Symposia
- Perinatal Influences on Development and Behavior
- Female competition for breeding resources: traits, mechanisms and modes of selection
- Does Social Complexity Influence Communicative Complexity?
- Geographic Variation in Behavior
- The Effects of Sensory Pollution on Animal Behaviour and Survival
- Sensory Neuroecology of Animal Behavior: Novel Insights from Novel Systems
- What do animal signals mean?
- Convergence of Social Complexity in Mammals and Birds
- Cognition as Foraging: Search in Internal and External Environments
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- Perinatal Influences on Development and Behavior
Organizers: Jean Geary Boal, Ludovic Dickel
Speakers:- Peter Hepper: Comparative analysis of pre-natal learning – from fish to primates
- Robert Lickliter: Prenatal sensory experience and postnatal perceptual preferences
- Ton G.G. Groothuis: Perinatal maternal effects on the development of personality in oviparous and placental species
- Benoist Schaal: Exuberant odor learning in new-born mammals : a comparative study
- Sophie Lumineau, Cecilia Houdelier, & Marie-Annick Richard: Non genomic influences on behavioral development in birds: pre- and post-natal maternal effects.
- Gérard Coureaud: How newborns perceive complexity: the nose capacities.
- Maud C.O. Ferrari & Douglas P. Chivers: Embryonic learning and the ghost of predation future.
- Jean G. Boal, A-S. Darmaillacq, L. Dickel: Embryonic learning about prey by predators: evidence from cephalopods.
- Female competition for breeding resources: traits, mechanisms and modes of selection
Organizers: Kristal Cain, Kimberly Rosvall
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Speakers:- Trond Amundsen – Operational sex ratios and female competition in gobies: when males get scarce, the females get horny
- Jakob Bro-Jørgensen – Female mate competition in mammals
- Christine M. Drea – Feisty females: Understanding the behavioral, anatomical, neuroendocrine, and olfactory attributes of female-dominant lemurs
- Darryl Gwynne – Female ornaments and reversed sexual selection
- Kimberly A. Rosvall and Kristal E. Cain – Proximate mechanisms and ultimate consequences of female competition: from gene expression to reproductive success
- Geoff While – Female aggression and the evolutionary ecology of social systems
- Does Social Complexity Influence Communicative Complexity?
Organizers: Todd M. Freeberg, Indrikis Krams, Cecilia Kullberg
Speakers:- Seth Dobson: Facial expressions in primates
- Robin Dunbar: The link to human language origins
- Freeberg, Krams, & Kullberg: Vocal signaling in birds
- Kim Pollard & Daniel Blumstein: Evolving communicative complexity: sciurids as a model system
- Laura May-Collado: Vocal signaling in cetaceans
- Javier del Barco-Trillo & Christine Drea: Eulemur, me lemur: species signatures, signal complexity, and information content in the scent secretions of a primate clade
- Geographic Variation in Behavior
Organizers: Caitlin Gabor, Andrea Aspbury
Speakers:- Caitlin Gabor and Andrea Aspbury: Geographic variation in mate choice in a unisexual-bisexual species complex: are populations consistent?
- Rafael Rodríguez: Genetic variation and phenotypic plasticity across environments in relation to sexual selection in insects
- Susan Foster: Behavioral plasticity and the evolution of ecotypic variation in an adaptive radiation
- Carl Gerhardt: Geographic variation in frog mating preferences
- Gábor Herczeg: Adaptations to island environments in fish: population divergence in behaviour morphology and life-history
- Heike Pröhl: Morphological and behavioral variation in Oophaga species (poison frogs from Costa Rica and Panama)
- Brian Langerhans: Ecological speciation with magic traits
- The Effects of Sensory Pollution on Animal Behaviour and Survival
Organizers: Cordula V. Mora, Sheryl Coombs, Björn M. Siemers
Speakers:- Henrik Brumm: Acoustic communication in the presence of noise.
- Arthur Popper: Effects of noise pollution on fish behaviour and physiology.
- Sidney Gauthreaux: Ecological consequences of artificial night lighting for night-migrating birds.
- Gábor Horváth: Effects of polarized light pollution on insect and bird behaviour.
- Richard Brill: Sensory-based conservation strategies to reduce by-catch in the fishing industry.
- Danielle Dixson: Ocean acidification due to increased CO2-levels and its effect on fish behaviour and survival as a consequence of impaired chemoreception.
- Sensory Neuroecology of Animal Behavior: Novel Insights from Novel Systems
Organizers: Peter M. Narins
Speakers:- Albert Feng: Getting over background noise: Mechanisms underlying acoustic communication in adverse environments
- Kenneth Lohmann: The maps, compasses, and sensory biology of Sea Turtle navigation
- Cindy Moss: Navigating a complex environment by echolocation in bats
- Roger Hanlon: The behavioral ecology of visually controlled rapid adaptive camouflage in cephalopods
- Molly Cummings: Sensory drive in Surfperch: How the environment successful predicts divergence in communication traits in complex habitats
- Peter M. Narins: Ground sound detection in golden moles: Compensating for reduced vision with geophone ears
- What do animal signals mean?
Organizer: Mike J. Ryan
Speakers:- W. Tecumseh Fitch: bioacoustics and bio-linguistics, specifically the evolution of speech, language and music.
- Drew Rendall & Michael Owren: vocal communication and cognition in primates and humans
- Thomas Scott-Phillips: origins and evolution of language and communication, using computational and mathematical modelling techniques
- William Searcy & Steve Nowicki: avian communication.
- Dorothy Cheney & Robert Seyfarth: primate communication in the wild. Referential communication in the alarm calls in vervet monkeys. Cognitive abilities of non-human primates.
- Eugene Morton: An informational perspective on animal communication.
- Convergence of Social Complexity in Mammals and Birds
Organizers: Isabella B. R. Scheiber & Thomas Bugnyar
Speakers:- Thomas Bugnyar: Raven politics: Knowledge and use of social relationships
- Kathleen Dudzinski: Development and Reciprocity in Pectoral Fin Contact between Dolphins
- Kay Holekamp: Cooperation within the social networks of spotted hyena clans
- Jan Komdeur: Structure and functioning in avian societies
- Marta Manser: Coordination and communication in mammals with different social structure: a comparison of mongoose species
- Isabella Scheiber: Social complexity and socio-cognitive abilities in greylag geese
- Cognition as Foraging: Search in Internal and External Environments
Organizers: Peter M. Todd & Thomas Hills
Speakers:- Peter M. Todd: introduction and comparison of mechanisms for internal (mental) and external (spatial and social) foraging for resources.
- Thomas H. Hills: evolution of cognition as a foraging process, foraging theory applied to search in problem-solving and memory
- Andreas Wilke: choosing between environments with aggregated and dispersed resource patch distributions.
- Hansjörg Neth: patch-leaving decision heuristics for searching among patches of semantic concepts in memory.
- Wai-Tat Fu: optimal and heuristic strategies for information foraging on the World Wide Web.
- Todd M. Gureckis: empirical studies and cognitive modeling of human search processes, and investigation of exploration/exploitation tradeoffs in foraging for information and rewards.
