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DESCRIPTION:This first round table focused on the role that ethnicity plays in academia. Four researchers at different stages of their career shared their personal experience around this topic and answered two questions: “how does ethnicity impact prospects of an academic career?” and “what can be done to make academia more inclusive?”.
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ORGANIZER: Animal Behaviour Live
SUMMARY:The role that ethnicity plays in academia
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URL:http://animalbehaviour.live/events/the-role-that-ethnicity-plays-in-academia
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CATEGORIES:seminar
DESCRIPTION:Insects share many basic cognitive and perceptual mechanisms with us. On the one hand\, this makes them ‘smarter’ than commonly expected. On the other\, it means that they can be fooled by the same cognitive tricks which work on us. For example\, many retailers use the behavioural economic manipulation of ‘bundling’ to manipulate us into buying more. This simple trick involves putting many small prices together into one total\, which is then perceived as smaller than the sum of all the small prices separately. We tested this bundling effect on ants\, and found that ants indeed like rewards less – as measured by pheromone deposition - if the cost of reaching them was split over three stages\, rather than all paid in one go. However\, while apparent liking was affected\, subsequent choice was not. This may tell us something fundamental about how travel costs are uniquely perceived by ants. When travelling\, ants often encounter other ants on the trail. These nestmates are a valuable source of information – especially if the ants could use this information to learn about the state of the world in distant locations. For example\, encountering many ants returning from a food source known to have a limited capacity may imply that this food source should be avoided. Amazingly\, outgoing ants do strongly respond to meeting returning ants\, but only if the food source they encountered had a limited capacity. The ants seem to perform forward mental time travel\, inferring that one feeder might be overexploited when they will arrive\, even though they have never experienced this feeder as over-exploited. This suggests a truly unexpected level of cognitive sophistication. This sort of research\, from our own group and others\, is forcing us to re-evaluate how we imagine the inner lives of insects. Insects are much more than simple automata\, and may in many ways be more similar to us than usually supposed.
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ORGANIZER: Animal Behaviour Live
SUMMARY:Simple tricks to fool smart ants
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URL:http://animalbehaviour.live/events/simple-tricks-to-fool-smart-ants
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CATEGORIES:roundtable
DESCRIPTION:Our expert guests on the topic of women in science are Dr Kathleen Grogan who wrote "How the entire scientific community can confront gender bias in the workplace" and Dr Britta Glennon who co-authored "Women are credited less in science than men". Our next panellists are Dr Deyatima Ghosh\, Visiting Fellow at the University of Lincoln (UK) and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology & the Environment (India)\, and Tamzin Barber\, Director and Vice President of Dolphin Research Australia\, who have been invited to share their personal experiences of the barriers they may have faced during their careers as women in science. Our panellists are invited to share their experiences\, opinions and knowledge around these two main questions: 1) How does gender impact prospects of an academic career? 2) What can be done to make academia more inclusive?
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ORGANIZER: Animal Behaviour Live
SUMMARY:Women in science
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URL:http://animalbehaviour.live/events/women-in-science
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CATEGORIES:seminar
DESCRIPTION:Animal welfare research demonstrates that behavior is significantly influenced by an animal’s subjective experiences. Thus\, understanding an animal's welfare can help understand its behavior and vice versa. Animal welfare science frequently uses behavioral data to assess the welfare of animals\, but has traditionally focused on companion or farmed animals. While the behavior of free-ranging wild animals is well studied\, currently studies seeking to also understand their welfare are rare. The emerging science of wild animal welfare fills this gap by understanding how wild animals experience life\, and investigating whether humans can do anything to improve their welfare. In this Animal Behavior Live Seminar\, we will introduce the fundamental principles of wild animal welfare science\, and demonstrate its importance for animal behavior research. Through a variety of case studies\, speakers will demonstrate the interconnectedness between welfare and behavior\, including the relationship between behavior and subjective experience\, and several ways in which behavioral data is being used to evaluate wild animal welfare. Finally\, we will explore  opportunities and offer suggestions for how to integrate welfare assessments into existing behavioral ecology research on wild animals.
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ORGANIZER: Animal Behaviour Live
SUMMARY:Understanding animals: behavior and welfare entangled
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URL:http://animalbehaviour.live/events/understanding-animals-behavior-and-welfare-entangled
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CATEGORIES:roundtable
DESCRIPTION:Our expert guest on the role of our socioeconomic background in academia is Prof. Aaron Clauset who co-wrote "Socioeconomic roots of academic faculty". Our next panellists are Dr. Anyelet Valencia-Aguilar\, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Bern\, and Grey Fernandez\, Services Coordinator at Wild Animal Initiative\, who have been invited to share their personal experiences of the barriers they have faced during their careers. Our panellists are invited to share their experiences\, opinions and knowledge around these two main questions: 1) How does socioeconomic background impact prospects of an academic career? 2) What can be done to make academia more inclusive?
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ORGANIZER: Animal Behaviour Live
SUMMARY:Socioeconomic background in academia
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URL:http://animalbehaviour.live/events/socioeconomic-background-in-academia
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CATEGORIES:seminar
DESCRIPTION:The relationship between chemosensory abilities and task division has been poorly studied in stingless bees. I examined odor reception and sugar responsiveness of the social stingless bee *Tetragonisca angustula*\, focusing on workers involved in different tasks. Using the proboscis extension response\, I evaluated sucrose response thresholds (SRTs) of foragers and guards. Additionally\, I studied the response thresholds of foragers to glucose and fructose. Peripheral responses to odors at the antennae of foragers and guards were recorded by electroantennography (EAG). Besides\, I quantified and described the number and type of sensilla present on the antennae of those bee groups using scanning electron microscopy. I found that foragers’ SRTs changed according to the resource collected: nonpollen foragers (NPF) showed higher SRTs than pollen foragers (PF) and guards\, which showed similar sucrose responsiveness. Also\, pollen foragers showed different response thresholds according to the type of sugar offered (sucrose > glucose > fructose)\, while both NPF and PF presented a lower response to fructose compared to sucrose and glucose. EAG signal strength of both foragers and guards increased with increasing odor concentration. Interestingly\, guard bees showed the highest response to citral\, an odor that triggers defensive behavior in *T. angustula*. The type and number of sensilla present in the antennae of guards and foragers were similar. These results suggest that differences found in chemosensory responses among worker subcastes are task dependent and might be involved in regulating the division of labor.
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ORGANIZER: Animal Behaviour Live
SUMMARY:Chemosensory reception and task division in stingless bees
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URL:http://animalbehaviour.live/events/chemosensory-reception-and-task-division-in-stingless-bees
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CATEGORIES:seminar
DESCRIPTION:Most organisms are at some point faced with decisions such as who to mate with\, where to live or what to eat. Most models of decision-making assume that the presence of ‘irrelevant’ items such as inferior or unavailable items will not affect an individual’s preference for other items in the choice set. However\, an increasing body of literature suggests that humans and other organisms are susceptible to ‘decoy effects’ where the presence of low value items drastically changes or even reverses preferences for other items in the choice set.

In this talk we will discuss evidence for the decoy effect in a range of very different organisms: from unicellular slime mould amoebas to foraging possums to colonies of  honeybees\, stingless bees\, and bumblebees. We show that decoy effects are taxonomically widespread\, however\, the conditions under which they occur remain unclear. We'll delve into the question of whether decoy effects are merely artifacts of contrived experimental setups or if they can genuinely occur in natural settings. Last\, we will discuss the potential implications of decoy effects on the design and interpretation of experiments.
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ORGANIZER: Animal Behaviour Live
SUMMARY:Bees and Blobs: exploring the decoy effect in bee colonies and giant amoebas
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URL:http://animalbehaviour.live/events/bees-and-blobs-exploring-the-decoy-effect-in-bee-colonies-and-giant-amoebas
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CATEGORIES:seminar
DESCRIPTION:During social evolution\, ants have adapted their social lifestyle by developing an efficient division of labour and defending their societies against endo- and social parasites. They have evolved many different lifestyles\, from the small *Temnothorax* colonies consisting of only a few dozen individuals to the multi-million member societies of leafcutter ants\, from altruistic behaviours to various forms of social parasitism. Social insects are prime examples of phenotypic plasticity and can respond dynamically to changes in their social environment. We will present results on the evolution and molecular regulation of the complex behaviours of *Temnothorax* ants\, including how parasites manipulate their behaviour. We demonstrate that ants infected with a parasitic cestode are not only less active\, but also do not flee when attacked\, which facilitates transmission to the final host\, woodpeckers. These parasitized ants also live much longer\, and we investigate the release of parasitic proteins into the haemolymph of infected ants\, the functions of which are related to lifespan extension\, and changes in behaviour and gene expression. We show that the division of labour between workers is associated with differential gene expression mainly in the antennae and less in the brain. Indeed\, brood care behaviour is controlled by a candidate gene\, vitellogenin-like A\, whose RNAi-mediated down-regulation leads to differential responsiveness to social (chemical) cues\, suggesting an important role of olfaction in regulating task division. We reveal how these ants have evolved complex defence portfolios against the raids of socially parasitic ants and which behavioural and molecular changes have enabled the evolution of these fascinating parasitic lifestyles.
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ORGANIZER: Animal Behaviour Live
SUMMARY:The evolution, parasitic exploitation and molecular regulation of social behaviours in Temnothorax ants
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URL:http://animalbehaviour.live/events/the-evolution-parasitic-exploitation-and-molecular-regulation-of-social-behaviours-in-temnothorax-ants
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CATEGORIES:seminar
DESCRIPTION:
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ORGANIZER: Animal Behaviour Live
SUMMARY:Transitions in the Study of Social Evolution in Reef Fish Societies
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URL:http://animalbehaviour.live/events/transitions-in-the-study-of-social-evolution-in-reef-fish-societies
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CATEGORIES:seminar
DESCRIPTION:Understanding the causes and consequences of variation in social organization is a fundamental goal of behavioral biology. Studies of subterranean rodents have played a prominent role in these analyses due to their marked diversity in social organization\, with species ranging from solitary to eusocial. While the extreme social behavior of African mole-rats is now well known\, other lineages of subterranean rodents remain poorly characterized\, thereby hampering opportunities for comparative analyses across convergent examples of life in underground burrows. Using data drawn from ongoing field studies of tuco-tucos (Rodentia: Ctenomyidae)\, I describe our growing understanding of variation in social organization among members of this South American radiation and I identify several contrasts between tuco-tucos and African mole-rats\, further study of which promises to generate new insights into the adaptive bases for variability in mammalian social organizations.
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ORGANIZER: Animal Behaviour Live
SUMMARY:Digging in: What are tucos-tucos revealing about subterranean sociality?
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URL:http://animalbehaviour.live/events/digging-in-what-are-tucos-tucos-revealing-about-subterranean-sociality
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CATEGORIES:seminar
DESCRIPTION:Male crickets and katydids produce loud acoustic signals or calling songs to attract conspecific females from a distance. These signals contain information on species identity\, mate location and quality\, opening up the possibility of female choice based on acoustic signals. Using a tree cricket species\, male signalling and female choice were examined from a sensory ecological perspective. Females preferred larger and louder males. An interesting alternative signalling strategy used by males of this species is to build acoustic amplifiers using leaves that increase call loudness: this is shown to be a condition-dependent strategy used by disadvantaged males. Finally\, the costs of acoustic signalling by males and searching by females are examined and contrasted in two predator-prey systems: tree crickets and their spider predators\, and katydids eaten by predatory bats.
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ORGANIZER: Animal Behaviour Live
SUMMARY:Song, Flight and Death: Benefits and costs of acoustic communication in crickets and katydids
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URL:http://animalbehaviour.live/events/song-flight-and-death-benefits-and-costs-of-acoustic-communication-in-crickets-and-katydids
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CATEGORIES:seminar
DESCRIPTION:The two major ecotypes of Nigerian indigenous chickens are Fulani and Yoruba ecotypes. The Nigerian indigenous hens exhibit their natural behaviour repertoire\, including maternal care. There is a strong bond between the hen and her chicks. Thereby making the importance of maternal care in chickens very essential. Chicks raised without a mother are more fearful and aggressive. The presence of the mother helps to mediate the chicks' responses to stress. Reports on the behaviour of Nigerian indigenous chicks post-hatch are scanty. In this study\, we monitored the behaviour of the hens and their brood for the first four weeks post-hatch. The behaviours of interest were chick warming\, play-related (mother-chick and chick-chick play)\, aggression (mother trampling on chicks\, maternal aggression towards chicks\, mother pecking chicks)\, and oral-related (feeding\, drinking\, and foraging) behaviours. Ecotype had no influence on chick warming\, but aggressive and oral-related behaviours were greater in the Yoruba than in Fulani ecotype chickens.
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ORGANIZER: Animal Behaviour Live
SUMMARY:Differences in the post-hatch behaviour of two common Nigerian indigenous chicken ecotypes
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URL:http://animalbehaviour.live/events/differences-in-the-post-hatch-behaviour-of-two-common-nigerian-indigenous-chicken-ecotypes
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CATEGORIES:seminar
DESCRIPTION:During the last decades studies on spider behavior have flourished in Latin America. Spiders give us the possibility of intertwining elegant experiments in the laboratory with studies in the field. This animal group has a diverse array of conspicuous behavioral strategies during courtship\, mating and after mating\, in which females are decisive in determining the fate of sexual interactions. During the talk and after a brief historical introduction\, I will share representative examples of studies performed at the Neotropics aimed to test sexual selection hypotheses in spiders\, highlighting challenging areas for future research.
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ORGANIZER: Animal Behaviour Live
SUMMARY:Where beauty hides: spiders as models for elegant research and educational inspiration
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URL:http://animalbehaviour.live/events/where-beauty-hides-spiders-as-models-for-elegant-research-and-educational-inspiration
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CATEGORIES:roundtable
DESCRIPTION:Our panel members for this round table will be Dr Claire Hann\, Prof Ana Silva and Prof Stephen K. Boss. They will discuss and share their views on two main questions - How do aspects such as finances\, language barrier\, geographical location and other factors impact accessibility of international conferences? and What can be done to make conferences more accessible? and interact with attendees via the YouTube chat.

Dr Claire Hann is currently the Equality and Diversity Officer in the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford\, and has worked as a researcher in social sciences in both academia and public policy. In 2019 she co-authored a best-practice guide to organising inclusive conferences\, which has been widely used in higher education and the wider public and charity sectors in the UK and beyond.

Prof Ana Silva directs the Laboratory of Neuroscience of the School of Sciences at Universidad de la República\, Montevideo\, Uruguay. Her research focuses on understanding the neuroendocrine bases of social behavior in general\, and agonistic behavior in particular; as well as on the study of environmental and social pressures modulating the functioning of the biological clock. She is a member of IBRO Latin American Regional Committee and Chair of the Inclusion and Diversity Committee of the International Society for Neuroethology.

Prof Stephen K. Boss is Professor of Environmental Dynamics & Sustainability in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Arkansas\, USA. He holds a BS-Magna Cum Laude in Geology from Bemidji State University (Bemidji\, Minnesota)\, MS in Geology from Utah State University (Logan\, Utah)\, and PhD in Marine Sciences from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. From 2002-2015\, he served as director of the interdisciplinary doctoral program in Environmental Dynamics at the University of Arkansas. He was the architect of sustainability curricula at the University of Arkansas and from 2010-2015 also served as Director of Sustainability Academic Programs. Stephen considers himself an interdisciplinary scientist and has ongoing research interests in natural resource dynamics\, global agriculture\, global fisheries\, and equity and inclusion in the geosciences.
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ORGANIZER: Animal Behaviour Live
SUMMARY:The accessibility of international conferences
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URL:http://animalbehaviour.live/events/the-accessibility-of-international-conferences
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CATEGORIES:seminar
DESCRIPTION:Cohesion in social insect colonies is regulated by the use of chemical signals produced by the queen\, workers and brood. In honey bees\, signals from the queen are vital for the regulation of reproductive division of labour ensuring that the queen remains the only reproductive female in the colony. However\, even with this strict level of control\, workers can\, in principle by her\, activate their ovaries and lay eggs. In this talk\, we focus on an example of exception to the rule in the workers of the African Cape honey bee *Apis mellifera capensis* Eschscholtz\, where a single clonal lineage of this subspecies evolved into facultative parasites that actively seek out colonies of other honey bee subspecies\, invade and take over the role of reproduction in the presence of the resident queen. We will present the behavioural and physiological traits that accompany this fascinating behaviour specifically how the parasites exerts reproductive dominance and how the host queens regulate them.
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ORGANIZER: Animal Behaviour Live
SUMMARY:Fascinating anomalies: understanding social parasitism by an African honey bee clone
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URL:http://animalbehaviour.live/events/fascinating-anomalies-understanding-social-parasitism-by-an-african-honey-bee-clone
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CATEGORIES:seminar
DESCRIPTION:Sharks are often viewed as mindless killing machines; their inflexible behaviour driven by instinct. However recent studies investigating shark intelligence suggest that they are far more complex than previously thought. Here I present a summary of our recent work on shark cognition using Port Jackson sharks as a model species. Port Jackson sharks are capable of associating artificial noises (music) with food rewards and can be trained to move to a specific location when they hear the noise. Sharks can not only learn individually but can also learn from observing or interacting with others (social learning). Sharks are also capable of quantity discrimination and\, contrary to expectations\, this ability is actually enhanced under global warming scenarios. Finally\, we show that shark brains are lateralised much like the rest of the vertebrates. Laterality is associated with enhanced cognition and is also impacted by rearing embryos at increased temperatures. A better understanding of shark cognition helps us explore the driving forces behind shark behaviour and has implications for fisheries and animal welfare.
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ORGANIZER: Animal Behaviour Live
SUMMARY:Smart Sharks
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URL:http://animalbehaviour.live/events/smart-sharks
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CATEGORIES:seminar
DESCRIPTION:Neotropical primates are amazing subjects for behavioral studies. They vary in social organization and structure\, diet composition\, activity budget\, locomotion types\, habitat use and many other aspects. In this talk\, Bicca-Marques will begin by describing the goals and major findings of the research on primate behavior\, ecology\, cognition and conservation biology that has been developed over 20+ years by the members of the Laboratory of Primatology of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest\, Pampas\, Amazon Forest\, Cerrado and Caatinga biomes.

Then\, Sacramento will describe her field experiment on the social foraging of three free-ranging groups of black-tufted-ear marmosets (*Callithrix penicillata*) in the Cerrado of the National Park of Brasília in Central Brazil. Specifically\, she will discuss the influence of the finder’s share (the proportion of the resource that is consumed by the producer [first individual to arrive] of the feeding patch before the arrival of the latecomer scroungers) on the foraging strategy and feeding success of marmosets. She established one artificial feeding station within the home range of each study group and exposed the marmosets to two experimental conditions: low finder's share (few food-rich patches) and high finder's share (many food-poor patches).

Finally\, Lopes will explain her research on the behavioral strategies adopted by a group of Prince Bernhard’s titi monkeys (*Plecturocebus bernhardi*) to cope with fluctuations in the availability of preferred\, seasonal foods. Her study group inhabited a 2.3-ha forest fragment in the state of Rondônia in the Brazilian Amazon. In addition to recording the behavior of titi monkeys from dawn-to-dusk\, she monitored the phenology of the tree species to estimate the availability of fruits\, flowers and leaves and she used traps to estimate the availability of invertebrates.
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ORGANIZER: Animal Behaviour Live
SUMMARY:Studying the behavior of free-ranging Brazilian nonhuman primates
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URL:http://animalbehaviour.live/events/studying-the-behavior-of-free-ranging-brazilian-nonhuman-primates
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CATEGORIES:seminar
DESCRIPTION:Intrasexual competition\, the competition between individuals of a sex\, is known to result in the evolution of bizarre\, conspicuous\, sometimes dangerous\, often decorative traits. Our understanding of such competition derives primarily from males competing for mates. There is mounting evidence for widespread intrasexual competition in females. We are only beginning to discover the diverse range of ecological contexts in which female-female competition occurs. What can we learn from taxa as different as mosquitoes\, lizards and antelope? We present work from our group that attempts to decipher female-female competition in diverse ecological contexts: how females compete for mates on antelope leks\, how female lizards deploy multiple signals and aggression strategically during competition\, and how female mosquitoes adopt unexpected and seemingly dangerous tactics when competing for resources for their offspring. We discuss how due to key life history differences\, intrasexual competition is likely to favour traits in females that are quite different from those historically reported in males.
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ORGANIZER: Animal Behaviour Live
SUMMARY:Deciphering intrasexual competition in females: Lessons from antelope, lizards and mosquitoes
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URL:http://animalbehaviour.live/events/deciphering-intrasexual-competition-in-females-lessons-from-antelope-lizards-and-mosquitoes
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CATEGORIES:seminar
DESCRIPTION:Bees show striking abilities to decide where\, what\, and how to find food using both personal and social information. Diverse rules underlie these decisions. This talk will explore three foraging decisions by social bees. (1) How do stingless bees respond to heterospecific recruitment pheromone trails? (2) How do bumble bees use social information about nectar availability in complex ecologically communities? (3) How do bumble bees decide whether to “rob” a flower by feeding through holes at the base of flowers or visit “legitimately” at the flower’s opening? These three lines of investigation show that bee floral visitation patterns depend on surprisingly complex responses to information encoded in signals\, insect and plant traits\, and local ecological conditions. By integrating behavioural\, community and chemical ecology\, I determine mechanisms through which diverse ecological community members alter bee foraging.
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ORGANIZER: Animal Behaviour Live
SUMMARY:Eavesdroppers and robbers and spies, oh my! Decision-making by foraging bees
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URL:http://animalbehaviour.live/events/eavesdroppers-and-robbers-and-spies-oh-my-decision-making-by-foraging-bees
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CATEGORIES:roundtable
DESCRIPTION:Publication metrics are one of the many tools available to assess the impact of research\, while Open Access provides unrestricted access to research outputs. Maggie Symes and Sam Nesbit from the University of Sussex will present the publication metrics currently used in research and ways to make your work Open Access. This will be followed by a discussion of the uses and limitations of publication metrics and a look at some of the alternative metrics that can be used alongside more traditional publication metrics and other factors to assess research impact.
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DTEND:20240513T120000Z
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ORGANIZER: Animal Behaviour Live
SUMMARY:Open research and publication metrics
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URL:http://animalbehaviour.live/events/open-research-and-publication-metrics
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CATEGORIES:seminar
DESCRIPTION:Global declines in pollinator populations have been attributed to various\, often interacting\, environmental stressors. These include poor nutrition\, pesticides and disease. In this talk I will discuss how understanding bee behaviour can play a key role in both pollinator conservation and food security. I will present previous work investigating the impact of environmental stressors on bee behaviour\, including the use of harmonic radar to track bee flight and navigation and measuring the impact of pesticide exposure on bee learning and memory. I will also present ongoing work to understand the sensory and cognitive drivers of bee nutritional ecology\, which aims to better understand the implications of bee foraging choices for pollination\, with the ultimate goal of improving the management of agri-environments to maximise nutritional outcomes for both insects and humans.
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ORGANIZER: Animal Behaviour Live
SUMMARY:Bee-haviour to ‘Save the Bees’
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URL:http://animalbehaviour.live/events/bee-haviour-to-save-the-bees
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CATEGORIES:roundtable
DESCRIPTION:The dominant system of academic publishing today is highly unethical: A few for-profit conglomerates control more than 50% of all articles in the natural sciences and social sciences\, driving subscription and open-access publishing fees above levels that can be maintained by universities\, libraries\, and research institutions worldwide. These conglomerates are draining funds away from research\, producing record profits for shareholders\, and rewarding academics for hyper-competitive modes of thinking and acting. Additionally\, most of these publishing conglomerates have been recently documented to have strong ties to deeply destructive industries - like the fossil fuel industry - which are contributing to ongoing climate and ecological breakdown. Ethical alternatives to the for-profit commercial publishing model exist\, but how do we facilitate a transition towards them? In this talk\, I explain the reasons why the move away from unethical publishing can be enabled by collective action. I also link the academic publishing problem with other problems in the academy\, including artificial labour scarcity\, the increasing control of workers' behaviours by a predatory managerial class\, and a fixation on metrics\, productivity and growth. All of these problems are linked and feed on each other. Through collective action - including community initiatives\, protests\, boycotts\, and direct action - academics can organize to jointly "degrow" academia into a system that is radically more just\, ethical and care-full\, and that is more democratically administered by those who actually make it run.
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ORGANIZER: Animal Behaviour Live
SUMMARY:Facilitating ethical publishing (and degrowing academia) through collective action
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URL:http://animalbehaviour.live/events/facilitating-ethical-publishing-and-degrowing-academia-through-collective-action
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CATEGORIES:seminar
DESCRIPTION:Collective behaviours are fundamental to group-living. Research over the past two decades has revealed a myriad of ways that animal groups benefit from making collective decisions. However\, much less is known about the costs that participating in collective decision-making entails. Drawing from studies on vulturine guineafowl\, a large and terrestrial bird species endemic to east Africa\, I will show that groups make collective decisions through a voting-like process\, but that collective actions also induce distinct costs. These costs range from the energetic cost of movement through to physiological stress experienced by birds as they attempt to influence the behaviour of their group. These costs then raise the question of why animals live in groups\, especially in the vulturine guineafowl that forms a multilevel society where sets of groups interact with one-another. The answer to this question can be found in the severe drought that struck Kenya from 2020 to 2023\, during which time we could see a clear survival benefit arise for birds that expressed a multilevel social structure. Together\, these studies on vulturine guineafowl highlight how sociality is a fine and constantly changing balance of the costs of being in a group versus the benefits that group-living can provide\, and that these can arise at different timescales.
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ORGANIZER: Animal Behaviour Live
SUMMARY:The costs of collective behaviour
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URL:http://animalbehaviour.live/events/the-costs-of-collective-behaviour
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CATEGORIES:seminar
DESCRIPTION:Socioecological theory attempts to explain the diversity of animal societies by relating ecological circumstances (such as resource and risk distributions) to relationships within and between social groups. Long-term monitoring of individually-identified animals is essential for understanding the behaviour and social lives of animals and testing predictions from socioecological theory. We describe work from the Kabini Elephant Project\, which has been monitoring hundreds of Asian elephants in southern India. We describe our findings on female and male associations and agonism\, and tests of socioecological theory.
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ORGANIZER: Animal Behaviour Live
SUMMARY:Understanding Asian elephant socioecology from long-term monitoring in southern India.
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URL:http://animalbehaviour.live/events/understanding-asian-elephant-socioecology-from-long-term-monitoring-in-southern-india
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CATEGORIES:roundtable
DESCRIPTION:Early-career researchers face growing challenges around communication\, collaboration\, ethics\, and well-being — especially in demanding research fields such as animal science and public health. In this roundtable\, three expert speakers will share practical strategies to build strong communication skills\, foster resilience\, and develop meaningful scientific careers.
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ORGANIZER: Animal Behaviour Live
SUMMARY:Coaching early career scientists: Improving scientific communication
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URL:http://animalbehaviour.live/events/coaching-early-career-scientists-improving-scientific-communication
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CATEGORIES:seminar
DESCRIPTION:Leaf-cutting ants build the largest and most complex nest among ants\, composed of chambers for the maintenance of underground fungus gardens and the deposition of colony waste\, and conspicuous turrets for air exchanges. In my talk\, I will present experimental studies that explore the behavioural rules ants use while building\, their responses to relevant environmental variables such as CO2\, temperature\, and relative humidity\, and their use of social information\, which ultimately lead to the emergence of a nest architecture that provides a proper environment for colony growth.
DTSTART:20250729T140000Z
DTEND:20250729T150000Z
DTSTAMP:20260608T164132Z
ORGANIZER: Animal Behaviour Live
SUMMARY:Nest building and climate control in leaf-cutting ants: behavioural mechanisms and adaptive value
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URL:http://animalbehaviour.live/events/nest-building-and-climate-control-in-leaf-cutting-ants-behavioural-mechanisms-and-adaptive-value
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