| Chimpanzee alarm call production meets key criteria for intentionality AM Schel, SW Townsend, Z Machanda, K Zuberbühler, KE Slocombe PloS one 8 (10), e76674, 2013 | 372 | 2013 |
| Female chimpanzees use copulation calls flexibly to prevent social competition SW Townsend, T Deschner, K Zuberbühler PLoS One 3 (6), e2431, 2008 | 266 | 2008 |
| Vocal learning in the functionally referential food grunts of chimpanzees SK Watson, SW Townsend, AM Schel, C Wilke, EK Wallace, L Cheng, ... Current Biology 25 (4), 495-499, 2015 | 244 | 2015 |
| Exorcising G rice's ghost: An empirical approach to studying intentional communication in animals SW Townsend, SE Koski, RW Byrne, KE Slocombe, B Bickel, M Boeckle, ... Biological Reviews 92 (3), 1427-1433, 2017 | 232 | 2017 |
| Female-led infanticide in wild chimpanzees SW Townsend, KE Slocombe, ME Thompson, K Zuberbühler Current Biology 17 (10), R355-R356, 2007 | 189 | 2007 |
| Functionally referential communication in mammals: the past, present and the future SW Townsend, MB Manser Ethology 119 (1), 1-11, 2013 | 178 | 2013 |
| Chimpanzee food calls are directed at specific individuals AM Schel, Z Machanda, SW Townsend, K Zuberbühler, KE Slocombe Animal behaviour 86 (5), 955-965, 2013 | 162 | 2013 |
| Language evolution: syntax before phonology? K Collier, B Bickel, CP van Schaik, MB Manser, SW Townsend Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281 (1788), 20140263, 2014 | 141 | 2014 |
| Meaningful call combinations and compositional processing in the southern pied babbler S Engesser, AR Ridley, SW Townsend Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113 (21), 5976-5981, 2016 | 138 | 2016 |
| Multimodal communication and language origins: integrating gestures and vocalizations M Fröhlich, C Sievers, SW Townsend, T Gruber, CP van Schaik Biological Reviews 94 (5), 1809-1829, 2019 | 137 | 2019 |
| Production of food-associated calls in wild male chimpanzees is dependent on the composition of the audience KE Slocombe, T Kaller, L Turman, SW Townsend, S Papworth, P Squibbs, ... Behavioral ecology and sociobiology 64, 1959-1966, 2010 | 136 | 2010 |
| Wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) distinguish between different scream types: evidence from a playback study KE Slocombe, SW Townsend, K Zuberbühler Animal cognition 12, 441-449, 2009 | 121 | 2009 |
| Compositionality in animals and humans SW Townsend, S Engesser, S Stoll, K Zuberbühler, B Bickel PLoS Biology 16 (8), e2006425, 2018 | 97 | 2018 |
| The function of nonlinear phenomena in meerkat alarm calls SW Townsend, MB Manser Biology Letters 7 (1), 47-49, 2011 | 94 | 2011 |
| Experimental evidence for phonemic contrasts in a nonhuman vocal system S Engesser, JMS Crane, JL Savage, AF Russell, SW Townsend PLoS biology 13 (6), e1002171, 2015 | 90 | 2015 |
| Combinatoriality in the vocal systems of nonhuman animals S Engesser, SW Townsend Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science 10 (4), e1493, 2019 | 87 | 2019 |
| Meerkat close calls encode group-specific signatures, but receivers fail to discriminate SW Townsend, LI Hollén, MB Manser Animal Behaviour 80 (1), 133-138, 2010 | 81 | 2010 |
| A simple test of vocal individual recognition in wild meerkats SW Townsend, C Allen, MB Manser Biology letters 8 (2), 179-182, 2012 | 73 | 2012 |
| All clear? Meerkats attend to contextual information in close calls to coordinate vigilance SW Townsend, M Zöttl, MB Manser Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 65, 1927-1934, 2011 | 65 | 2011 |
| Audience effects in chimpanzee copulation calls SW Townsend, K Zuberbuhler Communicative & integrative biology 2 (3), 282-284, 2009 | 58 | 2009 |
