Bandini, E., Harrison, R., Hubresch, C. & Forss, S. I. F. (2026). A comparison of tool-use flexibility between captive chimpanzees and bonobos. Royal Society Open Sciences. Article link
Felsch, J., Mas-Carrió, E., Mercier, S., Schneider, J., Forss, S. I. F., van de Waal, E. and Fumagalli, L. (2026). Investigating anthropogenic and social influences on diet of semi-urban vervet monkeys using DNA metabarcoding. Ecology & Evolution. Article link
Johnson-Ulrich, L. & Forss, S. I. F. (2025). How cognitively demanding is the urban niche? Reconsidering exaptation and habituation. Animal Cognition. Article link
Bandini, E., Girish, S., Barnes, P., Boot, M., Tennie, C. & Forss, S. I. F. (2025). The Biases in Captive Chimpanzee Cognitive Research: First Insights From the Ape Research Index (ARI) Database. Ethology. Article link
Barnes, PE., Robira, B., Mercier, S. & Forss, S. I. F. Behavioural flexibility and its drivers in semi-urban vervet monkeys. Pre-print link
Brügger, R. K., Gokcekus, S., Burkart, J. M. & Forss, S. I. F. (2025). Stimulus type and social context are stronger than individual differences in common marmosets’ novelty exploration. Animal Behaviour, 223, 123183. Article link
Saccà, T., Protopapa, E., Jaeggi, AV. & Forss, S. I. F. Developmental trajectories of cognitive traits in meerkats match socio-ecological demands. Pre-print link
Turner, ZJ., Neumann, C., Saccà, T. & Forss, S. I. F. Nutritional needs and social bonds: how early-life dependencies shape meerkat sociality. Pre-print link
Robira, B., Bande, N., Mercier, S., Manser, A., Vanderlocht, C. & Forss, S. I. F. Living with urban fear: vervet monkey response to an evolutionarily new predator. Pre-print link
Ellington, L., Mercier, S., Motes-Rodrigo, A., van de Waal, E., & Forss, S. I. F. (2024). Urbanization does not increase ‘object curiosity’in vervet monkeys, but semi-urban individuals selectively explore food related anthropogenic items. Current Zoology, zoae022. Article link
Forss, S. I. F., Ciria, A., Clark, F., Galusca, C., Harrison, D. & Lee, SA. (2024). A Transdisciplinary View on Curiosity Beyond Linguistic Humans: Animals, Infants, and Artificial Intelligence. Biological Reviews, Article Link
Birchmeier, K., Johnson-Ulrich, L., & Forss, S. I. F. (2023). The role of umwelt in animal curiosity: A within and between species comparison of novelty exploration in mongooses. Animal Behavior and Cognition, 10(4), 329-354. Article Link
Forss, S. I. F. & Willems, E. P (2022). The curious case of great ape curiosity and how it is shaped by sociality. Ethology. Article link
Forss, S. I. F., Motes-Rodrigo, A., Dongre, P., Mohr, T., & van de Waal, E. (2021). Captivity and habituation to humans raise curiosity in vervet monkeys. Animal cognition, 1-12. Article Link
Forss, S., Motes-Rodrigo, A., Hrubesch, C., & Tennie, C. (2020). Chimpanzees’(Pan troglodytes) problem-solving skills are influenced by housing facility and captive care duration. PeerJ, 8, e10263. Article link
Forss, S. I. F., Motes-Rodrigo, A. & Tennie, C. (2019). Animal Behavior: Ape Curiosity on Camera. Current Biology. Article link
Forss, S. I. F., Motes-Rodrigo, A., Hrubesch, C. & Tennie, C. (2019). Differences in novel food response between Pongo and Pan. American Journal of Primatology. Article link
Carter, G., Forss, S. I. F., Page, R. & Ratcliffe, J. (2018) Younger vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) are more likely than adults to explore novel objects. PLOS ONE. Article link
Schuppli, C., Forss, S. I. F., Meulman, E., Utami Atmoko, S., van Noordwijk, M. & van Schaik, C. (November 2017) The effects of sociability on exploratory tendency and innovation repertoires in wild Sumatran and Bornean orangutans. Reports 7:15464. Article link
Forss, S. I. F., Koski, S. E. & van Schaik, C. P. (August 2017) Explaining the paradox of neophobic explorers: the social information hypothesis. International Journal of Primatology. 1-24. Article link
van Schaik, C. P., Forss, S.I. F., & Damerius, L. A. (2017). How the origin of curiosity may have boosted hominin cultural evolution. Paper presented at the the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA), New Orleans, Louisiana. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Supplement, 64, 391.
Forss, S. I. F., Damerius, L. A., (shared 1st authorship) Kosonen, Z. K.; Willems, E.; Burkart, J. M.; Call, J.; Galdikas, B. M.; Liebal, K.; Haun, D. & van Schaik, C. P. (January 2017) Orientation toward humans predicts cognitive performance in orangutans. Scientific Reports. Article link
Schuppli, C., Forss, S. I. F., Meulman, E., Zweifel, N., Lee, K., van Noordwijk, M. A. & van Schaik, C. P. (2016) Development of foraging skills in two orangutan populations: needing to learn or needing to grow? Frontiers in Zoology.
Forss, S. I. F., Willems, E., Call, J. & van Schaik, C. P. (July 2016) Cultural differences between orang-utan species: a test of the cultural intelligence hypothesis. Scientific Reports 6: 30156.
Schuppli, C., Meulman, E., Forss, S. I. F., Aprilinayati, F., van Noordwijk, M. A. & van Schaik, C. P. (June 2016). Observational learning and socially induced practice of routine skills in wild immature orang-utans. Animal Behaviour.
van Schaik, C. P., Burkart, J., Damerius, L., Forss, S. I. F., Koops, K., van Noordwijk, M. A. & Schuppli, C. (February2016) The reluctant innovator: orang-utans and the phylogeny of creativity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B Biological Sciences.
Forss, S. I. F., Schuppli, C., Haiden, D., Zweifel, N. & van Schaik, C. P. (June 2015) Contrasting responses to novelty by wild and captive orangutans. American Journal of Primatology.
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