Publikationen

Angela Stoger

Wissenschaftsbuch des Jahres 2022: Auszeichnung für „Von singenden Mäusen und quietschenden Elefanten“

Bellen, miauen und zirpen, brüllen, röhren und zwitschern, trompeten, wiehern und quaken: Das Sprachkonzert der Tiere ist ebenso ausgeklügelt wie vielfältig. Es zeugt von ihren beeindruckenden kognitiven und emotionalen Fähigkeiten, mit denen sie uns Menschen nicht selten große Schritte voraus sind.

Angela Stöger nimmt uns mit auf eine faszinierende Reise durch die Welt der tierischen Kommunikation. Die renommierte Verhaltensforscherin und Bioakustikerin erzählt, wie sie nachweisen konnte, dass auch Giraffen Laute von sich geben, von ihren Begegnungen mit sprechenden Elefanten oder von den erstaunlich differenzierten Kommunikationsmustern bei Delfinen.

Je genauer wir zuhören, desto besser lernen wir, unsere Tiere zu verstehen. Angela Stöger geht auch der Frage nach, wie sie mit dem Lärm umgehen, den wir Menschen erzeugen. Nutzen wir die faszinierenden Erkenntnisse der Bioakustik, um Haus- wie Wildtiere besser zu schützen und zu verstehen!

Brandstätter Verlag

Wissenschaftsbuch 2022

Wissenschaftliche Publikationen Angela Stöger

Peer Review
Die 6 wissenschaftlich bedeutendsten Arbeiten (antichronologisch)

Weitere Publikationen (antichronologisch) / Buchkapitel / Gasteditorin 

  • Pardo M, Poole JH, Stoeger SA, Wrege PH, O’Connel-Rodwell CE, Padmalal UK, Shermin de Silva. 2019. Differences in combinatorial calls among the three elephant species can not be explained by phylogeny. Behavioral Ecology. 30, 809-820.
  • Baotic A#, Garcia M, Boeckle M, Stoeger A#. 2018. Field propagation experiments of male African savannah elephant rumbles: A focus of the transmission of formant frequencies. Animals 8, 167. Doi: 10.339/ani8100167. #corresponsing authors
  • Stoeger AS & Baotic A. 2017. Male African elephants discriminate and prefer vocalizations of unfamiliar females. Scientific Reports. 7:46414. DOI:10.1038/srep46414.
  • Baotic A & Stoeger AS#. Sexual dimorphism in elephant rumbles. 2017. PlosOne. 2(5): e0177411. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0177411. #corresponding author.
  • Stoeger AS. & Baotic A. 2016. Information content and acoustic structure of male African elephant social rumbles. Scientific reports. 6:27585, DOI:10.1038/srep27585.
  • Ravignani A, Fitch WT*, Hanke FD*, Heinrich T*, Hurgitsch B*, Kotz SA*, Scharff C*, Stoeger AS* and Bart deBoer. 2016. What Pinnipeds Have to Say about Human Speech, Music and the Evolution of Rhythm. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 10:274. DOI:10.3389/fnins.2016.00274 *These authors have contributed equally to this work.
  • Baotic A#, Sicks F, Stoeger AS#. 2015. Nocturnal “humming” vocalizations: adding a piece to the puzzle of giraffe vocal communication. BMC Research Notes. 8:425. #corresponding authors.
  • Zeppelzauer M & Stoeger AS#. 2015. Establishing the fundamentals for an elephant early warning and monitoring system. BMC Research Notes. 8:409. #corresponding author
  • Zeppelzauer M#, Hensman S, Stoeger AS#. 2015. Towards an Automated Acoustic Detection System for free ranging elephants. Bioacoustics. #corresponding authors. DOI:10.1080/09524622.2014.906321.
  • Stoeger AS, Zeppelzauer M, Baotic A. 2014. Age group estimation in free-ranging African elephants based on acoustic cues of low-frequency rumbles. Bioacoustics. 23,231-246.
  • Viljoen JJ, Ganswindt A, Reynecke C, Stoeger AS, Langbauer WR. 2014. Vocal stress associated with a translocation of a family herd of African elephants. In the Kruger National Park, South Africa. Bioacoustics. DOI:10.1080/09524622.2014.906320.
  • Herbst CT, Svenc J, Lohscheller J, Frey R, Gumpenberger M, Stoeger AS, Fitch WT. 2013. Complex vibratory patterns in an elephant larynx. Journal of Experimental Biology. 216: 4054-4064.
  • Baotic A*, Stoeger AS*, Desheng L, Tang C, Charlton BD. 2013. The vocal repertoire of infant giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca). Bioacoustics DOI:10.1080/09524622.2013.798744. *joint first authors.
  • Zeppelzauer M, Stoeger AS, Breitender C. 2013. Acoustic detection of elephant presence in noisy environments. Proceedings of the 2nd ACM international workshop on Multimedia analysis for ecological data 2013, DOI:10.1145/2509896.2509900.
  • Stoeger AS, Heilmann G, Zeppelzauer M, Ganswindt A, Hensman S, Charlton BD. 2012. Visualizing sound emission of elephant vocalizations: evidence fort two rumble production types. PloS ONE. 7(11):e48907. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0048907.
  • Stoeger AS, Baotic A, Desheng L, Charlton BD. 2012. Acoustic features indicate arousal in infant giant panda vocalizations. Ethology. 118, 896-905.
  • Herler A, Stoeger AS#. 2012. Vocalizations and associated behavior of Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) calves. Behavior. 149, 575-599. #corresponding author.
  • Stoeger AS, Charlton BD, Kratochvil H, Fitch WT. 2011. Vocal cues indicate level of arousal in infant African elephant roars. Journal of the Acoustic Society of America. 130, 1700-1710.
  • Stoeger-Horwath AS, Stoeger S, Schwammer HM, Kratochvil H. 2007. Call repertoire of infant African elephants: First insights into the early vocal ontogeny. Journal of the Acoustic Society of America. 121(6): 3922-3931.
  • Stoeger-Horwath AS, Schwammer HM. 2003. Vocalizations of Juvenile Cheetahs during feeding at Schoenbrunn Zoo. International Zoo News. 50(8): 468-474.
  • Stoeger-Horwath AS, Schwammer HM. 2003. A Chronobiological Investigation of Four Cheetah Cubs at Schoenbrunn Zoo. International Zoo News. 50(8): 330-337.

Buchkapitel

  • Stoeger AS. Elephant sonic and infrasonic sound production, perception and processing. In: Neuroendocrine Regulation of Animal Vocalization (ed. Rosenfeld CS & Hoffmann F), Elsevier, ISBN-13: 978-0128151600. November 2021.
  • Stoeger AS. Book review: Elephant Sense and Sensibility by Michael Garstang. The Quarterly Review of Biology, vol 92, 334. 2017. https://doi.org/10.1086/693647
  • Narins PM, Stoeger AS, O’Connell-Rodwell C. Infrasonic and Seismic Communication in Vertebrates with Special Emphasis on the Afrotheria: An Update and Future Directions. Springer Hdb. Auditory Res., Vol. 53, Roderick A. Suthers et al. (Eds): Vertebrate Sound Production and Acoustic Communication, 978-3-319-27719-6, 317374_1_En, (7), 2016.
  • Stoeger AS, de Silva S. 2014. Vocal communication in African and Asian elephants: a cross-species comparison. In: Biocommunication of Animals (ed. Witzany G.), Springer SBM NL, pp 21-39. DOI:10.1007/978-94-007-7414-8_3.

Gasteditorin

In einer Spezialausgabe vom Journal Animals (ISSN 2076-2615) innerhalb der „Wildlife“ Serie:
“Elephant Communication”
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/animals/special_issues/Elephant_Communication

Geladene Vorträge

  • Keynote speaker at the 2st International Meeting on Zoo Research, Conservation and Biodiversity, March 31- April 3, 2021, Seregeti-Park Hodenhagen, Germany (upcoming)
  • „Giant voice scientists”. Keynote speaker at the Worldwide Music Conference, WWMC 2021, April 22-23, Prague, Czech Republic, https://wwmc.io/#speakers
  • „Mammal vocal communication“. Guest lecture at the Seminar of Behavioural and Evolutionary Ecology, University of Bern. May 6, 2020. (online)
  • „Vocal learning in elephants: How and Why they imitate”. Workshop Unifying vocal learning. September 9-13, 2019, Leiden, The Nederlands
  • „Vocal communication in elephants. Human Elephant Conflict and Behaviour Workshop”, March 12-14, Bela Bela, South Africa. 2019
  • „Die Sprache der Elefanten aus Sicht der Verhaltensforschung”. Abendvortrag at the 14th Annual Meeting der Ethologische Gesellschaft: 06.-08. February 2019.
  • „The gentlemen’s club: Vocal communication in male African elephants”. 111th Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society. Greifswald, 10-15.9.2018
  • „The gentlemen’s club’: Vocal communication in male African elephants”. 5th European Student Conference on Behavior and Cognition, Vienna, 5-8.9.2018.
  • „Elephant Communication & Cognition”. Rory Hensman Conservation and Research Unit anti-poaching Conference, Cape Town, June 20-24, 2016.
  • „A man of his word: Vocal communication in male African elephants” CogCom Student Workshop 2015, Vienna, July 2, 2015.
  • „All about that bass: Elephant vocal communication: Sound production and adaptive context” Department Colloquium. Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University, Budapest, April 8, 2015.
  • „Die Sprache der Elefanten” University Meets Public, Urania, Vienna, 2.3.2014.
  • „Vokale Kommunikation bei Elefanten” Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, 11.02.2014.
  • „New aspects on elephant vocal communication” South African Indigenous Biosensor Meeting at Bela Bela, South Africa, 2-5. September 2013.
  • „Kommunikation und emotionale Bindung bei Afrikanischen Elefanten”. Talk given within the series of lectures „Pforten der Wahrnehmung III: Stimmungen- Affekte-Emotionen”. Studium Generale, Constance University, Germany, 17.11. 2008.
  • „Vocal imitation in African elephants” Symposium on the integrative study of mimicry, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, 19. 05. 2005.

Lehre

Doktorarbeiten

  • Vesta Eleuteri, start 15.10.2021. Multimodal communication in African elephants.
  • Beeck Veronika, ongoing. Functions and mechanisms of vocal flexibility in social mammals. Started September 2017. Funded via the Doctoral Program Cognition and Communication.
  • Anton Baotic, 2018. Describing and decoding low-frequency vocalizations in two large terrestrial mammals species. 1.3.2014-17.10.2018. Funded via the FWF Project P26448 PI Stoeger A, supervised by WT Fitch

Masterarbeiten

  • Lisa Treiber, Individual discrimination of female African lions based on vocalizations. (Ongoing)
  • Evelyn Fuchs, Vocal communication in Asian elephants with an emphasizes on trumpet vocalizations. (ongoing)
  • Britta Schnappat, 2021. Conflict behavior in white White-nosed coati.
  • Gorofski Christoph, 2021. Mother-infant communication in captive African elephants. (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna).
  • Prager Katharina, 2020. Acoustic communication and social network in captive African wild dogs.
  • Florian Hüls, 2019. Sparring behavior in captive meerkats. Nagorzanski Tina, 2018: Vocal communication in cheetahs: investigating the cheetahs high frequency contact chirps.

Mitbetreute Masterarbeiten (vor der Habilitation)

  • Beek, Veronika, 2016: Call convergence in captive African elephants’‚ supported by the FWF Project P26448. (offizieller Betreuer W. Tecumseh Fitch)
  • Kautek, Gratia, 2015. Behavioural response of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) and short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus) to whale watching boats off La Gomera (Canary Islands). (offizieller Betreuer W. Tecumseh Fitch)
  • Weidner, Lisa 2015: Comparing the vocal behavior of male and female African elephants in captivity’. Master thesis at the University of Würzburg, supported by the FWF Project P26448 (offizieller Betreuer Johannes Speathe)
  • Bruckner Harald, 2012. Stimmentwicklung eines im Zoo geborenen Großen Pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) in den ersten 10 Lebenswochen. (offizieller Betreuer Helmut Kratochvil)
  • Hurgitsch Bettina, 2011. Akustische Kommunikation und Mutter-Kalb-Beziehung bei Giraffen in zoologischer Haltung. (offizieller Betreuer Helmut Kratochvil)
  • Baotic Anton, 2011. Vocal communication in infant giant panda cubs (Ailuropoda melanoleuca). (offizieller Betreuer Helmut Kratochvil)
  • Herler Astrid, 2009. Vocal communication in Asian elephant calves (Elephas maximus). Diploma thesis. (offizieller Betreuer Helmut Kratochvil)
  • Ronald Lintner, 2007. Akustische Kommunikation bei Afrikanischen Savannenelefenen: Rumble- Variationen und akustisch individuelle Unterschiede innerhalb einer Elefantengruppe in zoologischer Haltung. (offizieller Betreuer Helmut Kratochvil)

Lehraktivität an der Universität Wien

Bachelor-Thesis are supervised in the frame of the course „ Animal Acoustic Signals “ (300703), on versatile topics addressing vocal communication, behavior and cognition.

Kurse

  1. 300112-1 Wie moderne Zootierhaltung funktioniert (WS)
  2. 470003-1 SE PhD Seminar in Cognition and Communication (WS and SS)
  3. 300230-1 UE Tierbeobachtungen: Praktikum (SS)
  4. 300703-1 PP Lautsignale bei Tieren: Praktikum (SS)
  5. 180086-1 VO MEi:CogSci Cognitive Science Lecture Series (2018W)