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Fri 29/07 Morning Alumni Auditorium Newman Blue Newman Green Newman Purple Newman Red Forum Seminar Room I Forum Seminar Room II Newman Collaborative Peter Chalk 2.1-2.3 (Room 3) Peter Chalk 2.3-2.6 (Room 4) Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Session 4 Session 5 Session 6 Session 7 Session 8 Session 9 Session 10 Cooperative breeding Personality variation Social networks Human behavioral ecology Mate choice Phenotypic plasticity Environmental change Parental care Vocal communication Sperm competition & paternity 10:45-11:00 Constance Dubuc Subordinate breeding opportunities and strategic growth in wild Kalahari meerkats Kimberley J. Mathot Josh A Firth An experimental test of state Prior social networks amongst behavior feedbacks in shorebirds wild birds predicts subsequent spatial arrangements Abigail E. Page Social network centrality and fitness in two hunter-gatherer populations Sarah Leclaire MHC-based mate choice: An odor mechanism mediated by bacteria? Willem Frankenhuis Evolution of sensitive periods in a model of incremental development Josefin Sundin Coral reef fishes show negligible behavioural adjustments to elevated CO2 11:05-11:20 Eric L. Walters Testing the bet-hedging hypothesis in the acorn woodpecker Maria Moiron The role of state-behavior feedbacks in explaining personality differences Andrea Bamberg Migliano Hunter-gatherer social networks are optimized for cultural exchange. Jamie Winternitz Drivers of MHC-dependent mate selection in humans and primates David Richardson Social mate choice under reduced constraints: MHC, heterozygosity, and age Barbara Taborsky Behavioural and genomic mechanisms underlying longterm effects of social experience Talisin T. Hammond Fanny Ruhland Dianne H Brunton Do differences in activity budgets Changes in maternal behaviour Female song rate and structure mediate responses to during cocooning in a wolf spider predict reproductive success. environmental change? 11:25-11:40 Jessica A. Cusick Recruitment and fitness benefits of helpers in a cooperative breeder Marion Nicolaus Density fluctuations represent a key process maintaining personality variation Yi-Ru Cheng Network position reveals social stress in a cooperatively breeding bird Daniel Smith The Ontogeny of Cooperation and Partner Choice Among Hunter-Gatherers Susan N. Gershman Crowd control: Sex ratio affects male sexually-selected cuticular hydrocarbons Bruno Alves Buzatto Conditional strategies under the light of the environmental threshold model Buddhi Dayananda Effect of climate change on cognitive ability of hatchling lizards 11:45-12:00 Esther Niemasik Group size and heterospecific competition pressures impact genetic fitness returns. Hannah Williams Ecological consequences of IIDs in behaviour for a social scavenger Damien Farine Consistent community structure results from repeatable movements by wild songbirds Simon Evans Explaining inheritance of reproductive timing in a modern human society Tom Price Attractiveness in older males relies on their microbiota Ignacio Escalante Plasticity or biomechanical changes? Effect of autotomy in harvestmen locomotion Paul Jerem Sarah Golüke Alexis C. Billings Human disturbance vs predation Female zebra finches smell their Complex information about risk: do responses differ? eggs predation risk in acoustically simple alarm calls 12:05-12:20 Jonathan P. Green Helper investment in cooperatively-breeding birds is kin-selected Renata Mazzei Intraspecific social behavior variation in the cleaning goby Elacatinus prochilos Margaux Rat Networks of sociable weavers reflect dominance, kinship and cooperativeness Juan Du Child Survival and Kin Effects in a Pastoralist Society Gustavo S. Requena Body condition affects parental males' mating success in harvestmen Sarah Dalesman Population variability in plasticity responding to native and invasive predators Reehan S Mirza Low environmental calcium impairs alarm cue response in fishes Ben Halliwell Functional and taxonomic diversity of parental care in squamate reptiles Arik Kershenbaum Andri Manser Uncovering context-specific howl Sperm Competition Suppresses type usage in wild wolves Gene Drive in a Natural Mouse Population 12:25-12:40 Emma M. Wood Social effects on telomere dynamics in a wild cooperative bird David F. Westneat Responses to novelty reveal plasticity and not a “novelty” syndrome Ipek G. Kulahci Lemurs groom-at-a-distance through vocal networks James Thompson Nagalingam Kumaran Ontogeny and the sexual division Sexual selection in Bactrocera of labour amongst BaYaka fruit flies foragers Shannon Whelan Male experience buffers female laying date plasticity Jenny Ouyang Light at night affects behavior and physiology in a songbird Anne Storey Physiological correlates of seabird parental decisions change with food availability Yishai Weissman How and What Information is Encoded in Hyrax Snorts Evening Session 11 Cooperation Session 12 Family conflict Session 13 Session 14 Parental care Pollution & sexual selection 16:10-16:25 Claudia Kasper The genetic and environmental determination of cooperation Elise Huchard Competitive growth in a cooperative mammal Nyil Khwaja Flexibility but no turn-taking in provisioning riflemen 16:30-16:45 Manon K. Schweinfurth Reciprocal trading of different commodities in Norway rats Wendt Muller Favored trait combinations? Parent-offspring coadaptation in blue tits Katherine Sasser Kathryn Arnold Intraspecific competition leads to Prozac perils: Antidepressants alter avian courtship traits tradeoffs with parental care, affecting fitness 16:50-17:05 Alessandra B. Schnider The effect of relatedness on cooperation in female vervet monkeys Peter Buston Liliana D'Alba The four elements of withinSelf-defense in lizard eggs group conflict in animal societies 17:10-17:25 Shumpei Sogawa Dieter Lukas Dear enemy based on Tit-for-Tat Killing competitors’ offspring in territorial cichlids provides female mammals greater resource access 17:30-17:45 Gerald Carter Does reciprocity explain food sharing in vampire bats? Gabriela K Hajduk Inbreeding and infidelity in a cooperatively breeding bird Bob Wong Sex interrupted: pharmaceutical pollutant impacts pre- and postcopulatory sexual selection Session 15 Sensory ecology Ana Duarte Burying beetles cause shifts in microbiome of a breeding resource Shin-ichi Kudo Male egg-caring is sexually selected in giant water bugs Toshitaka Suzuki Anuradhi Jayaweera Experimental evidence for Effect of sexual cannibalism on compositional syntax in bird calls male sperm allocation James Rouse Learning and memory mechanism controlling plastic sperm competition responses Dan Mennill Peter Morse Vocal learning in the wild: an Male Southern Blue-Ringed ontogenetic playback experiment Octopus are Stingy with their Sperm Javier delBarco-Trillo Increased sperm DNA fragmentation: a cost of high sperm competition Andreas Sutter Sexual selection and a selfish genetic element in mice Session 16 Session 17 Session 18 Session 19 Session 20 Inter-group conflict Mating systems & sex-role evolution Conservation & behavioral ecology Population differentiation & speciation Movement ecology Cynthia Tedore Generating RGB imagery that looks color realistic to animal eyes Jennifer Hellmann Intergroup interactions influence intragroup behavioral dynamics in a social fish Eduardo Rodriguez-Exposito Spatial population structure, bethedging and polyandry: an empirical test Samuel Smithers Is visual contrast enhanced by combining polarization and intensity information? Andrew N. Radford Consequences of out-group conflict on within-group behaviour Jussi Lehtonen Neelkamal Rastogi Jodie Gruber Why anisogamy drives ancestral Nest site selection in ecologically Geographic divergence of behavioural traits in invasive dominant ant species sex roles cane toads Ambika Kamath Matching movement patterns to mating patterns in an Anolis lizard Bibiana Rojas Chemical defences override visual signals in a multimodal warning display Harry H. Marshall The maintenance of intergroup foraging niche differences in banded mongooses Karoline Fritzsche Sex-ratio bias causes the evolution of sex-role reversal Colleen Cassady St. Clair Proactive use of reactive behaviour could enhance coexistence with wildlife Jason Keagy Transcriptomics of female mate discrimination in recently diverged stickleback species Carrie L Branch No genetic structure despite limited movement in mountain chickadees Michael Bonsall Dr Minna Saaristo Janne. K. Valkonen On the origin and maintenance of Pharmaceutical alters mate The dazzling warning signal of parental care choice and gene expression of a European adders fish Claudia Fichtel Intergroup encounters in a Malagasy primate (Propithecus verreauxi) Chiara Benvenuto Drivers and consequences of sequential hermaphroditism under different mating contexts Ravi Jambhekar Impact of Invasive Weed on Butterfly Behaviour and Habitatuse. Stephen H Montgomery Oliver Höner Adaptive divergence in brain Why some males remain at composition between ecologically home when most others disperse distinct incipient species Charlotte Regan Maternal care varies with home range quality in Soay sheep T. Jean M. Arseneau Lutz Fromhage The carrot and the stick promote Parental investment, participation in intergroup fights competitiveness, and sex role divergence Michael Magrath Improving the reintroduction success of captive-bred helmeted honeyeaters Rudi L Verspoor Hybrid incompatibility, not polyandry, stops a selfish genetic element spreading Michael G Bertram Pervasive endocrine disrupting contaminant impacts male mate choice Patrick Tomkins An agricultural contaminant impacts the reproductive behaviour of the guppy Amanda M. Franklin Femtosecond lasers to manipulate colour signals of stomatopod crustaceans Yves Bötsch Experimental evidence for impacts of leisure activities on forest birds Roi Dor What is driving differentiation of house sparrow populations in Israel? Raoul F. H. Ribot Predicting black swan events: finding water in the desert Lucy C Steward “Outsiders” are important in spatially connecting a structured population Sat 30/07 Morning Alumni Auditorium Newman Blue Newman Green Newman Purple Newman Red Forum Seminar Room I Forum Seminar Room II Newman Collaborative Peter Chalk 2.1-2.3 (Room 3) Peter Chalk 2.3-2.6 (Room 4) Session 21 Session 22 Session 23 Session 24 Session 25 Session 26 Session 27 Session 28 Session 29 Session 30 Social evolution Sexual selection Personality variation Hormones & behaviour Early life effects Parental care Cognitive evolution Foraging Parasitism Signalling 10:45-11:00 Olof Leimar Genes as cues of relatedness and social evolution in heterogeneous environments 11:05-11:20 Caitlin A. Stern Julien Renoult Seasonal sociality: flexibile group Aesthetics evolution: insights living illuminates the evolution of from neuroscience societies 11:25-11:40 Luis A. Ebensperger Group stability modulates social benefits in a plural breeding rodent 11:45-12:00 Teresa Dzieweczynski Mating under the influence: ethinylestradiol affects mate choice in Betta Mark A. Whiteside Fitness consequences of early life habitat complexity: a holistic approach Ariane Mutzel Provisioning in flycatchers: Combining life-history and optimal-foraging theory Enrico Sorato The genetic architecture of personality traits in the red junglefowl Blanca Jimeno Endocrine stress response has sex-specific effects on survival Mylene Mariette Prenatal acoustic communication programs avian offspring for high ambient temperatures Jeanne Bovet Mapping female bodily features of attractiveness Julian Evans The influence of individual and social characteristics on leadership Wolfgang Goymann Corticosterone concentrations reflect parental roles and parental expenditure in coucals Madeline K. Strom Habitat specific fitness consequences of group-living in Octodon degus Elizabeth J. Herridge Sexual selection on seductive female characters Sophie Picq Animal personality and speciation in coral reef fishes 12:05-12:20 Catherine Young War and peace in the group living crimson finch Juan G Rubalcaba Female nest ornamentation and its fitness consequences in starlings 12:25-12:40 Claudia A.F. Wascher Arja Kaitala Sociality and health in a complex I’m sexy and I glow it: glow matters bird society Afternoon Session 31 Cooperative breeding Marie Fan Marcus Michelangeli Pretty in purple: male plumage in A novel behavioural syndrome a faithful fairy-wren and its link to microhabitat selection Session 32 Parental investment Rachael E. Bonoan Seasonality of Mineral Preferences in Honey Bees Ines Klemme Learned parasite avoidance is driven by host personality and resistance David Wilson Heritable vocal performance in North American red squirrels, Tamiasciurus hudsonicus Julia Schroeder Peter Kappeler Revisiting the individual-level link Cognitive abilities and fitness between paternity and paternal proxies in a wild primate care Tali S. Berman The goat’s table manners: avoiding ingestion of herbivore insects Sara Beros Vitellogenin acts as a behavioural modulator in tapeworm-infected ants Michael Thom Modelling the evolution of individuality signalling under sexual selection Clare Andrews Developmental telomere shortening predicts risk-sensitive foraging in adult starlings Min Wu Sociogenomics of Maternal Care and Mother-offspring Interactions in Earwig Niclas Kolm Female brain size and the assessment of male attractiveness Frants H. Jensen Distributed search strategies in deep-diving long-finned pilot whales Henrik Flink A mere fluke: can parasites help predators limit fish invasions? Daniela Perez Social context affects synchrony in fiddler crab waving displays Yong Zhi Foo The effects of sex hormones on immune function Dustin R. Rubenstein Epigenetics and the fitness effects of unpredictable early life conditions Louis Sallé Temperature, age and altitude drive nest insulation in tits Alex R. DeCasien Limited evidence for encephalization and longevity coevolution in mammals Yoonjung Yi Food solicitation in Javan gibbons principally relates to learning diet Svensson, P A How cunning are puppet masters? Mind-bending parasites in sticklebacks. Johanna Chemnitz Somatic state affects long distance pheromone communication in burying beetles Craig RA Barnett Are nestling size hierarchies an outcome of parent’s boldness? Suzanne C. Mills Environmental stress, hormones and behavior Jacquelyn K. Grace Ines Braga Goncalves Transient stress affects The evolutionary ecology of behavioral ontogeny in a wild bird pipefish brooding structures James P. Higham Yosuke Kojima The primate social brain revisited Gravid snakes crave rare, toxic prey Katja Rönkä Geographic variation in predation pressure on polymorphic, aposematic moths Fabian S. Rudin Changes in dominance status erode personality and behavioral syndromes Philippe Vullioud Stress hormone and cooperative effort in Damaraland mole-rats helpers Michael G Emmerson Conspecific number and density modulate gregariousness in adolescent zebra finches Ben Ashton Group size predicts general intelligence in a cooperative breeder Sophie Labaude Temperature, manipulative parasites and amphipods behavior: consequences for trophic chain Carly L Lynsdale Parasitism in Asian elephants Session 33 Session 34 Mate choice Learning 14:10-14:25 Emma Vitikainen Thomas Ray Haaland Alloparental favouritism by sex in Differential allocation: A new theoretical framework a mammalian cooperative breeder Wolfgang Forstmeier Are we misguided by preconceptions on mate choice for quality? Jayden van Horik Fast and flexible learning in pheasant chicks 14:30-14:45 Rita Covas Benjamin Jarrett Cooperative breeding on islands: Parental behaviour increases the reconciling reduced seasonality potential for evolutionary change and increased unpredictability Antje Engelhardt Female cryptic choice in primates: eventuality, evidence and study prospects Ellis JG Langley The relationship between social rank and spatial learning in pheasants 14:50-15:05 Sarah Guindre-Parker Unpredictable environmental conditions and alloparental care in superb starlings Kirsty MacLeod Minutes matter: brief hatching asynchrony affects hihi chicks Ginny Greenway Do female seed bugs choose to avoid mating failure? 15:10-15:25 Oded Keynan Allee effects in the cooperatively breeding Arabian babbler Irja I. Ratikainen Differential parental allocation to offspring size vs number Evening Session 41 Session 42 Session 35 Maternal effects Alexandra Capodeanu-Nägler Variation in offspring dependency on posthatching care in burying beetles Session 36 Camouflage Ferran Sayol Environmental variation and the evolution of large brains in birds Session 37 Fighting Tammy M. Duong Size matters: size dependent prey selection in adult dragonflies Ossi Nokelainen Predator community structure alters the warning signal efficacy in moths Session 38 Session 39 Session 40 Movement ecology Sex allocation & sex ratios Conservation & behavioural ecology Diana A. Robledo Ruiz Does paternal immunocompetence affect offspring vulnerability to maternal androgens? Peter Korsten Prenatal maternal hormones do not correlate with offspring fitness Jolyon Troscianko Disruptive Camouflage Disrupts Search Image Formation Mark Briffa A waste of effort? Analysis of skill during animal contests Johanna Hedlund Point of no return –zero philopatry in a philopatric bird Lee Koren Maternal testosterone and wildlife sex ratios Sarah Collins How has reintroduction affected the song of the cirl bunting Paul George Lovell Separating the roles of concealment and disguise in disruptive colouration Dr Sarah Lane Can post-fight personality change explain winner and loser effects? Mario B. Pesendorfer Context-dependent scatterhoarding drives indirect competition among oaks Susanna Pla Factors influencing hermaphroditism in Teleost fish Bruce Waldman Enhanced call effort in frogs infected by amphibian chytrid fungus Theo Robert When do male bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) learn? Charli Davies Trans-generational effects of androgens in a female-dominant mammal Rafael C Duarte Visual modelling predicts seahorse predation efficiency on algal-dwelling shrimp Hanne Lovlie Exploring individual aggression and winner-loser effects on male dominance Eve Davidian Benefits of male philopatry in mammals with male-biased dispersal Davina L Hill Sex-biased resource allocation depends on a mother's diet Yiting Jiang Anti-predator escape distances of common and threatened bird species Sofía Rodríguez-Brenes When chytrid doesn't kill: females discriminate against infected males María Larrava Developmental stress could enhance learning and memory in novel environments Dom Cram Maternal strategies to protect offspring telomeres, in wild meerkats Diana Umeton Testing the illusion of ‘flickerfusion’ K. Charlotte Jandér Costly fights increase with competition for resources in female figwasps Souvik Mandal How do wasps get familiar with their foraging landscape? David M. Shuker The evolution of polyandry in a mostly monandrous wasp David Hamilton The detail in the devil: uncovering Tasmanian devil transmission networks Session 43 Session 44 Intrasexual competition Session 45 Parental care Session 46 Migration Session 47 Pair bonding Session 48 Session 49 Session 50 Foraging Inbreeding & genetic variation Information use Cooperative breeding Life-history evolution Social networks 16:10-16:25 Dario Josi Predation and habitat characteristics determine social structure in cooperative cichlids Rienk W. Fokkema Reproductive behaviour under social competition: family size and competitive ability Samuel Ellis Survival, reproduction and growth in dynamic ant nest networks Charlotte Rosher Relatedness and senescence reduce aggressive male interactions over mating Eva Ringler Adopt, ignore or kill? Parental decisions in a poison frog Florian Müller Nocturnal departure times of migratory songbirds with distinct migration routes Nataly Hidalgo Aranzamendi Divorce in a tropical bird: incest, infidelity and territory quality Joseph L Woodgate Exploration vs exploitation: lifelong tracking of bumblebee foraging routes Aneta Arct Heterozygosity - fitness correlations: the role of environmental condition Lucyna Wojas Gathering social information by eavesdropping in nonlearning model bird species. 16:30-16:45 Sjouke A. Kingma Will Allen Predation risk drives cooperation The axes of life history variation and communal breeding in reptiles and amphibians Lysanne Snijders Tracking the social behaviour of a small songbird Erin McCullough Male-male competition, female choice, and selection of physical performance Sandra Steiger Parental care increases attractiveness of male burying beetles Heiko Schmaljohann Plastic reactions to environmental cues along the migration route Elspeth Kenny The adaptive significance of allopreening Alice Charalabidis More choosy under a risk of predation or competition? Brian Mautz Inbreeding has sex-specific effects on inbreeding avoidance Kenneth Schmidt Behavioral indicators and eavesdropping on cues of predation risk 16:50-17:05 Julie Kern Recent immigrants are less valuable to group members than residents Rufus Johnstone Dynamic trade-offs between tissue types during growth Ron Chen Spatiotemporal profiling reveals multi-scale social dynamics in Eurasian jackdaws Bodhisatta Nandy Cost-benefit of aggression: plasticity under perceived competition in males Tina Barbasch Plasticity and Personality of Parental Care in the Clown Anemonefish Shay Rotics Wintering in Europe instead of Africa increases juvenile bird survival Malika Ihle Behavioural compatibility, fitness and divorce in a wild bird population Gaelle Fehlmann Raiding baboons: sit-and-wait predators of the urban environment Irene Godoy Teri B Jones Inbreeding risk, avoidance, and The role of dominance and costs in a wild primate population personality in social information transmission 17:10-17:25 Hirokazu Tanaka Helpers improve breeder’s condition in a cooperatively breeding cichlid Raquel Monclús The costs of reproduction: postpartum foraging and stored reserves Julia Lehmann Foteini Spagopoulou Stable social network positions in Do high mate competition baboons environments influence male reproductive success? Hannah West The evolution of male care in mammals Rosemarie Kentie Chloé Laubu Wintering north or south of the Mismatched partners that Sahara correlates with breeding? achieve postpairing behavioral similarity improve their fitness Pierre JC Chuard The pretty ones kneel: food competition in wild-caught guppies Per T. Smiseth Intraspecific competition and inbreeding depression 17:30-17:45 Michael Taborsky Reciprocal trading generates higher levels of cooperation than kin selection Alycia Lackey Understanding lifetime reproductive success in a polyphenic salamander Christina R Stanley Stability of social relationships and networks in free-ranging equids Curtis Creighton Evaluating alternative hypotheses for the evolution of biparental care Claudia Mettke-Hofmann Costs and benefits of decisions in early and late migrants Marine Cusa Seasonal dietary variation in an abundant arctic fish species. Dr Hazel J Nichols Inbreeding tolerance and avoidance in a cooperatively breeding mammal Rachael Shaw Happy wife, happy life? Male robins cater to female demands Nora Carlson Information encoding strategies in UK tit species Sun 31/07 Morning Alumni Auditorium Newman Blue Newman Green Newman Purple Newman Red Forum Seminar Room I Forum Seminar Room II Newman Collaborative Peter Chalk 2.1-2.3 (Room 3) Peter Chalk 2.3-2.6 (Room 4) Session 51 Session 52 Session 53 Session 54 Session 55 Session 56 Session 57 Session 58 Session 59 Session 60 Cultural evolution & social learning Cooperation & group living Personality variation Genetics of sexual selection Family conflict Mating systems Signalling Urban behavioural ecology Cognitive processes Anti-predator strategies 10:45-11:00 Lucy Aplin Cultural inheritance of foraging skills in great tits, Parus major Manuela Ferrari A reduced propensity to cooperate under enhanced exploitation risk Will Sowersby Environmental stochasticity and the evolution of animal personalities 11:05-11:20 David Wheatcroft Innate song discrimination in a closely related songbird species pair Geoff While The evolutionary ecology of family living in lizards Ulrike Scherer Personality affects mate choice in a monogamous cichlid, Pelvicachromis pulcher 11:25-11:40 Noa Truskanov Learning from seeing a solution: a challenge to social learning 11:45-12:00 Michal Polak Caspers BA Adele Mennerat Is male ornament size genetically Odor based parent recognition in Reduced brood failure in mixedcorrelated with offspring fitness one-day old songbird chicks paternity blue tit broods components? Helena Larsdotter-Mellström Immunological costs of chemical and acoustic signaling in a cricket Pierce Hutton Flexibility of physiological and behavioral responses to light pollution Pizza Ka Yee Chow Staying perfect: memory and behavioural traits in problem solving. Lesley J. Morrell Anti-predator aggregation in a murky world Maxime Dahirel Behavioural responses of arachnids to urbanisation: the role of intra- and inter-specific variation Wiebke Schuett Forest age and urbanization influence behaviour of ground beetles Thomas Bose Effects of inhibition: deadlockbreaking and dithering in activity selection Gilberto Pasinelli Do wood warblers Phylloscopus sibilatrix consider predation risk when settling? L. Max Tarjan Space use and reproductive success of male sea otters Sophie L. Mowles Multimodal communication in courting fiddler crabs reveals male performance capacities Lyanne Brouwer Testing the key hypotheses to explain variation in extrapair paternity David Lawson Floral spatial fragrance patterns and multimodal signals Kirke Munch Mate familiarity influences social learning strategies in a monogamous lizard Robert J. Dugand David López-Idiáquez An empirical resolution to the lek Longer postfledging period paradox increases offspring survival reducing future parent reproduction Sigrunn Eliassen Alex Szorkovszky Richard Merrill Jos Kramer Sorting guppies in groups reveals Discrete genetic modules Extra-pair mating and Parent-offspring competition and underlie divergent attraction the social traits of individuals cooperation in anti-predator the evolution of family life behaviours in Heliconius behaviours butterflies Loren D. Hayes Julien Martin Lucas Marie-Orleach Aviad Heifetz Costly breeding: Why do females Genetic basis of between- and Indirect genetic effects on The blessing of having younger breed plurally? within-individual variance of reproductive behaviour and nestmates docility morphology Sara Calhim Joachim G. Frommen Gamete evolution in Tardigrades The use of urine as aggressive signal in cooperative cichlids Kathryn S Peiman The effect of noisy miners on urban avian communities Elizabeth McKenna Kelly Counting on your friends: sociality and quantity discrimination. Carita Lindstedt-Kareksela Sex-linked deception in costly antipredator defence in social pinesawfly 12:05-12:20 Luca Lamoni Multi-agent models to study humpback whales' song cultural transmission Sheng-Feng Shen Andrew Sih Ecological transitions in grouping Personalities, movement benefits in burying beetles ecology, social networks and parasites in sleepy lizards Kiyoko M. Gotanda The role of humans in the evolution of Darwins finches Andreagiovanni Reina A model of the honeybee best_of_N nest-site selection process Theodore Stankowich Weaponry vs. Wits: evolution of defenses and intelligence in mammals 12:25-12:40 Marco Smolla Josefine Bohr Brask The effect of population structure Can social structure explain the on social learning dynamics presence of cooperation in guppies? Sebastiano De Bona Item Response Trees: how to best analyse qualitative alternative responses Patricia L. Jones Attraction and defense: The influences of plant toxins on behavior Shreekant Deodhar Wild lizards: repeatability in riskaversion & display behaviours over lifetimes Patrick S. Fitze Experimental evidence that RockPaperScissors dynamics can evolve in most species Aneesh P. H. Bose When to eat your children? Parent-offspring cannibalism in toadfish Luke J. Eberhart-Phillips Demographic origins of avian mating system diversity Maximilian Körner Can males afford honesty? Forceps size & Immunocompetence in Earwigs Megan Head No habitat dependent selection on male sexual traits Faye Thompson When to discriminate against kin? Forced eviction in banded mongooses Isabel S Winney Mothers, not genes, determine promiscuity in a cross-fostered population Jacob D Berson Gareth R. Hopkins Cuticular hydrocarbons: Reliable Effects of artificial light at night signals of quality? on cricket mating behaviour Christina Meier Bonnot Nadège Cognitive Processes in Executive- To flee or not to flee when coping Control Paradigms with risk? Mon 01/08 Morning Alumni Auditorium Newman Blue Newman Green Newman Purple Newman Red Forum Seminar Room I Forum Seminar Room II Newman Collaborative Peter Chalk 2.1-2.3 (Room 3) Peter Chalk 2.3-2.6 (Room 4) Session 61 Session 62 Session 63 Session 64 Session 65 Session 66 Session 67 Session 68 Session 69 Session 70 Cooperation Human behavioural ecology Sexual selection Sexual conflict Warning signals Personality variation Vocal communication Conservation & behavioral ecology Sensory ecology Foraging 10:45-11:00 Jessica Barker Ruth Mace Local competition promotes both Cultural tag structures costly harming and policing cooperation and mate choice in rural China Cécile Vanpe Sexual selection explains Rensch's rule in large mammals Teagan Gale Disentagling physiological costs of reproduction from costs of male presence Hannah M Rowland Variable predator avoidance learning and the fitness of aposematic prey Mariana Velasque Cognition, personality and energetics in hermit crabs Gabriella Gall Conflict dependent use of vocalisations coordinating group movement in meerkats Georgia Ward-Fear Ecological Immunisation: Using CTA to mitigate invasive species impacts 11:05-11:20 Manfred Milinski Nikhil Chaudhary Humans use extortionate Variation, Benefits and strategies to enforce cooperation Inheritance of Social Capital in Hunter-Gatherers Muller Doriane Adaptive value of learning under sexual selection in changing environment Matthieu Paquet Female manipulation of male care via maternal effects Emily Burdfield-Steel Red or Dead - honest signalling in the wood tiger moth Adrian Bell Colony-level, limb preference in the red wood ant Amy E Leedale Kin recognition using vocal cues in cooperatively breeding birds Maider Iglesias-Carrasco Nico K. Michiels Effects of eucalyptus plantations, Light tricks reveal the invisible: temperature and predation on Active photolocation in fishes amphibian ecology Elinor M. Lichtenberg Alternative food handling tactics’ impacts on bee foraging efficiencies 11:25-11:40 Stephen Heap Self-structured cooperative social environments through betweengroup competition Djuke Veldhuis Human adaptability: responses to changing livelihoods in Papua New Guinea Patricia LR Brennan Visualizing copulation in vertebrates to understand genital evolution Urs Kalbitzer Johanna Mappes Female sociality, sexual conflict, Should aposematic prey be and offspring survival in capuchin conspicuous, distinct, or both? monkeys Raphaël Royauté Developmental diet affects behavioral-morphological integration in the house cricket Filipe C. Ribeiro da Cunha The evolution of rule to overcome deception through antipredator signals Heikki Hirvonen Significance of plasticity of brains and behaviour in salmon conservation Pierre-Paul Bitton Active photolocation: a widespread prey-predator visual enhancement ability? Ming Liu An explanation for flower constancy through nectar dynamics in flowers 11:45-12:00 John McNamara The effect of reputation on cooperation and population fitness Mark Dyble Sex equality explains the low relatedness of hunter-gatherer bands Antje Girndt Male promiscuity does not pay Mareike Koppik Changku Kang Thomas M. Houslay Impact of sex peptide and diet on Body size affects the evolution of Does danger affect Drosophila lifetime fecundity startle display in moths personalities? Michal Budka Marco Musiani Functions of duets and chorus in Behavioural ecology, genetics Chubb’s cisticola and conservation units in caribou and wolves Sandra Winters Visual biases and the evolution of species discrimination in guenons Russell Hill Anthropogenic Impacts on Samango Monkey Risk-Taking Behaviour 12:05-12:20 Ian M Hamilton How long to hold a grudge? A game of forgiveness Erik Postma Constraints and trade-offs in performance: Are triathletes Darwinian demons? Jonathan Henshaw A unified measure of linear and nonlinear selection Michael Hawkes Sexual conflict and insecticide resistance Tomasz S. Osiejuk Individual identity and functions of duets in Yellow-breasted boubou 12:25-12:40 Maxwell Burton-Chellew Social learning can favour or disfavour cooperation Virpi Lummaa Selection on human life-history traits during a demographic transition Alison Wright Jana Eccard The adaptive potential of sex Bruce effect in rodents, an chromosomes in encoding sexual adaptation to low densities? dimorphism Afternoon Session 71 Family conflict Session 72 Life-history evolution Session 73 Male mate choice 14:10-14:25 Aisha C. Bründl Increased laying costs leads to full compensation in parental provisioning Claireaux Marion Behavior-selective fishing induces changes in life-history traits 14:30-14:45 James L. Savage Familiarity promotes negotiation in parental care Francesca Santostefano Machteld Verzijden Behaviours mediate genetic life- Male fruitflies can learn to prefer history trade-offs in Field crickets an arbitrary female trait 14:50-15:05 Kat Bebbington Immediate costs and delayed benefits of sibling rivalry Lucy E. Ford Copying with rotting food: hurrying up burying beetles 15:10-15:25 Shana Caro Sibling rivalry and divorce lead to the evolution of dishonest offspring Brandon Quinby Latitudinal Variation in Life History Strategies in, Nicrophorus orbicollis. Evening Session 81 Alternative reproductive tactics Session 82 Collective behaviour Session 74 Maternal effects Jean-Guy J. Godin Shirley Raveh Male mate choice influenced by Maternal effects influence the phenotype of audience males offspring behaviour in the European earwig Emmanuelle Sophie Briolat Juli Broggi Testing signal honesty in Dominance and metabolic rate in warningly-coloured burnet moths zebra finches: an experimental approach Gabriella Gamberale-Stille Generalization bias, stimulus salience and warning signal evolution. Session 75 Eusociality Josefina Zidar Sara Waller Early cognitive stimulation affects Unsolicited Cat Calls: A Feral adult personality in the red Repertoire junglefowl Session 76 Session 77 Anthropogenic noise Weaponry & male-male competition Chang-Yu Chang Near Infrared Vision Modulates the Burying Behavior in Burying Beetles Tin Yan Hui Confronting heterogeneity: context-dependent foraging in a tropical sand crab Michał Bogdziewicz Melquisedec Gamba-Rios Nitrogen fertilization affects seed Predator cues recognition by dispersal by rodents bats: the effect on social communication Hassen Allegue Fine-scale biologging provides new insights into seal foraging behaviour Erin S. McCallum Happy, mellow fish? Using behavioural ecology to measure anthropogenic impacts Palestina Guevara-Fiore Testing optimal foraging theory with experimental evolution of Drosophila melanogaster Session 78 Session 79 Session 80 Foraging & cognition Postcopulatory sexual selection Speciation & hybridization Michael L. Smith Honey bee sociometry: from colony founding to colony death Selvino de Kort The effect of aircraft noise on bird song Jema Rushe Fred Dyer The Evolution and Diversification Exploitation vs. Exploitation: of Rhinoceros Beetle Horns modulation of search in foraging bees Jukka Kekäläinen Sexual selection via female remote regulation of sperm surface carbohydrates Mathew Berg Assessing the ring species hypothesis: from genetics to behaviour Christelle Couchoux Queen and worker conflicts in a primitively eusocial sweat bee Chris Templeton Traffic noise drowns out great tit alarm calls Devin M. O'Brien The costs of sexually selected weapons in insect systems Dovid Y. Kozlovsky What makes specialized foodcaching chickadees successful city slickers? Christopher R. Friesen The effect of exercise and oxidative stress on sperm traits Katharina J. Peters Asymmetrical introgressive hybridization and increased hybrid fitness in Darwins finches Amélie Fargevieille Zoltán Tóth Evolution of female ornaments: a Maternal effects influence larval role of male mate choice? phenotype in the smooth newt Oliver Mitesser Developmental time advances onset of sexual production in eusocial insects Graeme Shannon Road noise affects antipredator behavior in a free-ranging mammal Juan Carranza Population structure affects antler size and longevity in red deer Michal Arbilly Pilfering may impose limits on food cachers’ long term memory Masanori Kohda Female control of male’s paternity recognition in polyandrous cichlid Hannah E A MacGregor Male competition and introgression of chemical signals in wall lizards Deike Lüdtke Selection on female body colouration through male mate choice Tali Reiner Brodetzki Game of Thrones: Polygyny in the Desert Ant Rick Bruintjes A tool to predict impacts of anthropogenic noise on fishes John Fitzpatrick Comparing evolutionary rates: sexual weapons evolve faster than ejaculates Andrea Griffin Adjusting foraging strategies: a comparison of urban and rural mynas Kristin A. Hook Antennation and paternity bias in the seed beetle (Callosobruchus maculatus) Andrew T.D. Bennett Sensory ecological maintenance of diversity in a parrot species complex Session 83 Intrasexual competition Sarah Catherine Paul Predation and parental effects influence ladybird egg toxicity and colour Joannes van Cann Maternal environment induces adaptive pheno- and epigenotypes in bank voles Session 84 Tool use Session 85 Senescence Session 86 Brood parasitism Session 87 Session 88 Session 89 Session 90 Sensory ecology Plasticity within & between generations Climate change Mutualism 16:10-16:25 Rebecca Dean Alternative mating tactics shape the ocellated wrasse gonadal transcriptome Christos C. Ioannou High-predation habitats impact leadership structure in shoaling fish Kavita Isvaran Intrasexual competition and the opportunity for selection in female mammals Alice Auersperg Innovative tool manufacture in the Goffin’s cockatoo (Cacatua goffiniana) Rolando Rodriguez-Munoz Senescence is now known to be widespread in nature Christina Riehl Cooperative and parasitic reproductive strategies in a tropical cuckoo Vivek Nityananda Stereo vision and prey detection in the praying mantis Susan B. McRae Limits to adaptive plasticity during incubation in a threatened species Terene P.T. Ng Linking behaviour and climate change: insights from intertidal snails 16:30-16:45 Charlyn Partridge Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin Suzanne H. Alonzo Olli J. Loukola Kambiz Esfandi Social-sexual environment determines lifetime behavioral plasticity and reproductive outputs Sara Mynott Simon Gingins How climate change is changing anti-predator defences Trouble in Paradise: Dealing with Conflicts in Mutualistic Cleaning Interactions Mónica Cuervo Pollinator attraction in Eucerabee pollinated sexually deceptive orchids Kristin Duffield Gabriel A. Jamie Marc Théry Habitat structure shapes Brain transcriptional profiles of alternative reproductive tactics in collective movement in a wild baboon troop bluegill sunfish Reproductive cooperation among Learning to use a tool by an unrelated males affects sexual insect selection A dynamic terminal investment threshold in male cricket calling effort. Can phenotypic plasticity help specialist brood parasites colonise new hosts? The importance of UV wavelengths for behavioral ecology of newts 16:50-17:05 Katja Heubel Variation in gonadal investment along an ecological gradient Julie S. Miller Aligning genetic interests and consequences for collective behaviors in ants Cristina Tuni Reduced pre and postmating traits in response to mating competition Jessica E.M. van der Wal The ecology of tool use in New Caledonian crows Sinead English Reproductive senescence in a long-lived, viviparous vector Øistein H. Holen Avian brood parasitism: Defend early or wait and see? Wladimir J Alonso Joel Pick Evolution of bright colours: Cascading maternal effects and worlds of prohibition and oblivion their evolutionary implications Murielle Ålund Brian Steidinger Sexual selection affects climate Why not all pollinating fig wasps adaptation in collared flycatchers pollinate their figs 17:10-17:25 Susan Balenger Acoustic & Social Experiences Shape Male Reproductive Tactics and Condition Jolle W Jolles Personality variation drives collective movements and foraging in schooling fish Isabelle B Laumer Eat now or use tool? Decisionmaking in Goffins & orangutans Barbara Class Senescence of personality in a wild bird Bruce Lyon Ornamental chick coloration in coots: selection within or between broods? Ulrike Katharina Harant Red fluorescence: first evidence of functionality in reef fish Jonathan Parrett Danis Kiziridis Sexual selection, adaptation and A unifying framework for the traitclimate change based study of interactions Susanne Zajitschek Transgenerational effects of sexual interactions Tue 02/08 Morning Alumni Auditorium Newman Blue Newman Green Newman Purple Newman Red Forum Seminar Room I Forum Seminar Room II Newman Collaborative Peter Chalk 2.1-2.3 (Room 3) Peter Chalk 2.3-2.6 (Room 4) Session 91 Session 92 Session 93 Session 94 Session 95 Session 96 Session 97 Session 98 Session 99 Session 100 Social evolution Personality variation Cognition & behaviour Sexual conflict Signals & coloration Life-history evolution Courtship displays Mimicry Foraging Communication 10:45-11:00 Jennifer E. Smith Leadership in Mammalian Societies: Emergence, Distribution, Power, and Payoff Christoph von Borell Redouan Bshary Growing into the self: personality Competition makes cleaner development in rhesus wrasse underwater naturalists macaques Stuart Wigby Insulin signaling mediates maleinduced harm in female Drosophila melanogaster Megan Petersdorf Eryn McFarlane Intrasexual selection and male Differentially expressed genes rhesus macaque facial coloration and elevated metabolic rate in hybrid flycatchers Michael Krützen Socio-sexual displays predict paternity in Amazon River dolphins Brett M Seymoure Austin K. Dixon Mimetic coloration, behavior and The spatial foraging behavior of a vision corresponds to light site attached damselfish environment Arumoy Chatterjee How do individual honeybees communicate new food source information? 11:05-11:20 André Walter Kin-mediated differences in group feeding performance in subsocial spiders Lies Zandberg Individual variation in mate preference in great tits (Parus major) Guillam E. McIvor Social information influences jackdaws’ response to a novel predator Elena Berg Kin selection and sexual conflict in seed beetles Staffan Andersson Key innovation and evolution of red carotenoid coloration in weaverbirds Reuven Dukas Sexual selection in fruit flies: courtship interference versus female choice Matthew Bulbert Context-dependent ant-mimicry of the transformational mimic Riptortus serripes Samuel Ellis Predation risk of acoustic communication in a tree cricket 11:25-11:40 Paromita Saha Niels J. Dingemanse Equilibrium lost and regained: Indirect genetic effects maintain behavioural dynamics of a social variation in personality wasp Michael A. Pardo A social bird tracks the group membership of outsiders Laura M Travers Live fast die young life history in female Drosophila melanogaster Elisa P Badas Sinlan Poo Male quality is related to eggshell Predation risk and breeding site pigmentation value affect male guarding behaviour Stefan Lupold Evolution and adaptive significance of copulatory courtship in Drosophila Baharan Kazemi Richard Pearce Mimicry evolution and salience: Foraging Behaviour in Testing a classic case of mimicry Bumblebees (Associative Learning and Group Foraging) Jay Culligan Decoding cuttlefish communication using human speech recognition models 11:45-12:00 Elizabeth Wiley Modelling population demographics in a cooperative species Charline Couchoux Personality and the outcome of agonistic interactions in eastern chipmunks Marie Diquelou Responses to control in invasive birds: personality selection or learning? Sally Le Page Male relatedness or familiarity? Which reduces female harm in Drosophila? Tom D. Schultz Color badges and aggression among damselflies engaging in scramble competition. Ornela De Gasperin Life history plasticity based on successive sampling of environmental information Nao Ota Audience promotes courtship dancing exchanged between sexes of a songbird Julian Kapoor Deceptive vocal mimicry in a lekking hummingbird Michel B.C. Sokolowski Foraging for pesticides in the honey bee: a new approach Max Ringler Brother were art thou callin’ – Acoustic ranging in Poison Frogs 12:05-12:20 Jacqueline Dillard Disentangling the correlated evolution of cooperation and monogamy in birds Mats Olsson Morphs, Telomeres and Dragon Personalities Buddhamas P. Kriengwatana Sex and developmental history influence zebra finch auditory discrimination learning Barbara Tschirren Male fitness consequences of female-specific selection Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar A badge of status? Kevin Arbuckle The evolution of menopause in mammals: a Darwinian puzzle Katie E. McGhee Female experience with predators affects male courtship and offspring care Masaru Hasegawa Nestling-mimicry –alternative female attractant to ornamentation– in barn swallows Anne Heloise Theo Heterospecific Foraging Behaviour of Reef Fish in Lakshadweep Islands, India Rebecca Nagel Importance of electric cues in African weakly electric fish speciation 12:25-12:40 Sigal Balshine Monogamy did not drive evolutionary transitions to sociality among cichlids Kate Laskowski Personalities are an inevitable outcome of development in clonal fish Rory Beresford The effect of senescence on brain size Pavel Stys Evolution and Function of Traumatic Insemination in Heteroptera: Behavioral Aspects Alexis Chaine Familiarity breeds contempt for badge of status experiments in sparrows Antonio M. M. Rodrigues The evolution of reproductive effort in social groups Heather L. Auld Male association preference for rivals observed to actively court females Casey Peet-Paré Ultraviolet hoverflies: mimicry from a predator perspective Elisabetta Versace Physiological and behavioral responses to fruit odorants in Drosophila Jelle Boonekamp Does trait canalization reduce biomarker performance as fitness proxy? Melanie Dammhahn Who takes the risk in a landscape of fear?