Publications of Isabelle B. Laumer

Laumer, I. B.; Kansal, S.; van Cauwenberghe, A.; Rahmaeti, T.; Setia, T. M.; Mundry, R.; Haun, D.; Schuppli, C.: Wild and zoo-housed orangutans differ in how they explore objects. Scientific Reports 15 (1), 14853 (2025)

Winkler, S. L.; Laumer, I. B.; Lyn, H.; Cartmill, E. A.: Bonobos tend to behave optimistically after hearing laughter. Scientific Reports 15 (1), 20067 (2025)

Laumer, I. B.; Rahman, A.; Rahmaeti, T.; Azhari, U.; Hermansyah Sri Suci Utami, A.; Schuppli, C.: Active self-treatment of a facial wound with a biologically active plant by a male Sumatran orangutan. Scientific Reports 14 (1), 8932 (2024)

Laumer, I. B.; Winkler, S. L.; Rossano, F.; Cartmill, E. A.: Spontaneous playful teasing in four great ape species. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 291 (2016), 20232345 (2024)

Schuppli, C.; Nellissen, L.; Carvajal, L.; Ashbury, A. M.; Oliver-Caldwell, N.; Rahmaeti, T.; Laumer, I. B.; Haun, D.: Ecological, social, and intrinsic factors affecting wild orangutans' curiosity, assessed using a field experiment. Scientific Reports 13 (1), 13184 (2023)

Laumer, I. B.; Jelbert, S. A.; Taylor, A. H.; Rossler, T.; Auersperg, A. M. I.: Object manufacture based on a memorized template: Goffin's cockatoos attend to different model features. Animal Cognition 24 (3), pp. 457 - 470 (2021)

Laumer, I. B.; Massen, J. J. M.; Boehm, P. M.; Boehm, A.; Geisler, A.; Auersperg, A. M. I.: Individual Goffin ' s cockatoos (Cacatua goffiniana) show flexible targeted helping in a tool transfer task. PLoS One 16 (6), e0253416 (2021)

Laumer, I. B.; Auersperg, A. M. I.; Bugnyar, T.; Call, J.: Orangutans (Pongo abelii) make flexible decisions relative to reward quality and tool functionality in a multi-dimensional tool-use task. PLoS One 14 (2), e0211031 (2019)

Laumer, I. B.; Caii, J.; Bugnyar, T.; Auersperg, A. M. I.: Spontaneous innovation of hook-bending and unbending in orangutans (Pongo abelii). Scientific Reports 8, 16518 (2018)

Laumer, I. B.; Bugnyar, T.; Reber, S. A.; Auersperg, A. M. I.: Can hook-bending be let off the hook? Bending/unbending of pliant tools by cockatoos. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 284 (1862), 20171026 (2017)

Auersperg, A. M. I.; Borasinski, S.; Laumer, I.; Kacelnik, A.: Goffin's cockatoos make the same tool type from different materials. Biology Letters 12 (11), 20160689 (2016)

Laumer, I. B.; Bugnyar, T.; Auersperg, A. M. I.: Flexible decision-making relative to reward quality and tool functionality in Goffin cockatoos (Cacatua goffiniana). Scientific Reports 6, 28380 (2016)

Auersperg, A. M. I.; Laumer, I. B.; Bugnyar, T.: Goffin cockatoos wait for qualitative and quantitative gains but prefer 'better' to 'more'. Biology Letters 9 (3), 20121092 (2013)