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Publications: DR Alexander Mielke

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( 2026 ) . Transmission of MPXV from fire-footed rope squirrels to sooty mangabeys . Nature1 - 6 .
Mielke A, Testard C, Motes-Rodrigo A, Brent L, De Moor D ( 2025 ) . Observation methods in animal behaviour: a simulation study of performance .
Samuni L, Crockford C ( 2024 ) . Social play fosters cooperation in wild adult chimpanzees . Current Biology
Mielke A, Badihi G, Graham KE, Grund C, Hashimoto C, Piel AK, Safryghin A, Slocombe KE et al. ( 2024 ) . Many morphs: Parsing gesture signals from the noise . Behavior Research Methods vol. 56 , ( 7 ) 6520 - 6537 .
Rincon AV, Waller BM, Duboscq J, Mielke A, Pérez C, Clark PR, Micheletta J ( 2023 ) . Higher social tolerance is associated with more complex facial behavior in macaques . eLife vol. 12 ,
Schofield DP, Albery GF, Firth JA, Hayashi M, Biro D ( 2023 ) . Automated face recognition using deep neural networks produces robust primate social networks and sociality measures . Methods in Ecology and Evolution vol. 14 , ( 8 ) 1937 - 1951 .
Mielke A ( 2023 ) . Impact of dominance rank specification in dyadic interaction models . PLOS ONE vol. 18 , ( 7 )
Mielke A ( 2022 ) . Chimpanzee play sequences are structured hierarchically as games . PeerJ vol. 10 ,
Massen JJM, Mielke A ( 2022 ) . Third-Party Interactions . Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior , Springer Nature
Mielke A, Waller BM, Pérez C ( 2021 ) . NetFACS: Using network science to understand facial communication systems . Behavior Research Methods vol. 54 , ( 4 ) 1912 - 1927 .
Mielke A, Bruchmann C ( 2021 ) . Grooming interventions in female rhesus macaques as social niche construction . Animal Behaviour vol. 173 , 105 - 114 .
Mielke A, Preis A, Samuni L, Gogarten JF, Lester JD ( 2021 ) . Consistency of Social Interactions in Sooty Mangabeys and Chimpanzees . Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution vol. 8 , 603677 - 603677 .
Tkaczynski PJ, Mielke A, Samuni L, Preis A ( 2020 ) . Long-term repeatability in social behaviour suggests stable social phenotypes in wild chimpanzees . Royal Society Open Science vol. 7 , ( 8 )
Julle-Danière E, Whitehouse J, Vrij A, Gustafsson E, Micheletta J ( 2020 ) . Are there non-verbal signals of guilt? . PLOS ONE vol. 15 , ( 4 )
Mielke A, Wittig RM ( 2020 ) . Predictability and variability of association patterns in sooty mangabeys . Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology vol. 74 , ( 4 )
Clément B, Bene J-CK, Mielke A ( 2020 ) . Within-group spatial position and activity budget of wild sooty mangabeys (<i>Cercocebus atys</i>) in Taï National Park, Côte d’Ivoire . International Journal of Biological and Chemical Sciences vol. 13 , ( 7 ) 2991 - 3008 .
Samuni L, Mielke A, Preis A, Wittig RM ( 2019 ) . Intergroup Competition Enhances Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) In-group Cohesion . International Journal of Primatology vol. 41 , ( 2 ) 342 - 362 .
Mielke A, Crockford C ( 2019 ) . Snake alarm calls as a public good in sooty mangabeys . Animal Behaviour vol. 158 , 201 - 209 .
Mielke A, Crockford C ( 2019 ) . Rank changes in female chimpanzees in Taï National Park . The Chimpanzees of the Taï Forest , Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Gogarten JF, Düx A, Mubemba B, Pléh K, Hoffmann C, Müller‐Tiburtius J, Wittig RM, Leendertz FH ( 2019 ) . Tropical rainforest flies carrying pathogens form stable associations with social nonhuman primates . Molecular Ecology vol. 28 , ( 18 ) 4242 - 4258 .
Samuni L, Preis A, Mielke A, Deschner T ( 2018 ) . Social bonds facilitate cooperative resource sharing in wild chimpanzees . Proceedings of the Royal Society B vol. 285 , ( 1888 )
Preis A, Samuni L, Mielke A, Deschner T, Crockford C ( 2018 ) . Urinary oxytocin levels in relation to post-conflict affiliations in wild male chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) . Hormones and Behavior vol. 105 , 28 - 40 .
Mielke A, Preis A, Samuni L, Gogarten JF, Wittig RM ( 2018 ) . Flexible decision-making in grooming partner choice in sooty mangabeys and chimpanzees . Royal Society Open Science vol. 5 , ( 7 )
Gogarten JF, Davies TJ, Benjamino J, Gogarten JP, Graf J, Mielke A, Mundry R, Wittig RM et al. ( 2018 ) . Factors influencing bacterial microbiome composition in a wild non-human primate community in Taï National Park, Côte d’Ivoire . The ISME Journal: Multidisciplinary Journal of Microbial Ecology vol. 12 , ( 10 ) 2559 - 2574 .
Mielke A, Preis A, Samuni L, Gogarten JF, Crockford C ( 2018 ) . Flexible decision-making in grooming partner choice in sooty mangabeys and chimpanzees . ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE vol. 5 , ( 7 )
Mielke A, Samuni L, Preis A, Gogarten JF ( 2017 ) . Bystanders intervene to impede grooming in Western chimpanzees and sooty mangabeys . Royal Society Open Science vol. 4 , ( 11 )
Lameira AR, Hardus ME, Wich SA, Shumaker RW ( 2016 ) . Vocal fold control beyond the species-specific repertoire in an orang-utan . Scientific Reports vol. 6 , ( 1 )
Mielke A, Zuberbühler K ( 2013 ) . A method for automated individual, species and call type recognition in free-ranging animals . Animal Behaviour vol. 86 , ( 2 ) 475 - 482 .
Muschinski J, Mielke A, Carvalho S . A network-based analysis of signal use during approach interactions across sexes in chacma baboons (Papio ursinus griseipes) .
Mielke A, Samuni L . Accuracy and Precision of Social Relationship Indices .
Mielke A, Carvalho S . Chimpanzee play sequences are structured hierarchically as games .
Mielke A, Preis A, Samuni L, Gogarten JF, Lester J, Crockford C, Wittig RM . Consistency of social interactions in sooty mangabeys and chimpanzees .
Feder JA, Alberts SC, Archie EA, Arlet ME, Baniel A, Beehner JC, Bergman TJ, Carter AJ et al. . Disparate social structures are underpinned by distinct social rules across a primate radiation .
Leendertz F, Riutord-Fe C, Schlotterbeck J, Lagostina L, Kouadio L, Herridge H, Jochum M, Noma N et al. . Fire-footed rope squirrels (Funisciurus pyrropus) are a reservoir host of monkeypox virus (Orthopoxvirus monkeypox) .
Mielke A, Bruchmann C, Schülke O, Ostner J . Grooming interventions in female rhesus macaques as social niche construction .
Rincon AV, Waller BM, Duboscq J, Mielke A, Pérez C, Clark PR, Micheletta J . Higher social tolerance is associated with more complex facial behavior in macaques .
Mielke A . Impact of dominance rank specification in dyadic interaction models .
Tkaczynski PJ, Mielke A, Samuni L, Preis A, Wittig R, Crockford C . Long-term repeatability in social behaviours suggests stable social phenotypes in wild chimpanzees .
Mielke A, Badihi G, Graham KE, Grund C, Hashimoto C, Piel AK, Safryghin A, Slocombe KE et al. . Many morphs: parsing gesture signals from the noise .
Mielke A, Waller B, Perez CJ, Duboscq J, Micheletta J . NetFACS: Using network science to understand facial communication systems .
. Observation methods in animal behaviour: a simulation study of performance . Animal Behaviour
Mielke A, Badihi G, Donnellan E, Graham KE, Hashimoto C, Mine JG, Piel AK, Safryghin A et al. . Predictability of next elements in chimpanzee gesture sequences .
Safryghin A, Badihi G, Ferrer-i-Cancho R, Grund C, Hayashi M, Mielke A, Mine J, Rodrigues ED et al. . Testing methodological and population-specific influences on the detection of Zipf’s law of brevity in chimpanzee gestures .
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