaviour, 161(1), 71-87. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/1568539X-bja10251 (open access)
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Peignier, M., Begue, L., Ringler, M., Szabo, B., & Ringler, E. (2023). Regardless of personality, males show similar levels of plasticity in territory defense in a Neotropical poison frog. Scientific Reports, 13, 3435. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-30546-7 (open access)
Szabo, B., & Ringler, E. (2023). Geckos differentiate self from other using both skin and faecal chemicals: evidence towards self-recognition? Animal Cognition, 23, 1011-1019. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-023-01751-8 (open access)
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Szabo, B., & Ringler, E. (2023). Fear of the new? Geckos hesitate to attack novel prey, feed near objects and enter a novel space. Animal Cognition, 26, 537-549. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-022-01693-7 (open access)
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2022
Greis, L. M., Ringler. E., Whiting, M. J., & Szabo, B. (2022). Lizards lack speed-accuracy trade-offs in a quantitative foraging task when unable to sample the reward. Behavioural Processes, 202, 104749. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2022.104749 (open access)
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Szabo, B., Valencia-Aguilar, A., Damas-Moreira, I., & Ringler, E. (2022). Wild cognition - linking form and function of cognitive abilities within a natural context. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 44, 101115. doi:10.1016/j.cobeha.2022.101115 (open access)
Szabo, B., & Whiting, M. J. (2022). A new protocol for investigating visual two-choice discrimination learning in lizards. Animal Cognition. doi:10.1007/s10071-022-01603-x (open access)
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2021
Szabo, B., Mangione, R., Rath, M., Pašukonis, A., Reber, S. A., Oh, J., Ringler, M., & Ringler, E. (2021). Naïve Poison Frog tadpoles use bi-modal cues to avoid insect predators but not heterospecific predatroy tadpoles. Journal of experimental Biology, 224(24), jeb243647. doi:10.1242/jeb.243647 (open access)
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Szabo, B., Noble, D. W. A., McCloghry, K. J., Monteiro, M. E. S., & Whiting, M. J. (2021). Spontaneous quantity discrimination in a family-living lizard. Behavioral Ecology, 32(4), 686-694. doi:10.1093/beheco/arab019
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Szabo, B., Noble, D. W. A., & Whiting, M. J. (2021). Learning simple and compound stimuli in a social lizard (Egernia stokesii). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 135(2), 208-218.
doi:10.1037/com0000260
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Szabo, B., Noble, D. W. A., Whiting, M. J. (2021). Learning in non-avian reptiles 40 years on: advances and promising new directions. Biological Reviews, 96, 331-356. doi:10.1111/brv.12658 Preprint
2020
Szabo, B., Hoefer, S., Whiting, M. J. (2020). Are lizards capable of inhibitory control? Performance on a semi-transparent version of the cylinder task in five species of Australian skinks. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 74, 118. doi:10.1007/s00265-020-02897-y (open access)
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Szabo, B., Damas-Moreira, I., Whiting, M. J. (2020). Can cognitive ability give invasive species the means to succeed? A review of the evidence. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 8, 187.
doi:10.3389/fevo.2020.001873 (open access)
Szabo, B., Whiting, M. J. (2020). Do lizards have enhanced inhibition? A test in two species differing in ecology and sociobiology. Behavioural Processes, 172, 104043.
doi:10.1016/j.beproc.2020.104043
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Morales Picard, A., Mundry, R., Auersperg, A. M., Boeving, E. R., Boucherie, P. H., Bugnyar, T., Dufour, V., Emery, N. J., Federspiel, I. G., Gajdon, G. K., Guéry, J.-P., Hegedič, M., Horn, L., Kavanagh, E., Lambert, M. L., Massen, J. J. M., Rodrigues, M. A., Schiestl, M., Schwing, R., Szabo, B., Taylor, A. H., van Horik, J. O., von Bayern, A. M. P., Seed, A., Slocombe1, K. E. (2020). Why preen others? Predictors of allopreening in parrots and corvids and comparisons to grooming in great apes. Ethology, 126, 207-228.
doi:10.1111/eth.12999
2019
Szabo, B., Noble, D. W. A., Byrne, R. W., Tait, D. S., Whiting, M. J. (2019). Precocial juvenile lizards show adult-level learning and behavioural flexibility. Animal Behaviour, 154, 75-84. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.06.003
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Szabo, B., Whiting, M. J., Noble, D. W. A. (2019). Sex-dependent discrimination learning in lizards: a meta-analysis. Behavioural Processes, 164, 10-16.
doi:10.1016/j.beproc.2019.04.002
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Szabo, B., Noble, D. W. A., Whiting, M. J. (2019). Context-specific response inhibition and differential impact of a learning bias in a lizard. Animal Cognition, 22(3), 317-319.
doi:10.1007/s10071-019-01245-6
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2018
Szabo, B., Noble, D. W. A., Byrne, R. W., Tait, D. S., Whiting, M. J. (2018). Sub-problem learning and reversal of a multidimensional visual cue in a lizard: Evidence for Behavioural felxibility? Animal Behaviour, 144, 17-26.
doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2018.07.018
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2017
Szabo, B., Bugnyar, T., Auersperg, A. M. I. (2017). Within-group relationships and lack of social enhancement during object manipulation in captive Goffin’s cockatoos (Cacatua goffini). Learning & Behavior, 45, 7-19.
doi:10.3758/s13420-016-0235-0
2014
Auersperg*, A. M. I., Szabo*, B., von Bayern, A. M. P., & Bugnyar, T. (2014). Object Permanence in the Goffin Cockatoo (Cacatua goffini). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 128(1), 88-98. [* shared first authorship]
doi:10.1037/a0033272
2012
Auersperg, A. M. I., Szabo, B., von Bayern, A. M. P., & Kacelnik, A. (2012). Spontaneous innovation in tool manufacture and use in a Goffin’s cockatoo. Current Biology, 22(21), 903-904.
doi:10.1016/j.cub.2012.09.002
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