Alan G. McElligott

4.4k total citations
90 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Alan G. McElligott is a scholar working on Small Animals, Ecology and Developmental Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan G. McElligott has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Small Animals, 35 papers in Ecology and 33 papers in Developmental Biology. Recurrent topics in Alan G. McElligott's work include Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies (38 papers), Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (33 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (30 papers). Alan G. McElligott is often cited by papers focused on Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies (38 papers), Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (33 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (30 papers). Alan G. McElligott collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Switzerland and Hong Kong. Alan G. McElligott's co-authors include Elodie F. Briefer, Elisabetta Vannoni, Thomas J. Hayden, Luigi Baciadonna, Christian Nawroth, Mónica Padilla de la Torre, Rebecca Stewart, Res Altwegg, Benjamin J. Pitcher and Tom Reader and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Alan G. McElligott

86 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Peers

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Elodie F. Briefer United Kingdom

Cynthia J. Moss Kenya

Anne Savage United States

Joyce H. Poole Kenya

Jeffrey R. Lucas United States

Karen McComb United Kingdom

David Reby United Kingdom

Marta B. Manser Switzerland

Christopher S. Evans Australia

Marc Naguib Netherlands

Elodie F. Briefer United Kingdom

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688 ×0.6

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Yang, Yuqing, et al.. (2025). Transformer-based audio-visual multimodal fusion for fine-grained recognition of individual sow nursing behaviour. Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture. 15(3). 363–376. 2 indexed citations

McElligott, Alan G., et al.. (2025). Strategic third-party interventions in feral ungulate affiliation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 292(2050). 20251086–20251086. 1 indexed citations

McElligott, Alan G., et al.. (2025). Fighting and friendship: sociodemographic factors and provisioning affect feral cattle behaviour. Animal Behaviour. 225. 123210–123210. 2 indexed citations

Semple, Stuart, et al.. (2024). Goats discriminate emotional valence in the human voice. Animal Behaviour. 209. 227–240. 1 indexed citations

McElligott, Alan G., et al.. (2024). Sex and dominance status affect allogrooming in free-ranging feral cattle. Animal Behaviour. 210. 275–287. 9 indexed citations

Bhattacharjee, Debottam, et al.. (2024). Personality homophily drives female friendships in a feral ungulate. iScience. 27(12). 111419–111419. 2 indexed citations

Wilson, Laura A. B., et al.. (2023). The vocal apparatus: An understudied tool to reconstruct the evolutionary history of echolocation in bats?. Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 30(1). 79–94. 6 indexed citations

Rosanowski, Sarah M., et al.. (2022). Welfare Concerns for Mounted Load Carrying by Working Donkeys in Pakistan. Frontiers in Veterinary Science. 9. 886020–886020. 10 indexed citations

Osthaus, Britta, et al.. (2021). Goats show higher behavioural flexibility than sheep in a spatial detour task. Royal Society Open Science. 8(3). 201627–201627. 10 indexed citations

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McElligott, Alan G., et al.. (2020). Kangaroos display gazing and gaze alternations during an unsolvable problem task. Biology Letters. 16(12). 20200607–20200607. 14 indexed citations

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Valentová, Jaroslava Varella, et al.. (2017). Underrepresentation of women in the senior levels of Brazilian science. PeerJ. 5. e4000–e4000. 39 indexed citations

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Osman, Magda, et al.. (2017). Theory of Animal Mind: Human Nature or Experimental Artefact?. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 21(5). 333–343. 18 indexed citations

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Nawroth, Christian, et al.. (2016). Goats display audience-dependent human-directed gazing behaviour in a problem-solving task. Biology Letters. 12(7). 50 indexed citations

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Pitcher, Benjamin J., Elodie F. Briefer, & Alan G. McElligott. (2015). Intrasexual selection drives sensitivity to pitch, formants and duration in the competitive calls of fallow bucks. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 15(1). 149–149. 16 indexed citations

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Pitcher, Benjamin J., Alex Mesoudi, & Alan G. McElligott. (2013). Sex-Biased Sound Symbolism in English-Language First Names. PLoS ONE. 8(6). e64825–e64825. 39 indexed citations

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Mesoudi, Alex, Alan G. McElligott, & David Adger. (2011). Introduction; Integrating Genetic and Cultural Evolutionary Approaches to Language. Human Biology. 83(2). 141–151. 6 indexed citations

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Briefer, Elodie F., Elisabetta Vannoni, & Alan G. McElligott. (2010). Quality prevails over identity in the sexually selected vocalisations of an ageing mammal. BMC Biology. 8(1). 35–35. 73 indexed citations

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Behnke, Jerzy M., et al.. (2008). Mothers produce less aggressive sons with altered immunity when there is a threat of disease during pregnancy. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 276(1659). 1047–1054. 22 indexed citations

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Vannoni, Elisabetta & Alan G. McElligott. (2008). Low Frequency Groans Indicate Larger and More Dominant Fallow Deer (Dama dama) Males. PLoS ONE. 3(9). e3113–e3113. 131 indexed citations

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Vannoni, Elisabetta, et al.. (2006). Mother‐Young Recognition in an Ungulate Hider Species: A Unidirectional Process. The American Naturalist. 168(3). 412–420. 104 indexed citations

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