Animal Behaviour Live 2024

We are glad to announce we will host our flagship annual online conference for the fifth time this year. The event will take place on the 4-5th of November 2024 and will be broadcast online on our YouTube channel for registered participants (save the date in your calendar).

Like the preceding years, the conference will be organised in 3 sessions per day to cover every time zone possible. During each session, we’ll have the pleasure to listen to one 45min plenary talk, as well as four 15 min presentations. It will also be possible to watch posters during the conference, on your own time, as well as during dedicated sessions. We will organise informal Meet the PI sessions as well as workshops during the conference. Finally, it will be possible to interact with the ABL community through a dedicated discord server during the entire conference.

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Registration

Registration: 15 May - 3 November 2024

If you are interested in attending the conference, please REGISTER HERE. The conference registration is FREE but registration is mandatory and only those registered will receive the link to attend the talks.

Programme

The preliminary program for #ABL2024 is now available! Download the PDF with the talk and poster sessions here or download the image of the talk sesssions below!

abl programme 2024
abl obline conference 2024 programme

Plenary speakers

Dr Audrey Dussutour

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Slime holds But Were Afraid to Ask

Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier University, CNRS, France

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Dr Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka

Conserving Gorillas through a One Health Approach

Conservation Through Public Health, Uganda

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Dr Sarah Benson-Amram

Cognition, behaviour, and ecology of urban carnivores

University of British Columbia, Canada

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Dr Aparajita Datta

Twenty-five years of understanding hornbills: hope and resilience in the Indian Eastern Himalaya

Nature Conservation Foundation, India

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Dr Walter Farina

Honey bee cognition in agricultural settings: how landscape and social behavior are affected each other

Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Dr Simon Ducatez

Adapting to a changing world: behavior at the forefront in birds and terrestrial crabs

Université de Polynésie Française, French Polynesia

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Workshops

Build your own insect-detecting AI camera trap!Maximilian Sittinger (German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research) and Michael Watson (CEO, Bee friendly)
Build your own insect-detecting AI camera trap!
Maximilian Sittinger (German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research) and Michael Watson (CEO, Bee friendly)
Invertebrates sentience: Evidence and Ethics Dr Andrew Crump, Lecturer in Animal Cognition & Welfare, Royal Veterinary College, London, UK
Invertebrates sentience: Evidence and Ethics
Dr Andrew Crump, Lecturer in Animal Cognition & Welfare, Royal Veterinary College, London, UK
From Evaluation to Legislation: Why Animal Welfare is Central Dr. Fay Clark (University of Bristol), Dr. Denis Bahati (Africa Network for Animal Welfare) and Dr. Heather Browning (University of Southampton)
From Evaluation to Legislation: Why Animal Welfare is Central
Dr. Fay Clark (University of Bristol), Dr. Denis Bahati (Africa Network for Animal Welfare) and Dr. Heather Browning (University of Southampton)

Funding

This year's conference is supported by The Company of Biologists’ Fund for Innovations in Sustainable Conferencing! We are planning to use this funding to explore how we can make the online conference more interactive and improve the networking opportunities for participants. We will also use part of it to improve the conference website and make it easier for participants to access all the details of the current and past editions of the conference in one place.

Feedback

We are continuously trying to make the conference more integrative and accessible. An important aspect of this is collecting information about who is benefitting from the conference. Please take a few minutes to fill out our pre-conference survey.

A sense of community

To ensure a great conference, attendees must read and follow the conference code of conduct.

To foster interactions between participants, we have created a Discord group for the conference. We are planning to make better use of Discord as a central hub for all conference related activities this year. You will be able to get updates regarding the conference, engage in some fun networking activities before the conference and discuss with presenters during the conference. Joining the group is as simple as clicking on the link you will get after you register for the conference! See you on Discord!

Communication Kit

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You can also download our flyer (click on the image to download the flyer) to spread out the word about the event in your University, Department and colleagues’ network.

Past editions

We have hosted one ABL Annual Online Conference edition per year since 2020. We are currently working on an archive system to make them accessible on our website; in the meantime access them on our YouTube channel: