Research Centres and Institutes: Recent submissions
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The role of individual behaviour in the collective cultural evolution of humpback whale songs
(University of St Andrews, 2018-12-06) - ThesisFor more than forty years, the complex songs emitted by humpback whales have fascinated the scientific community as well as the general public. These songs are produced by males during the breeding season, and are ... -
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(University of St Andrews, 2017-06-20) - Thesis -
Not just fat : investigating novel physiological state biomarkers in cetacean blubber
(University of St Andrews, 2019-06-26) - ThesisDespite its importance as a predictor of fitness, no consensus has been reached about how to assess the nutritive body condition of free-ranging cetaceans. Standard indices of condition used in terrestrial ecology were ... -
Can I play with madness : American missionaries in Iran during the 1960s and 1970s
(2019-06-27) - ThesisThis thesis studied the interaction of American Protestant missionaries with Iranians during the 1960s and 1970s. It focused on the missionary activities of four American Protestant groups: Presbyterians, Assemblies of ... -
Communication accommodation theory : a dolphin perspective
(University of St Andrews, 2019-06-26) - ThesisFor humans, there is a well-established theory, which explains much of the variation in human verbal dyadic speech behavior, the “communication accommodation theory (CAT)”. In its most basic form, CAT predicts that as two ...