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June 24 • Understanding Asian elephant socioecology from long-term monitoring in southern India. seminar elephant ecology social behaviour

Animal Behaviour Live: Seminar series is a series of seminars featuring researchers in animal behaviour from all over the world to promote the latest findings in our field.

Animal Behaviour Live: Round tables is a series of round tables gathering the animal behaviour community to discuss important matters in our field and in modern science. It is the opportunity to discuss and question our academic practices. Our 2024 Round Table Series focused on the theme Scientific publishing. We discussed factors and challenges acting on the publishing system that shapes contemporary science.

Seminars and Round tables are live streamed on YouTube, featuring experts and live interactions with attendees via the YouTube chat. Most of our past events are available on demand below. You can use the tags to filter for your interests.

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Past Events

2025

April 29 • The costs of collective behaviour seminar collective behaviour birds decision-making

2024

August 6 • Facilitating ethical publishing (and degrowing academia) through collective action roundtable academia scientific publishing collective action
June 25 • Bee-haviour to ‘Save the Bees’ seminar bees pesticides pollination cognition
May 13 • Open research and publication metrics roundtable academia open access scientific publishing
March 26 • Eavesdroppers and robbers and spies, oh my! Decision-making by foraging bees seminar bees decision-making behavioural ecology

2023

September 26 • Bees and Blobs: exploring the decoy effect in bee colonies and giant amoebas seminar bees blob decision-making
August 29 • Chemosensory reception and task division in stingless bees seminar bees
July 25 • Socioeconomic background in academia roundtable socioeconomic background academia
May 30 • Understanding animals: behavior and welfare entangled seminar welfare wild animals behavioural ecology
April 25 • Women in science roundtable women in science academia
March 28 • Simple tricks to fool smart ants seminar ants cognition swarm intelligence
January 31 • The role that ethnicity plays in academia roundtable ethnicity academia

2022

August 30 • Where beauty hides: spiders as models for elegant research and educational inspiration seminar spiders sexual selection behavioural ecology
July 26 • Differences in the post-hatch behaviour of two common Nigerian indigenous chicken ecotypes seminar chicken parental care welfare farming
June 28 • Song, Flight and Death: Benefits and costs of acoustic communication in crickets and katydids seminar crickets katydids mate choice behavioural ecology
May 31 • Digging in: What are tucos-tucos revealing about subterranean sociality? seminar rodents mammals sociality
April 26 • Transitions in the Study of Social Evolution in Reef Fish Societies seminar fish sociality behavioural ecology
March 29 • The evolution, parasitic exploitation and molecular regulation of social behaviours in Temnothorax ants seminar ants parasitism molecular regulation integrative biology

2021

September 28 • Deciphering intrasexual competition in females: Lessons from antelope, lizards and mosquitoes seminar antelopes lizards mosquitoes behavioural ecology intrasexual competition
August 27 • Studying the behavior of free-ranging Brazilian nonhuman primates seminar primates mammals
August 12 • Smart Sharks seminar fish shark cognition
May 28 • Fascinating anomalies: understanding social parasitism by an African honey bee clone seminar bees parasitism
January 29 • The accessibility of international conferences roundtable academia accessibility