van Berkel, M., Evans, C., Thornton, A. & Kelley, L. A. (in press) Males maximise luminance and contrast of their display arenas irrespective of local light conditions in great bowerbirds Chlamydera nuchalis. Emu
Evans, C. & Kelley, L. A. (in press) Great bowerbird males upregulate multiple sexual signals following bower wall removal. Animal Behaviour
Rémy, C. M. I., Zikos, C., Kelley*, L. A. & Boogert*, N. J. (2025) Herring gulls respond to the acoustic properties of men’s voices. Biology Letters, 211, 11 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0394 (*contributed equally)
Bullough, K. Kuijper, B. & Kelley, L. A. (2025) Comparative evaluation over time during mate choice in the green swordtail Xiphophorus hellerii. Behavioral Ecology, 36(5), araf108. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/araf108
Green, P. A., Kelley, L. A. & Caves, E. M. (2025) The effects of proportional processing and multiple opponents on contest assessment in male green swordtail fish (Xiphophorus hellerii) Integrative and Comparative Biology, icaf084 https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icaf084
Caves, E. M. & Kelley, L. A. (2025) The perceptual effects of signal components: black sword margins are crucial for signal size discrimination in green swordtails Xiphophorus hellerii. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 292: 20242137 http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.2137
Inzani, E. L., Kelley, L. A., Thomas, R. & Boogert, N. J. (2024) Early-life diet does not affect preference for fish in herring gulls (Larus argentatus). PeerJ, 12:e17565 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17565
van Berkel, M., Thornton, A. & Kelley, L. A. (2024) The effect of building ability and object availability on the construction of bower courts in great bowerbirds. Animal Behaviour, 209, 203-214 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347223002920
Caves, E. M., Fernández-Juricic, E. & Kelley, L. A. (2024). Ecological and morphological correlates of visual acuity in birds. Journal of Experimental Biology, 227, jeb246063 https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.246063
Kelley, J. L., Jessop, A-L., Kelley, L. A. & Troscianko, J. (2023) The role of pictorial cues and contrast for camouflage. Evolutionary Ecology, 37, 909-925 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10682-023-10267-z
Bullough, K., Kuijper, B., Caves, E. M. & Kelley, L. A. (2023) Weber’s Law. Current Biology, 33, R992-3 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.07.016
Caves, E. M. & Kelley, L. A. (2023) Proportional processing of a visual mate choice signal in the green swordtail, Xiphophorus hellerii. Ecology Letters, 26, 575-585 http://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14179
Firkins, J. M. E. & Kelley, L. A. (2022) Does shading on great argus Argusianus argus feathers create a three dimensional illusion? Biology Letters, 18, 20220393 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2022.0393
Inzani, E. L., Kelley, L. A. & Boogert, N. J. (2022) Object neophilia in wild herring gulls in urban and rural locations. Journal of Avian Biology, e03028 https://doi.org/10.1111/jav.03028
Kelley, J.L., Kelley, L. A. & Badcock, D. R. (2022) 3D animal camouflage. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 37, 628-631 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2022.04.001
Goumas, M., Boogert, N.J., Kelley, L.A. & Holding, T. (2022) Predator or provider? How wild animals respond to mixed messages from humans. Royal Society Open Science, 9, 211742 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.211742
Caves, E. M., de Busserolles, F. & Kelley, L. A. (2021) Sex differences in behavioural and anatomical estimates of visual acuity in the green swordtail Xiphophorus hellerii. Journal of Experimental Biology, 224, jeb243420 https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.243420
Hughes, A. E., Griffiths, D., Troscianko, J. & Kelley, L. A. (2021) The evolution of patterning during movement in a large-scale citizen science game. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 288, 20202823 https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.2823
Goumas, M., Lee, V. E., Boogert*, N. J., Kelley*, L. A. & Thornton*, A. (2020) The role of cognition in human-wildlife interactions. Frontiers in Psychology. 11, 589978. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.589978 (*contributed equally)
Goumas, M., Collins, T. R., Fordham, L., Kelley, L. A., & Boogert, N. J. (2020) Herring gull aversion to gaze in urban and rural human settlements. Animal Behaviour, 168, 83-88. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.08.008
Caves, E. M., Troscianko*, J. & Kelley,* L. A. (2020) A customizable, low-cost optomotor apparatus: a powerful tool for behaviourally measuring visual capability. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 11, 1319-1324. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13449 (*contributed equally)
Galloway, J. A. M., Green, S. D., Stevens, M. & Kelley, L. A. (2020) Finding a hidden signal among noise: how can predators overcome camouflage strategies? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 375, 20190478. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0478
Goumas, M., Boogert, N. J. & Kelley, L. A. (2020) Urban herring gulls use human behavioural cues to locate food. Royal Society Open Science, 7, 191959. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.191959
Goumas, M., Burns, I, Kelley, L. A. & Boogert, N. J. (2019) Herring gulls respond to human gaze direction. Biology Letters, 15, 20190405. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0405
Kelley, L. A. & Clayton, N. S. (2017) California scrub-jays reduce visual cues available to potential pilferers by matching food colour to caching substrate. Biology Letters, 13, 20170242 http://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2017.0242
Kelley, L. A. (2017) Bowerbirds. In Encyclopaedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. Vonk, J. & Shackelford, T. (Eds), Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55065-7_891
Kelley, L. A. & Endler, J. A. (2017) How do great bowerbirds create forced perspective illusions? Royal Society Open Science, 4, 160661 http://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160661
Endler, J. A., Gaburro, J. & Kelley, L. A. (2014) Visual effects in great bowerbird sexual displays and their implications for signal design. Proceedings of the Royal Society B,
281, 20140235 http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.0235
Kelley, L. A. & Kelley, J. L. (2014) Perceptual biases and animal illusions: a response to comments on Kelley and Kelley. Behavioral Ecology, 25, 468-469. http://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/aru040
Kelley, L. A. & Kelley, J. L. (2014) Animal visual illusion and confusion: the importance of a perceptual perspective. Behavioral Ecology, 25, 450-463. http://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/art118
Kelley, L. A. & Endler, J. A. (2012) Male great bowerbirds create forced perspective illusions with consistently different individual quality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109, 20980-20985. http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1208350109
Kelley, L. A. & Healy, S. D. (2012) Vocal mimicry in spotted bowerbirds is associated with an alarming context. Journal of Avian Biology, 43, 525-530. http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-048X.2012.05863.x
Endler, J. A., Mielke, P. W. Jr & Kelley, L. A. (2012) Response to comment on “Illusions promote mating success in great bowerbirds.” Science, 337, 292. http://doi.org/10.1126/science.1221690
Kelley, L. A. & Endler, J. A. (2012) Illusions promote mating success in great bowerbirds. Science, 335, 335-338. http://doi.org/10.1126/science.1212443
Kelley, L. A. & Healy, S. D. (2011) The mimetic repertoire of the spotted bowerbird Ptilonorhychus maculatus. Naturwissenschaften, 98, 501-507. http://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-011-0794-z
Kelley, L. A. & Healy, S. D. (2011) Vocal mimicry. Current Biology, 21, 9 – 10. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2010.11.026
Kelley, L. A. & Healy, S. D. (2010) Vocal mimicry in male bowerbirds: who learns from whom? Biology Letters, 6, 626 – 629. http://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2010.0093
Healy, S. D., Bacon, I. E., Haggis, O., Harris, A. P. & Kelley, L. A. (2009) Explanations for variation in cognitive ability: Behavioural ecology meets comparative cognition. Behavioural Processes, 80, 288-294. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2008.10.002
Kelley, L. A., Coe, R. L., Madden, J.R & Healy, S.D. (2008) Vocal mimicry in songbirds. Animal Behaviour, 76, 521-528. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.04.012
Other publications
Kelley, L. A. (2012) Masters of Illusion. Australasian Science, 33, 30-32. pdf
Kelley, L. A. (2009) Bowerbirds (book review). Ibis, 151, 218. http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919X.2008.00903.x
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