Animal Behavior Graduate Group Seminar Series

Isabel Kier, PhD Student, UC Davis, presents "How (not) to train your titi: lessons from four months of being thwarted by a bunch of one-kilogram monkeys".

Mauricio Cantor, Assistant Professor, Oregon State University, presents "Safeguarding cooperative fishing among humans and dolphins".

Darren Minier, Director of Animal Welfare and Research, Conservation Society of California, Oakland Zoo, presents "Animal Welfare and Wildlife Recover Research at Oakland Zoo".

Jacob Johnson, University of California, Davis, presents "Cinders and cites: How songbirds behave in extreme environments".

Host:  Dr. Andy Sih (asih@ucdavis.edu)

Suzanne Alonzo, Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, presents "How do sexual selection and plasticity interact to shape how organisms respond to changing environments?"

Ryan Earley, University of Alabama, presents "Multivariate behavioral phenotypes: development, genetics and other tinkerers".

Rosemary Blersch, UC Davis, presents "To the field and back again: a story of sociality, health, environment and survival in a changing world".

Felicity Muth, UC Davis, presents "New insights in bumblebee cognition".

Damian Elias, UC Berkeley, presents "Rethinking complex communication and sexual selection in spiders".

Enrollment — Graduates: ANB 290–001 (CRN: 20866)

Undergraduates: NPB 190C–008 (CRN: 40263)

Sergio Hidalgo, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Davis, presents "The ever-changing brain: insights into the mechanisms of seasonal plasticity".