2024
C Coye, C., KR Caspar & P Patel-Grosz (2024). Dance displays in gibbons: biological and linguistic perspectives on structured, intentional, and rhythmic body movement. Primates (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-024-01154-4
KR Caspar, C Gutiérrez-Ibáñez, OC Bertrand, T Carr, JAD Colbourne, A Erb, H George, TR Holtz Jr, D Naish, DR Wylie & GR Hurlburt (2024). How smart was T. rex? Testing claims of exceptional cognition in dinosaurs and the application of neuron count estimates in palaeontological research. The Anatomical Record, 1–32. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25459
GA Manley, B Maat, S Begall, EP Malkemper, KR Caspar, L Moritz & P van Dijk (2024). Otoacoustic emissions in African mole-rats. Hearing Research, 108994.
2023
KR Caspar, L Hüttner & S Begall (2023). Scleral appearance is not a correlate of domestication in mammals. Zoological Letters, 9(1), 1-8.
KR Caspar (2023) A review of Fukomys ochraceocinereus, an enigmatic mole-rat from Central Africa (Rodentia: Bathyergidae). Lynx, 53 (1), 79–92.
R Šumbera, M Uhrová, S Begall, KR Caspar, D Jerkovičová, P Van Daele, WN Chitaukali, CG Faulkes, NC Bennett, C Johannes, H Burda, O Mikula (2023) The biology of an isolated Mashona mole-rat population from southern Malawi, with implications for the diversity and biogeography of the genus Fukomys. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 2023, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13127-023-00604-z
2022
KR Caspar, P Stopka, D Issel, KH Katschak, T Zöllner, S Zupanc, P Žáček, & S Begall (2022) Perioral secretions enable complex social signaling in African mole-rats (genus Fukomys). Scientific Reports 12 (1), 22366
KR Caspar, F Pallasdies, L Mader, H Sartorelli, S Begall (2022) The evolution and biological correlates of hand preferences in anthropoid primates. eLife 11, e77875
S Begall, L Bottermann, KR Caspar (2022) Self-domestication underground? Testing for social and morphological correlates of animal personality in cooperatively-breeding Ansell’s mole-rats (Fukomys anselli). Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10, 862082
KR Caspar, Y Yi (2022) Hylobates moloch (Primates: Hylobatidae). Mammalian Species 54 (1021), seac006
KR Caspar, S Begall (2022) Sexual dimorphism in toothed whales (Odontoceti) follows Rensch’s rule. Mammalian Biology 102 (2), 523-529
ManyPrimates (2022) The evolution of primate short-term memory. Animal Behavior and Cognition, 9 (4), 428-516
2021
KR Caspar, H Burda, S Begall (2021) Fukomys mechowii (Rodentia: Bathyergidae). Mammalian Species 53 (1011), 145-159
S Begall, H Burda, KR Caspar (2021) Fukomys anselli (Rodentia: Bathyergidae). Mammalian Species 53 (1012), 160-173KR Caspar, A Heinrich, L Mellinghaus, P Gerhardt, S Begall (2021) Evoked auditory potentials from African mole-rats and coruros reveal disparity in subterranean rodent hearing. Journal of Experimental Biology 224 (22), jeb243371
KR Caspar, J Müller, S Begall (2021) Effects of sex and breeding status on skull morphology in cooperatively breeding Ansell’s mole-rats and an appraisal of sexual dimorphism in the Bathyergidae. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9, 638754
KR Caspar, M Biggemann, T Geissmann, S Begall (2021) Ocular pigmentation in humans, great apes, and gibbons is not suggestive of communicative functions. Scientific Reports 11 (1), 1-14
2020
KR Caspar, C Kammerer, M Hradec (2020) Attention-getting in a white-cheeked gibbon by means of a novel vocalization? Behaviour 157 (14-15), 1245-1255
KR Caspar, K Moldenhauer, RE Moritz, P Němec, EP Malkemper, S Begall (2020) Eyes are essential for magnetoreception in a mammal. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 17 (170), 20200513
KR Caspar (2020) Reversal of precedence: The oldest available name of the Javan gibbon and a complete synonymy of the species. Primates 61 (4), 557-561
2019
CV Fleischle, PM Sander, T Wintrich, KR Caspar (2019) Hematological convergence between Mesozoic marine reptiles (Sauropterygia) and extant aquatic amniotes elucidates diving adaptations in plesiosaurs. PeerJ 7, e8022
BA Huber, KR Caspar, J Eberle (2019) New species reveal unexpected interspecific microhabitat diversity in the genus Uthina Simon, 1893 (Araneae: Pholcidae). Invertebrate Systematics 33 (1), 181-207
ManyPrimates (2019) Collaborative open science as a way to reproducibility and new insights in primate cognition research. Japanese Psychological Review 62 (3), 205-220
2018
KR Caspar, L Mader, F Pallasdies, M Lindenmeier, S Begall (2018) Captive gibbons (Hylobatidae) use different referential cues in an object-choice task: insights into lesser ape cognition and manual laterality. PeerJ 6, e5348