Mitarbeitende

Publications in international peer-reviewed scientific journals

• 2025 Soldati A., Fedurek P., Dezecache G., Muhumuza G., Hobaiter C., Zuberbühler K*., Call J.* Social and individual factors mediate chimpanzee vocal ontogeny. Scientific Reports Link
• 2024 Badihi G., Graham K., Safryghin A., Soldati A., Donnellan E., Grund C., Hashimoto C., Mine J., Piel A.K, Stewart F., Slocombe K.E., Wilke C., Townsend S.W., Zuberbühler K., Zulberti C., Hobaiter C. Conversational homologues: Chimpanzee gestural exchanges share temporal structure with human language. Current Biology Link
• 2023 Badihi G., Graham K., Fallon B., Safryghin A., Soldati A., Zuberbühler K., Hobaiter C. Dialects in leaf-clipping and other leaf-modifying gestures between neighbouring communities of East African chimpanzees. Scientific Reports Link
• 2023 Soldati A., Muhumuza G., Dezecache G., Fedurek P., Taylor D., Call J.*, Zuberbühler K*. The ontogeny of vocal sequences: insights from a newborn wild chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii). International Journal of Primatology Link
• 2022 Péter H., Laporte M., Newton-Fisher N.E., Reynolds V., Samuni L., Soldati A., Vigilant L., Villioth J., Zuberbühler K., Hobaiter C. Recognition of Visual Kinship Signals in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) by Humans (Homo sapiens). Journal of Comparative Psychology Link
• 2022 Eleuteri V., Henderson M., Soldati A., Badihi G., Zuberbühler K., & Hobaiter C. The form and function of chimpanzee buttress-drumming. Animal Behaviour Link
• 2022 Soldati A.*, Barrault C.*, Hobaiter C., Mugisha S., De Moor D., Zuberbühler K.*, Dezecache G.* Infrared thermal imaging as a window into primate social cognition: Insights from social feeding in wild chimpanzees. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Link
• 2022 Soldati A., Fedurek P., Crockford C., Adue S., Akankwasa J.W., Asiimwe C., Asua J., Atayo G., Chandia B., Freymann E., Fryns C., Muhumuza G., Taylor D., Zuberbühler K., Hobaiter C. Dead infant carrying by chimpanzee mothers in the Budongo Forest. Primates Link
• 2022 Soldati A., Fedurek P., Dezecache G., Call J.*, Zuberbühler K.* Audience sensitivity in chimpanzee display pant hoots. Animal Behaviour Link
• 2022 Wilke C.*, Lahiff N. J.*, Badihi G., Donnellan E., Hobaiter C., Machanda Z., Mundry R., Pika S., Soldati A., Wrangham R., Zuberbühler K., Slocombe K.E. Referential gestures are not ubiquitous in wild chimpanzees: alternative functions for exaggerated loud scratch gestures. Animal Behaviour Link
• 2022 De Vevey M., Bouchard A., Soldati A., Zuberbühler K. Thermal imaging reveals audience-dependent effects during cooperation and competition in wild chimpanzees. Scientific Reports Link
• 2019 Kersken V., Gómez J.C., Liszkowski U., Soldati A., & Hobaiter C. A gestural repertoire of 1-to 2-year-old human children: in search of the ape gestures. Animal Cognition Link

Thesis

Soldati A. The ontogeny of pant hoot vocalisations and social awareness in wild chimpanzees. PhD Thesis, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St Andrews, UK. Link

Pre-prints

• Holden E., Grund C., Eguma R., Samuni L., Zuberbühler K., Hobaiter C.*, Soldati A.* The use of pant-hoot vocalisations in female chimpanzees of Budongo Forest. Link
• Mielke A., Badihi G., Donnellan E., Graham K. E., Hashimoto C., Mine J. G., Piel A. K., Safryghin A., Slocombe K. E., Soldati A., Stewart F. A., Townsend S. W., Wilke C., Zuberbuhler K., Zulberti C., & Hobaiter C. Predictability of next elements in chimpanzee gesture sequences. Link
• Jiang Z., Soldati A., Schamberg I., Lameira A.R., & Moran S. Automatic Sound Event Detection and Classification of Great Ape Calls Using Neural Networks. Link

Conference publications

• 2024 Ekström A., Briseño-Jaramillo M., Pascual-Guàrdia C., Berthet M., Sward K., Le Floch A., Wegdell F., Lemasson A., Fischer J., Soldati A., Friedrichs D., Wich S., Holmer S., Bosshard A., Halenar-Price L. , Desphande A., Shearer B., Moran S., Edlund J. Why only a "great" primate discovered speech: A progress report on evolving vocal repertoires. Fonetik 2024
• 2023 Jiang Z., Soldati A., Schamberg I., Lameira A.R., & Moran S. Automatic Sound Event Detection and Classification of Great Ape Calls Using Neural Networks. Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences Link
• 2022 Moran S., Gallot Q., Le Floch A., Maiolini M., Soldati A., Zuberbühler K. Linguistic laws in primate vocal communication. Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Language Evolution (JCoLE) Link
• 2022 Wiltshire C., Badihi G., Pereira A., Soldati A., Zuberbühler K., Lameira A., Slocombe K., Hobaiter C. Using Machine Learning to Show Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) Lip Smack Rhythm Variation: Implications for the Study of Human Speech Evolution. Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Language Evolution (JCoLE) Link
• 2017 Hobaiter C., Soldati A., Zuberbuhler K. Do Chimpanzee Signal Combinations Provide Refinement or Redundancy in Meaning? Folia primatologica

Datasets

• 2021 Hobaiter C., Badihi G., Daly G. B. de M., Eleuteri V., Graham K. E., Grund C., Henderson M., Rodrigues E. D., Safryghin A., Soldati A., & Wiltshire C. The Great Ape Dictionary video database (1.0.0). Zenodo Link