Dr. Désirée Brucks
desiree.brucks@agrar.uni-giessen.de
Phone: +49 641 99 37647
OCRID: 0000-0003-3146-5110
Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Desiree_Brucks
Curriculum Vitae
| Since 2020 |
PostDoc, Department of Animal Husbandry, Behaviour, and Welfare University of Giessen, Germany |
| 2019-2020 |
PostDoc, Institute of Agricultural Sciences ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2018-2019 |
PostDoc, Comparative Cognition Research Group Max-Planck-Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany |
| 2013-2017 |
Ph.D. Comparative Cognition, Messerli Research Institute University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria |
| 2010-2012 |
M.Sc. Behavioural Biology University of Göttingen, Germany |
| 2007-2010 |
B.Sc. Biology University of Göttingen, Germany |
Research Interests
- Comparative cognition in domestic and wild species
- Cognition of farm animals (i.e. pigs und camelids)
- Social cognition and human-animal interactions
- Animal welfare
Publications
Brucks D, Essler JL, Marshall-Pescini S & Range F. (2016). Inequity aversion negatively
affects tolerance and contact-seeking behaviours towards partner and experimenter.
PLoS One 11(4): e0153799.
Brucks D, Marshall-Pescini S, Essler JL, McGetrick J, Huber L & Range F. (2017) What are
the ingredients for an inequity paradigm? Manipulating the experimenter’s
involvement in an inequity task with dogs. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 270.
Brucks D, Soliani M, Range F & Marshall-Pescini S. (2017). Reward type and behavioural
patterns predict dogs’ success in a delay of gratification task. Scientific Reports, 7, 42459.
Brucks D, Marshall-Pescini S, Wallis L, Huber L & Range F. (2017). Measures of dogs’
inhibitory control abilities do not correlate across tasks. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 849.
Brucks D, Marshall-Pescini S & Range F. (2017) Dogs’ reaction to inequity is affected by
inhibitory control. Scientific Reports, 7, 15802.
Brucks D, Marshall-Pescini S & Range F. (2018) Dogs and wolves do not differ in their
inhibitory control abilities in a non-social test battery. Animal Cognition, 22, 1-15.
Tassin de Montaigu C, Durdevic K, Brucks D, Krasheninnikova A & von Bayern A. (2019)
Blue-throated macaws (Ara glaucogularis) succeed in a cooperative task despite
coordinating their actions. Ethology, 126, 267-277.
Krasheninnikova A, Brucks D, Blanc S & von Bayern A. (2019) Assessing African grey
parrots’ prosocial tendencies in a token choice paradigm. Royal Society Open
Science, 6, 190696.
Krasheninnikova A, Brucks D, Buffenoir N, Rivas Blanco D, Soulet D & von Bayern A.
(2019) Parrots do not show inequity aversion in a modified token exchange
paradigm. Scientific Reports, 9, 16416.
Brucks D & von Bayern A. (2020) Parrots voluntarily help each other to obtain food rewards.
Current Biology, 30, 292-297.
Range F, Brucks D & Virányi Z. (2020) Dogs wait longer for better rewards than wolves in a
delay of gratification task: but why? Animal Cognition, 23, 443-453.
McGetrick J, Brucks D, Marshall-Pescini S & Range F. (2020) No evidence for a
relationship between breed cooperativeness and inequity aversion in dogs. PLoS
One, 15 (6), e0233067.
Brucks D, Petelle M, Baldoni C, Krasheninnikova A, Rovegno E & von Bayern, AMP. (2021)
Intra‑ and interspecific variation in self‑control capacities of parrots in a delay of gratification
task. Animal Cognition.
Brucks D, Drews B & Ulbrich S. (2022) Exploring the social network of European roe deer
(Capreolus capreolus) in captivity. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 246, 105526.