Publications
 
Journal articles

Pfefferle, D., Heistermann, M., Hodges, J. K. & Fischer, J. 2008. Male Barbary macaques eavesdrop on mating outcome: a playback study. Animal Behaviour 75, DOI 10.1016/j.anbehav. 2007.12.003.

Pfefferle, D., Brauch, K., Heistermann, M., Hodges, J. K. & Fischer, J. 2008. Female Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus) copulation calls do not reveal the fertile phase but influence mating outcome. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences 275, 571-578, DOI 10.1098/rspb.2007.1499.

Heistermann, M., Brauch, K., Möhle, U., Pfefferle, D., Dittami, J. & Hodges, K.  2007. Female ovarian cycle phase affects the timing of male sexual activity in free-ranging Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus) of Gibraltar. American Journal of Primatology 70, 44-53, DOI 10.1002/ajp.20455.

Brauch, K., Pfefferle, D., Hodges, J. K., Möhle, U., Fischer, J. & Heistermann, M. 2007. Female sexual behavior and sexual swelling size as potential cues for males to discern the female fertile phase in free-ranging Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus) of Gibraltar. Hormones and Behavior 52, 375-383, DOI 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2007.06.001.

Ey, E., Pfefferle, D. & Fischer, J. 2007. Do age- and sex-related variations reliably reflect body size in non-human primate vocalizations? - a review. Primates 48, 253-267, DOI 10.1007/s10329-006-0033-y.

Pfefferle, D., West, P. M., Grinnell, J., Packer, C. & Fischer, J. 2007. Do acoustic features of lion, Panthera leo, roars reflect sex and male condition? Journal of the Acoustic Society of America 121, 3947-3953, DOI 10.1121/1.2722507.

Pfefferle, D. & Fischer, J. 2006. Sounds and Size – identification of acoustic variables that reflect body size in Hamadryas baboons (Papio hamadryas). Animal Behaviour 72, 43-51, DOI 10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.08.021.


Abstracts (Talks/Poster)

Pfefferle, D., Heistermann, M., Hodges, J. K. & Fischer, J. 2009. The influence of the sexual hormones oestrogen and progesterone on the acostic structure of female Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus) copulation calls. Hanover, the 11th Meeting of the Gesellschaft für Primatologie, 76.

Heistermann, M., Brauch, K., Pfefferle, D., Engelhardt, A., Möhle, U. & Hodges, J.K. 2008. Sex.specific reproductive strategies and paternity outcome in Barbary macaques. Edinburgh, the 22nd Congress of the International Primatological Society. Primate Eye 96, 301, Abstract # 843.

Pfefferle, D., Heistermann, M., Hodges, J. K., Fischer, J. 2007. Information encoding in Barbary macaque copulation calls is salient to male listeners: a playback study. 6th Göttinger Freilandtage, Primate Report Special Issue, 46.

Pfefferle, D., Brauch, K., Heistermann, M., Hodges, J. K., Fischer, J. 2007. Do female copulation calls influence mating outcome? - A study in free ranging Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus). Prague, the 2nd Congress of the European Federation for Primatology, 46.

Pfefferle, D., West, P. M., Grinnell, J., Packer, C. & Fischer, J. 2007. Informational content of lion roars (Panthera leo). Hallifax, the 30th International Ethological Conference, 164 & 241.

Pfefferle, D., Ey, E. & Fischer, J. 2006. Age- and sex-related variations as cues for body size in sound production, Leipzig, the 10th Congress of the German Primate Society, Primate Report, 73-1.

Pfefferle, D., Brauch, K., Heistermann, M., Hodges, J. K. & Fischer, J. 2006. On the influence of sexual hormones on acoustic structures of female Barbary Macaques (Macaca sylvanus) copulation calls. Entebbe, the 21st Congress of the International Primatological Society. International Journal of Primatology 27, Abstract #579.

Pfefferle, D., Brauch, K., Heistermann, M., Hodges, J. K. & Fischer, J. 2005. Acoustic features as indicators of the fertile phase? A study in free ranging Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus), Budapest, the 29th International Ethological Conference, 173.

Brauch, K., Pfefferle, D., Heistermann, M., Fischer, J. & Hodges, J. K. 2005. Does female sexual behavior indicate the fertile phase in Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus)? Göttingen, the 1st Congress of the European Federation for Primatology and the 9th Tagung der Gesellschaft für Primatologie, Primate Report 72, 20.

Pfefferle, D., Brauch, K., Heistermann, M., Hodges, J. K. & Fischer, J. 2005. Copulation calls as reliable indicators of reproductive state? A study in free ranging Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus), Göttingen, the 1st Congress of the European Federation for Primatology and the 9th Tagung der Gesellschaft für Primatologie, Primate Report 72, 75.

Pfefferle, D. & Call, J. 2003. Simple discrimination in the great apes, Leipzig, the 8th Congress of the German Primate Society. Folia Primatologica 74, 211.

Pfefferle, D. & Fischer, J. 2003. Sound and size - identification of variables that reflect body size in Hamadryas baboons, Leipzig, the 8th Congress of the German Primate Society. Folia Primatologica 74, 212.