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  1. Real-time context-dependent cooperation in parental provisioning reveals fitness payoffs in barn owls

    Article • iScience, October 2025, Elsevier

    Dr James Savage

  2. Familiarity dampens the effect of boldness on coordination in three-spined sticklebacks

    Article • Behaviour, February 2025, Brill

    Riva Riley, Dr James Savage

  3. Clutch Size, but Not Egg Volume, Increases with Rainfall in an Arid-Dwelling Bird

    Article • Integrative and Comparative Biology, June 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr James Savage

  4. Strigops habroptilus Gray, 1845 is the valid scientific name of the kākāpō (Aves, Strigopidae).

    Article • The Bulletin of zoological nomenclature, December 2023, The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature

    Dr James Savage

  5. Familiarity, personality, and foraging performance in three-spined sticklebacks

    Article • Behavioural Processes, August 2022, Elsevier

    Dr James Savage

  6. Low hatching success in the critically endangered kākāpō is driven by early embryo mortality not infertility

    Article • Animal Conservation, October 2021, Wiley

    Dr James Savage

  7. Communal roosting shows dynamics predicted by direct and indirect nepotism in chestnut-crowned babblers

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr James Savage

  8. Editorial: Cooperation and Coordination in the Family

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, December 2020, Frontiers

    Dr James Savage

  9. Low hatching success in the critically endangered kākāpō (Strigops habroptilus) is driven by early embryo mortality not infertility

    Article • September 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr James Savage

  10. What can we learn from antique ornithology?

    Article • Emu - Austral Ornithology, November 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr James Savage

  11. Breeding Phenology and Meteorological Conditions Affect Carer Provisioning Rates and Group-Level Coordination in Cooperative Chestnut-Crowned Babblers

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, November 2019, Frontiers

    Dr James Savage

  12. What Can We Quantify About Carer Behavior?

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, November 2019, Frontiers

    Dr James Savage

  13. 5.1. Data Champion Programme at the University of Cambridge

    Article • October 2019, Open Book Publishers

    Dr James Savage

  14. Engaging Researchers with Data Management

    Article • October 2019, Open Book Publishers

    Dr James Savage

  15. Conditional Cooperation and Turn-Taking in Parental Care

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, October 2019, Frontiers

    Dr James Savage

  16. I. Introduction

    Article • October 2019, Open Book Publishers

    Dr James Savage

  17. Environmental Effects on Parental Care Visitation Patterns in Blue Tits Cyanistes caeruleus

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, September 2019, Frontiers

    Dr James Savage

  18. Time Spent With Parents Varies With Early-Life Condition, but Does Not Predict Survival or Sociality of Juvenile Hihi

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, August 2019, Frontiers

    Dr James Savage

  19. The role of tactile interactions in flight responses in the Bronze Cory catfish ( Corydoras aeneus )

    Article • Ethology, August 2019, Wiley

    Dr James Savage

  20. Establishing, Developing, and Sustaining a Community of Data Champions

    Article • Data Science Journal, January 2019, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

    Dr James Savage

  21. The role of tactile interactions in flight responses in the Bronze Cory catfish(Corydoras aeneus)

    Article • October 2018, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr James Savage

  22. Turn-taking in cooperative offspring care: by-product of individual provisioning behavior or active response rule?

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, October 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr James Savage

  23. Flexibility but no coordination of visits in provisioning riflemen

    Article • Animal Behaviour, March 2017, Elsevier

    Dr James Savage

  24. Context-dependent effects of radio transmitter attachment on a small passerine

    Article • Journal of Avian Biology, February 2017, Wiley

    Dr James Savage

  25. Diversity and function of vocalisations in the cooperatively breeding Chestnut-crowned Babbler

    Article • Emu - Austral Ornithology, September 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr James Savage

  26. Experimental Evidence for Phonemic Contrasts in a Nonhuman Vocal System

    Article • PLoS Biology, June 2015, PLOS

    Dr James Savage

  27. Maternal allocation in cooperative breeders: should mothers match or compensate for expected helper contributions?

    Article • Animal Behaviour, April 2015, Elsevier

    Dr James Savage

  28. Unrelated helpers neither signal contributions nor suffer retribution in chestnut-crowed babblers

    Article • Behavioral Ecology, January 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr James Savage

  29. Intra-group relatedness affects parental and helper investment rules in offspring care

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, July 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr James Savage

  30. Maternal costs in offspring production affect investment rules in joint rearing

    Article • Behavioral Ecology, November 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr James Savage

  31. Carer provisioning rules in an obligate cooperative breeder: prey type, size and delivery rate

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, October 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr DEBORAH JF RUSSELL, Dr James Savage

  32. No evidence for deception over allocation to brood care in a cooperative bird

    Article • Behavioral Ecology, September 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr James Savage

  33. Building genetic networks using relatedness information: a novel approach for the estimation of dispersal and characterization of group structure in social animals

    Article • Molecular Ecology, February 2012, Wiley

    Dr James Savage