2014
Laidre, M.E. 2014. The social lives of hermits. Natural History 122: 24-29. [LINK]
(Cover of June 2014 issue)
Laidre, M.E. & A.L. Greggor. 2014, in press. Swarms of swift scavengers: ecological role of marine intertidal hermit crabs in California. Marine Biology
Laidre, M.E. & R. Trinh. 2014. Unlike terrestrial hermit crabs, marine hermit crabs do not prefer shells previously used by conspecifics. Crustaceana 87: 856-865.
Laidre, M.E. & K.A. Epstein. 2014. Review of The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life by Robert Trivers. Human Nature 25: 285-297.
2013
Laidre, M.E. & R.A. Johnstone. 2013. Animal signals: a primer. Current Biology 23: R829-R833.
Laidre, M.E., A. Lamb, S. Shultz & M. Olsen. 2013. Making sense of information in noisy networks: human communication, gossip, and distortion. Journal of Theoretical Biology 317: 152-160.
Laidre, M.E. 2013. Eavesdropping foragers use level of collective commotion as public information to target high quality patches. Oikos 122: 1505-1511.
Laidre, M.E. 2013. Foraging across ecosystems: diet diversity and social foraging spanning aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems by an invertebrate. Marine Ecology 34: 80-89.
2012
Laidre, M.E. 2012. Niche construction drives social dependence in hermit crabs. Current Biology 22: R861- R863.
Laidre, M.E., E. Patten & L. Pruitt. 2012. Costs of a more spacious home after remodelling by hermit crabs. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 9: 3574-3577.
Laidre, M.E. 2012. Homes for hermits: temporal, spatial and structural dynamics as transportable homes are incorporated into a population. Journal of Zoology 288: 33-40.
Laidre, M.E. & G.J. Vermeij. 2012. A biodiverse housing market in hermit crabs: proposal for a new biodiversity index. Cuadernos de Investigación UNED 4: 175-179.
Laidre, M.E. 2012. Mandrill visual gestures: a round-the-world study of the largest of all monkeys. In: Pika, S. and K. Liebal (eds.) Developments in Primate Gesture Research, John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 113-128. [BOOK ON AMAZON]
Laidre, M.E. 2012. Review of Principles of Animal Communication (second edition) by Jack Bradbury and Sandra Vehrencamp. Animal Behaviour 83: 865-866.
2011
Laidre, M.E. 2011. Ecological relations between hermit crabs and their shell-supplying gastropods: constrained consumers. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 397: 65-70.
Laidre, M.E. 2011. Meaningful gesture in monkeys? Investigating whether mandrills create social culture. PLoS ONE 6: e14610.
2010
Laidre, M.E. 2010. How rugged individualists enable one another to find food and shelter: field experiments with tropical hermit crabs. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B, Biological Sciences 277: 1361-1369.
2009
Laidre, M.E. 2009. How often do animals lie about their intentions? An experimental test. The American Naturalist 173: 337-346.
Couzin, I.D. & M.E. Laidre. 2009. Fission-fusion populations. Current Biology 19: R633-635.
Laidre, M.E. 2009. Informative breath: olfactory cues sought during social foraging among old world monkeys (Mandrillus sphinx, M. leucophaeus, and Papio anubis). Journal of Comparative Psychology 123: 34-44.
Laidre, M.E. 2009. Review of The Gestural Communication of Apes and Monkeys edited by Josep Call and Michael Tomasello. Animal Behaviour 77: 979-980.
2008
Laidre, M.E. & S.L. Vehrencamp. 2008. Is bird song a reliable signal of aggressive intent? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 62: 1207-1211.
Laidre, M.E. & R.W. Elwood. 2008. Motivation matters: cheliped extension displays in the hermit crab, Pagurus bernhardus, are honest signals of hunger. Animal Behaviour 75: 2041-2047.
Laidre, M.E. 2008. Do captive mandrills invent new gestures? Animal Cognition 11: 179-187.
Laidre, M.E. 2008. Spontaneous performance of wild baboons on three novel food-access puzzles. Animal Cognition 11: 223-230.
Laidre, M.E. & J.L. Yorzinski. 2008. Offspring protection by male mandrills, Mandrillus sphinx. Primate Report 76: 1-8.
Laidre, M.E. 2008. The simian tongue: the long debate about animal language. American Journal of Human Biology 20: 740-741.
2007
Laidre, M.E. 2007. Vulnerability and reliable signaling in conflicts between hermit crabs. Behavioral Ecology 18: 736-741.
2006
Laidre, M.E. 2006. Manipulation without mind-reading: information suppression and leakage during food discovery by mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx). Behaviour 143: 365-392.
2005
Laidre, M.E. 2005. Honest signaling of intentions: the importance of performance risk, receiver response, and prior knowledge of opponents in the threat displays of mandrills. Behaviour 142: 455-476.
Laidre, M.E. & J.L. Yorzinski. 2005. The silent bared-teeth face and the crest-raise of the mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx): a contextual analysis of signal function. Ethology 111: 143-157.
Laidre, M.E. 2014. The social lives of hermits. Natural History 122: 24-29. [LINK]
(Cover of June 2014 issue)
Laidre, M.E. & A.L. Greggor. 2014, in press. Swarms of swift scavengers: ecological role of marine intertidal hermit crabs in California. Marine Biology
Laidre, M.E. & R. Trinh. 2014. Unlike terrestrial hermit crabs, marine hermit crabs do not prefer shells previously used by conspecifics. Crustaceana 87: 856-865.
Laidre, M.E. & K.A. Epstein. 2014. Review of The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life by Robert Trivers. Human Nature 25: 285-297.
2013
Laidre, M.E. & R.A. Johnstone. 2013. Animal signals: a primer. Current Biology 23: R829-R833.
Laidre, M.E., A. Lamb, S. Shultz & M. Olsen. 2013. Making sense of information in noisy networks: human communication, gossip, and distortion. Journal of Theoretical Biology 317: 152-160.
Laidre, M.E. 2013. Eavesdropping foragers use level of collective commotion as public information to target high quality patches. Oikos 122: 1505-1511.
Laidre, M.E. 2013. Foraging across ecosystems: diet diversity and social foraging spanning aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems by an invertebrate. Marine Ecology 34: 80-89.
2012
Laidre, M.E. 2012. Niche construction drives social dependence in hermit crabs. Current Biology 22: R861- R863.
- Highlighted with a 'Dispatch' piece in the same issue by Geerat Vermeij entitled 'Evolution: remodelling hermit shellters': R882-R884.
Laidre, M.E., E. Patten & L. Pruitt. 2012. Costs of a more spacious home after remodelling by hermit crabs. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 9: 3574-3577.
Laidre, M.E. 2012. Homes for hermits: temporal, spatial and structural dynamics as transportable homes are incorporated into a population. Journal of Zoology 288: 33-40.
Laidre, M.E. & G.J. Vermeij. 2012. A biodiverse housing market in hermit crabs: proposal for a new biodiversity index. Cuadernos de Investigación UNED 4: 175-179.
Laidre, M.E. 2012. Mandrill visual gestures: a round-the-world study of the largest of all monkeys. In: Pika, S. and K. Liebal (eds.) Developments in Primate Gesture Research, John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 113-128. [BOOK ON AMAZON]
Laidre, M.E. 2012. Review of Principles of Animal Communication (second edition) by Jack Bradbury and Sandra Vehrencamp. Animal Behaviour 83: 865-866.
2011
Laidre, M.E. 2011. Ecological relations between hermit crabs and their shell-supplying gastropods: constrained consumers. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 397: 65-70.
Laidre, M.E. 2011. Meaningful gesture in monkeys? Investigating whether mandrills create social culture. PLoS ONE 6: e14610.
- The gesture described in this paper was highlighted with a picture and description in the book 'Primate Communication: A Multimodal Approach' 2013 Cambridge University Press by Liebal, Waller, Burrows, and Slocombe.
2010
Laidre, M.E. 2010. How rugged individualists enable one another to find food and shelter: field experiments with tropical hermit crabs. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B, Biological Sciences 277: 1361-1369.
2009
Laidre, M.E. 2009. How often do animals lie about their intentions? An experimental test. The American Naturalist 173: 337-346.
Couzin, I.D. & M.E. Laidre. 2009. Fission-fusion populations. Current Biology 19: R633-635.
Laidre, M.E. 2009. Informative breath: olfactory cues sought during social foraging among old world monkeys (Mandrillus sphinx, M. leucophaeus, and Papio anubis). Journal of Comparative Psychology 123: 34-44.
Laidre, M.E. 2009. Review of The Gestural Communication of Apes and Monkeys edited by Josep Call and Michael Tomasello. Animal Behaviour 77: 979-980.
2008
Laidre, M.E. & S.L. Vehrencamp. 2008. Is bird song a reliable signal of aggressive intent? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 62: 1207-1211.
Laidre, M.E. & R.W. Elwood. 2008. Motivation matters: cheliped extension displays in the hermit crab, Pagurus bernhardus, are honest signals of hunger. Animal Behaviour 75: 2041-2047.
Laidre, M.E. 2008. Do captive mandrills invent new gestures? Animal Cognition 11: 179-187.
Laidre, M.E. 2008. Spontaneous performance of wild baboons on three novel food-access puzzles. Animal Cognition 11: 223-230.
Laidre, M.E. & J.L. Yorzinski. 2008. Offspring protection by male mandrills, Mandrillus sphinx. Primate Report 76: 1-8.
Laidre, M.E. 2008. The simian tongue: the long debate about animal language. American Journal of Human Biology 20: 740-741.
2007
Laidre, M.E. 2007. Vulnerability and reliable signaling in conflicts between hermit crabs. Behavioral Ecology 18: 736-741.
2006
Laidre, M.E. 2006. Manipulation without mind-reading: information suppression and leakage during food discovery by mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx). Behaviour 143: 365-392.
2005
Laidre, M.E. 2005. Honest signaling of intentions: the importance of performance risk, receiver response, and prior knowledge of opponents in the threat displays of mandrills. Behaviour 142: 455-476.
Laidre, M.E. & J.L. Yorzinski. 2005. The silent bared-teeth face and the crest-raise of the mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx): a contextual analysis of signal function. Ethology 111: 143-157.