Seminar Series
Seminars
The Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour hosts a series of seminars. All are welcome.
All seminars can be watched with members of the department or via Zoom.
If the speaker presents in person the room number is first. If the speaker presents via Zoom the room number is shown in brackets.
Find out more about the seminars since 2008.
Other seminar series that may be of interest:
- Psychology School seminars.
- Mood Disorders Centre Think Tank seminars
- Cognition Research Group seminars: Tuesdays, 1pm in Room 105 Washington Singer
- Biosciences research seminars in Exeter and Cornwall.
2023-24
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When |
Speaker |
Title |
Where |
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Friday, October 6, 2023 13:30 |
Natalie Hempel de Ibarra (Exeter)
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WSL025 (& Zoom) |
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Friday, October 20, 2023 13:30 |
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WSL105 (& Zoom) |
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Friday, October 27, 2023 13:30 |
Stephen Lea (Exeter)
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What can "plant cognition" tell us about how to study animal cognition?
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WSL105 (& Zoom) |
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Friday, November 10, 2023 13:30 |
Thomas O'Shea-Wheller (Exeter) |
Quantifying the Impact of an Invasive Hornet on Bumble Bee Colonies |
WSL105 (& Zoom) |
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Friday, November 17, 2023 13:30 |
Dan Rubinstein (Princeton)
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Climate and land use change: How will equids be impacted? |
WSL105 (& Zoom) |
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Friday, November 24, 2023 13:30 |
Michael Weiss (Exeter)
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Killer whales |
WSL105 (& Zoom) |
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Friday, December 1, 2023 13:30 |
Baptiste Sadoughi (Arizona State) |
Aging in macaques: the dynamic dance of sociality and physiology |
WSL105 (& Zoom) |
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Friday, December 8, 2023 13:30 |
Amy Morris-Drake (Bristol) |
Consequences of conflict in dwarf mongooses |
WSL105 (& Zoom) |
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Friday, January 19, 2024 13:30 |
Dr. Alba Motes Rodrigo |
Drivers of individual behavioral diversity: Case studies from ants |
WSL105 (& Zoom) |
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Friday, January 26, 2024 13:30 |
Dr Lauren Nadler |
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WSL105 (& Zoom) |
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Friday, February 2, 2024 13:30 |
Dr. Livia Gerber |
Searching for the glue that binds: What explains cooperation in male bottlenose dolphins? |
Zoom (& WSL105) |
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Friday, February 9, 2024 13:30 |
Dr Christoph Netz |
Division of labour in cooperative breeders |
WSL105 (& Zoom) |
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Friday, February 16, 2024 13:30 |
Dr Beth Mortimer |
Information gathering via material-bound vibrations |
WSL105 (& Zoom) |
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Friday, February 23, 2024 13:30 |
Dr Mariana Bentosela |
Dog-owner interactions |
Zoom (& WSL105) |
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Friday, March 1, 2024 13:30 |
Pia Böhm & Angela Stojan |
Rethinking Behavioural Observations – a direct comparison of sampling method performance |
Zoom (& WSL105) |
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Friday, March 8, 2024 13:30 |
Conner Philson |
Fitness correlates of marmot social networks |
WSL105 (& Zoom) |
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Friday, March 15, 2024 13:30 |
Yoonjung Yi |
something about gibbon behaviour (& maybe some mongoose stuff) |
WSL105 (& Zoom) |
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Friday, March 22, 2024 13:30 |
Dr. Sharmini Julita Paramasivam |
Animal Neighbours project |
WSL105 (& Zoom) |
2022-23
| When | Speaker | Title | Where |
| Friday 07 October 2022 13.30 | Sam Ellis (Exeter) | Insights into the evolution of menopause from a comparative study of cetaceans | WSL028 (& Zoom) |
| Friday 14 October 2022 13.30 | - | ||
| Friday 21 October 2022 13.30 | Mark Hauber (U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign) | Species recognition in brood parasites and their hosts |
Zoom (& WSL025) |
| Friday 28 October 2022 13.30 | Krishna Balasubamaniam (Anglia Ruskin U.) | Unravelling the links between animal social structure, human-wildlife interactions, & infectious disease ecology: insights from macaques | WSL025 (& Zoom) |
| Friday 04 November 2022 13.30 | - | ||
| Friday 11 November 2022 13.30 | Steve Portugal (RHUL) | The social dynamics and energetics of flocking in birds | WSL237 (& Zoom) |
| Friday 18 November 2022 13.30 | |||
| Friday 25 November 2022 13.30 | Beth Mortimer (U. Oxford) | POSTPONED DUE TO STRIKES | WSL025 (& Zoom) |
| Friday 02 December 2022 13.30 | Ayse Yilmaz (Lund U.) | The nature of directional memories in a model species that ignores distance travelled | Zoom (& WSL025) |
| Friday 09 December 2022 13.30 | Nathan Morehouse (U. Cincinnati) | The Evolution of Looking and Seeing: New Insights from Colorful Jumping Spiders | Zoom (&WSL025) |
| Friday 13 January 2023 13.30 | Sonja Wild (UC Davis) | When, who and what to copy: Social learning strategies in wild animals | WSL105 (& Zoom) |
| Friday 20 January 2023 13.30 | Lysanne Snijders (U. Wageningen) | Social dynamics going wild – insights from novel technology and traditional observation | WSL025 (& Zoom) |
| Friday 27 January 2023 13.30 | Jordan Anderson (U. Oregon) | Insights from applying genomic tools to long-term research on social mammals. | Zoom (& WSL105) |
| Friday 03 February 2023 13.30 | Dieter Lukas (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) | Physical and social environment in shaping mammalian behaviour | Zoom (& WSL105) |
| Friday 10 February 2023 13.30 | Brett Frye (Emory & Henry College) | CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE | Zoom (& WSL105) |
| Friday 17 February 2023 13.30 | Livia Gerber (U. NSW Sydney) | CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS | Zoom (& WSL105) |
| Friday 24 February 2023 13.30 | Mark Dyble (UCL) | The evolution of human sociality: insights from hunter-gatherers, computer simulations, and meerkats. | WSL105 (& Zoom) |
| Friday 03 March 2023 13.30 | Steve Montgomery (U. Bristol) | Social evolution, probably in caterpillars | WSL10 (& Zoom) |
| Friday 10 March 2023 15:00 | Gail Patricelli (UC Davis) | Robots, Telemetry, & the Sex Lives of Wild Birds: Using technology to study courtship and conservation | Zoom (& WSL105) |
| Friday 17 March 2023 13.30 | Valéria Romano (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, IRD) | Zoom (& WSL105) | |
| Friday 24 March 2023 13.30 | Jo Edgar (U. Bristol) | Chick welfare | WSL105 (& Zoom) |
2021-22
| When | Speaker | Title | Where |
| Friday 08 October 2021 13.30 | Eithne Kavanagh (Nottingham Trent U.) | Dominance and communication in human and nonhuman primates | WSL105 |
| Friday 15 October 2021 13.30 | |||
| Friday 22 October 2021 13.30 | - | ||
| Friday 29 October 2021 13.30 | Daniel Tomsic (U. de Buenos Aires) | Neuroscience in the mud: interplay between lab and field research for understanding animal behavior | Zoom |
| Friday 05 November 2021 13.30 | |||
| Friday 12 November 2021 13.30 | Vikki Neville (U. Bristol) | Studying laboratory rodent welfare – what and how? | WSL105 |
| Friday 19 November 2021 13.30 | Gloriana Chaverri (U. Costa Rica) | TBC: Vocal communication in bats | Zoom |
| Friday 26 November 2021 13.30 | Claudia Wilke (U. York) | TBC: Gesture communication in chimpanzees | Zoom |
| Friday 03 December 2021 13.30 | Andrew Mooney (Trinity College Dublin) | The value of ex situ collections for global biodiversity conservation | Zoom |
| Friday 10 December 2021 13.30 | Gerald Carter (Ohio State U.) | TBC | Zoom |
| Friday 21 January 2022 13.30 | Patrick Kennedy (U Bristol) | Social lives of wasps | Zoom |
| Friday 28 January 2022 13.30 | |||
| Friday 04 February 2022 13.30 | Jessica Ayers (Arizona State U.) | How do we pick our friends? | Zoom |
| Friday 11 February 2022 13.30 | Joah Madden (U. Exeter) | How does an individual's spatial ability relate to their movement ecology.....in pheasants? | WSL105 |
| Friday 18 February 2022 13.30 | T.N.C. Vidya (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India) | TBC: Socioecology of Asian elephants | Zoom |
| Friday 25 February 2022 13.30 | Jenn Smith (Mills College) | Comparative social evolution in mammals | Zoom |
| Friday 04 March 2022 13.30 | Antica Culina (Netherlands Institute of Ecology) | TBC: Pair bonds in birds | Zoom |
| Friday 11 March 2022 13.30 | Isabel Behncke (Oxford U.) | Evolution and social behavior: ethology of bonobos in the wild | Zoom |
| Friday 18 March 2022 13.30 | Jenny Tung (Duke U.) | Sociogenomics in the wild | Zoom |
| Friday 25 March 2022 13.30 | Eric Wice (Rice U.) | The evolution of social group structure | Zoom |
2020-21
| When | Speaker | Title | Where |
| Friday 16 October 2020 13.30 | Thomas Haaland | Adaptations to variable environments on different evolutionary time-scales | Zoom |
| Friday 23 October 2020 13.30 | Eleanor Caves | Vision and signaling behaviour in cleaner shrimp-client fish mutualisms | Zoom |
| Friday 30 October 2020 13.30 | |||
| Friday 6 November 2020 13.30 | |||
| Friday 13 November 2020 13.30 | Meg Crofoot | The Ecology of Animal Societies | Zoom |
| Friday 20 November 2020 13.30 | Lisa Riley | Conserving culture: Abnormal behaviour, cognitive enrichment, and the conservation potential of captive primates | Zoom |
| Friday 27 November 2020 13.30 | Sinead English |
The evolution of sensitive windows during development: insights from unusual insects | Zoom |
| Friday 4 December 2020 13.30 | Dai Shizuka | The social dimensions of ‘winter’ ecology of migrant sparrows | Zoom |
| Friday 11 December 2020 13.30 | |||
| Friday 8 January 2021 13.30 | |||
| Friday 15 January 2021 13.30 | Nadine Müller-Klein | Host parasite interactions in semi free-ranging Barbary macaques - closing a can of worms? | |
| Friday 22 January 2021 13.30 | Mike Mendl | Animal emotion and decision-making: judgement bias as an indicator of animal affect and welfare | Zoom |
| Friday 29 January 2021 13.30 | David Shohami | Why did the bat cross the valley? Navigation and tree selection in free-ranging Egyptian fruit bats | Zoom |
| Friday 5 February 2021 13.30 | Daniela Perez | Synchronous courtship in fiddler crabs | Zoom |
| Friday 12 February 2021 13.30 | Gabriella Cini Gail | The effect of challenging environmental conditions on meerkat group coordination | Zoom |
| Friday 19 February 2021 13.30 | Sigrunn Eliassen |
Mating strategies and evolutionary games in cooperative neighbourhoods | Zoom |
| Friday 26 February 2021 13.30 | Zoom | ||
| Friday 5 March 2021 13.30 | Sandra Winters | CANCELLED | Zoom |
| Friday 12 March 2021 13.30 | Quinn Webber | Is it social or spatial? The causes and consequences of the relationship between social behaviour and habitat selection in caribou | Zoom |
| Friday 19 March 2021 13.30 | Richard Holland | True navigation in migratory birds | Zoom |
| Friday 26 March 2021 13.30 | Daniel Tomsic | CANCELLED | Zoom |
| Friday 30 April 2021 13.30 | Adriana Maldonado-Chaparro | TBC Variation in social behaviour | Zoom |
| Friday 7 May 2021 13.30 | Zoom | ||
| Friday 14 May 2021 13.30 | Zoom |