Publications
14. Sahu, P. K., Garcia, A.D., Deimeke, M. J., Smeltz, S. M. L.,Stenstrom, K. H.,Curiston, P.,Okocha O.,& Sturdy, C. B. (2026). Vocal consistency is associated with auditory perceptual ability in a songbird.
iScience, 29(9). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2026.117219
13. Sahu, P. K., Nottebrock, K., Ratch, J., Smeltz, S. M. L., Stenstrom, K. H., Deimeke, M. J., & Sturdy, C. B. (2026). Differential response variability of black-capped chickadees to wingbeat sounds and vocalizations.
Biology Open, 15(6), bio062598. https://doi.org/10.1242/bio.062598
12. Stenstrom, K.H., Deimeke, M.J., Sahu, P.K., Smeltz, S.M.L., & Sturdy, C.B. (2026). What is rescue anyways: A comprehensive review of rescue and rescue adjacent behavior across taxa.
Animal Behavior and Cognition, 13(2), 197-213. https://doi.org/10.26451/abc.13.02.06.2026
11. Stenstrom, K.H., Deimeke, M.J., Sahu, P.K., Smeltz, S.M.L., & Sturdy, C.B. (2026). Risk versus reward: A systematic review on the threat mobbers face. Animal Behavior and Cognition, 13(2), 184-196.
https://doi.org/10.26451/abc.13.02.05.2026
10. Sahu, P.K., Deimeke, M.J., Garcia, A.D., Stenstrom, K.H., Smeltz, S.M.L., Wang, Y., Ratch, J., & Sturdy, C.B. (2026) Re-examining hidden fitness: Female preferences for long-path songs in
zebra finches. PLOS ONE, 21(3):e0343886,
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0343886
9. Sahu, P.K., Garcia, A.D., Stenstrom, K.H., Deimeke, M.J., Smeltz, S.M.L., Lank, I.J.,& Sturdy, C.B. (2025) A cost-effective Raspberry pi-based operant playback setup to evaluate auditory
preferences in songbirds. Behavioural Processes, 232, 105276,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2025.105276
8. Smeltz, S.M.L., Deimeke, M.J., Montenegro, C., Sahu, P.K., Stenstrom, K.H., Camacho-Alpizar, A., & Sturdy, C.B. (2025) Individual discrimination within, but not between, two vocalization types
of the black-capped chickadee. Ethology, e13572,
https://doi.org/10.1111/eth.13572
7. Smeltz, S.M.L., Deimeke, M.J., Sahu, P.K., Montenegro, C., Stenstrom, K.H., Starenchak, I., Rennie, V., Ebrahim, I.M., Jones, J.A., & Sturdy, C.B. (2025) Individual vocal identity may be obscured
following colony assembly in captive black-capped chickadees. Behavioural Processes, 225,105151,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2025.105151
6. Sahu, P.K., Montenegro, C., Lambert, C.T., Oprea, A., Deimeke, M.J., Rennie, V., Smeltz, S.M.L, Benowicz, T.J., Patel, D., Phillmore, L.S., & Sturdy, C.B. (2022) Effect of feed-time
duration on discrimination of vocalizations in a go/no-go operant paradigm, Behavioural Processes, 203, 104777,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2022.104777
5. Sahu, P.K., Campbell, K.A., Oprea, A., Phillmore, L.S., & Sturdy, C.B. (2022) Comparing
methodologies for classification of zebra finch distance calls, The Journal of the Acoustical Society
of America, 151, 3305, https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0011401
4. Lambert, C., Sahu, P.K. , Sturdy, C.B., & Guillette, L.M. (2022) Among-individual differences in
auditory and physical cognitive abilities in zebra finches, Learning & Behaviour, 50(3), 389-404, https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-022-00520-w
3. Montenegro, C., Sahu, P.K., & Sturdy, C.B.(2021). Individual differences in female black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) fee-bee songs,The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America,
150(4), 3038-3046, https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0006532
2. Montenegro, C., Service, W.D., Scully, E.N., Mischler, S.K., Sahu, P.K., Benowicz, T.J., Fox,
K.V. R.,& Sturdy, C.B.(2021). The impact of anthropogenic noise on individual identification via
female song in Black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus), Scientific Reports, 11(1),
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-96504-3
1.Sahu, P.K., Kolay, S. & Annagiri, S.(2019) To reunite or not: A study of artificially fragmented
Diacamma indicum ant colonies, Behavioural Processes 158, 4-10, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2018.10.017