The current ABS 2022 In-Person Meeting program is listed below. Please be sure to reference this page regularly as program changes are expected up until the meeting.
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Wednesday, July 20 |
| Time | Ocarina | Tempisque | Chirripo / Tobosi | Gondola | Cahuita 1 | Cahuita 2 |
| 9:30 am - 12:00 pm | Bridging Brain and Behavior in the Americas
Moderator(s): Marcela Fernandez-Peters, Floria Mora-Kepfer Uy | Detailed Observations of Behavior for Generating Questions and Answering Them – A tribute to William Eberhard and Mary Jane West-Eberhard.
Moderator(s): Fernando Soley, Rafael Rodríguez | Puzzling Animals: Learning and Cognition
Moderator(s): Megan Lambert, Avery/L Russell | A Whole New World: Anthropogenic Effects on Behavior
Moderator(s): Theodore Stankowich, Jessica Yorzinski | Their Best Interests in Mind: Conservation and Behavior
Moderator(s): Bruce A. Schulte, Lynn Von Hagen | Change for Change's Sake: Behavioral Plasticity
Moderator(s): Molly Morris, Eric M Trotman |
| 9:30 | Introduction
M. Fernandez-Peters | Introduction
F. Soley | Cross-modal Cues and the Cocktail Party
A. Baier, L. James, G. Cohen, R. Page, P. Clements, K. Hunter, R. Taylor, M. Ryan | Acoustic communication and anthropogenic noise: a review in anurans and birds
D. Llusia, V. Zaffaroni-Caorsi, J. Gómez-Catasús, A. Barrero, J. Traba, M. Borges-Martins, R. Márquez, C. Both | Behavioral Misinformation on the Internet Affects Conservation Management of the Box Turtle.
R. Buchholz, R. Raspet | |
| 9:40 | Behaviour of an Indian Paper Wasp: Questions and Answers in the Tradition of the Eberhards.
R. Gadagkar |
| 9:45 | A new auditory-dependent operant task with social reinforcement for songbirds
M. Macedo-Lima, M. Fernandez-Vargas, L. Remage-Healey | Lack of lateralization during search patterns in wild, food-caching chickadees
L. Benedict, V. Heinen, B. Sonnenberg, A. Pitera, E. Bridge, V. Pravosudov | Anthropause Outcomes: Neutral Effects on a Population of Spiny-tailed Iguana, Ctenosaura similis
A. Nash | Understanding Kangaroo Rat Habitat Use to Improve Conservation Outcomes
R. Chock, D. Shier | Effect of environmental disturbance on the behavioral immunity of the ant Ectatomma ruidum
D. Galvez |
| 10:00 | Differences in the valence of learned stimuli in two species of swordtails
P. Fascinetto-Zago, B. Zago-Mazzocco, G. Rosenthal | Combined Sensory Pollutants Disrupt Morning Rest of Nesting Songbirds
J. Phillips, T. Jones, C. Francis | Local Ecological Knowledge Supports identification of Sea Turtle Nesting Beaches in Panama
E. Flores, J. De La Cruz, J. Seminoff, L. Ureña | Whether to stay or move? Insect larval dispersal, migration, and host plant choice under changing climate
S. Gupta, P. Anderson |
| 10:10 | Modeling student behavior to stimulate curiosity and hypothesis testing: the legacy of William Eberhard
A. Farji-Brener |
| 10:15 | Neural basis of turn-taking in the duetting plain-tailed wren
M. Coleman, N. Day, E. Fortune | Natural conditions and adaptive functions of problem-solving in the Carnivora
Z. Johnson-Ulrich, L. Johnson-Ulrich, K. Holekamp | Effects of Microclimate Change on the Survival Across Life Stages of a Small Ectotherm
L. Segura Hernández, E. Hebets | Something in the wind: aerial dispersal in the South American web wolf spider Aglaoctenus lagotis
N. Kacevas, L. Bidegaray-Batista, N. Gobel, M. González | Is behavior related to venom composition and heart rate in the Australian funnel-web spider Hadronyche valida?
L. Hernandez Duran, D. Wilson, T. Rymer |
| 10:30 | ManyBirds: a multi-site Open Science approach to avian cognition and behaviour research
M. Lambert, S. Reber, V. Slipogor, C. Mettke-Hofmann, E. Arbeau, E. Garcia-Pelegrin, R. Miller | Anthropogenic interference with moths’ sexual communication induces avoidance response
R. Sharon, A. Harari | Bird detection in response to pruning, harvesting, and application of agrochemicals on coffee farms.
I. Molina-Mora, V. Ruiz-Gutierrez, L. Sandoval, A. Quesada | Behavioral insights into extreme morphology: the imaginal molt in a treehopper (Hemiptera: Membracidae)
X. Miranda |
| 10:40 | The Nature of Natural History and the Evolution of Behavior
W. Wcislo |
| 10:45 | The neurobehavioral effects of environmental enrichment in laboratory rats
A. Sequeira, M. Rojas, J. Brenes | Intentional use of attention-getters facilitates cooperative interactions in wild birds
S. Markman, V. Demartsev, Y. Ben Mocha | Do skunks and armadillos respond differently to predator presence and urbanization than undefended mammals?
T. Stankowich, K. Cazel-Moore, T. Gallo, M. Fidino, S. Magle | Evaluating the Effectiveness of Multimodal Fence Types to Reduce Elephant Crop Raiding in Kenya
B. Schulte, S. Corde, L. Von Hagen, S. Kasaine, M. Githiru, B. Amakobe, U. Mutwiwa | Physiological cost to behavioral plasticity in the swordtail fish Xiphophorus multilineatus
M. Morris, H. Stec, M. Gambil, H. Whitmer, K. Tompkins, O. Rios-Cardenas |
| 11:00 | Mutual exploitation? How learning affects pollination and foraging success
M. Mayberry, K. Naumer, A. Novinger, D. McCart, R. Wilkins, H. Muse, A. Tia-Lynn, R. Avery L. | A Songbird Can Readily Detect the Eyes of Conspecifics under Daylight and Artificial Nighttime Lighting
J. Yorzinski, J. Troscianko, E. Briolat, S. Schapiro, W. Whitham | Participatory mental models reveal complex drivers and consequences of human-elephant interactions
L. Von Hagen, S. Gray, C. Lepczyk | Automatic tracking of receiver’s movements during courtship interactions in spotted bowerbirds
G. Spezie, D. Mann, J. Knoester, L. Fusani |
| 11:10 | Spider, sex, magik: elegant experiments for testing sexual selection hypotheses in the Neotropics
A. Aisenberg |
| 11:15 | Social and cognitive performances are associated with neuronal density in a monogamous cichlid fish
E. Gonçalves-de-Freitas, M. Brandão, R. Oliveira | Effect of the temperature on the performance of a lizard in two different cognitive tasks
I. Morales-Méndez, M. Ruiz-Gómez, P. Sánchez-Nava, C. Rangel-Patiño | End of Session | End of Session | Phenotypic plasticity and carryover effects: Across life-stage tradeoffs in predation and parasitism
E. Trotman, C. Keiser |
| 11:30 | Does phenotypic variation affect receiver learning in a Batesian mimicry system?
A. Russell, S. Sanders, L. Wilson, D. Papaj | End of Session |
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Wednesday, July 20 |
| Time | Ocarina | Tempisque | Chirripo / Tobosi | Gondola | Cahuita 1 | Cahuita 2 |
| 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Bridging Brain and Behavior in the Americas | Detailed Observations of Behavior for Generating Questions and Answering Them – A tribute to William Eberhard and Mary Jane West-Eberhard.
Moderator(s): Fernando Soley, Rafael Rodríguez | Live and learn: Cognition and Learning
Moderator(s): Olivia R Hamilton, Lauren A. Stanton | You Are (Not) What You Eat: Host-Parasite Interactions
Moderator(s): Andrew G. Fulmer, Elizabeth A. MacDougall-Shackleton | Keep me happy: Animal behavior and welfare in captivity
Moderator(s): Janire Castellano Bueno, Anamarie C Johnson | Is it all in their genes? Genetic Effects
Moderator(s): Robert A. S. Laroche, Ben A Sandkam |
| 1:30 | Convergent evolution in behavior and physiology in Anolis lizards
M. Johnson | The value in the details: copulatory courtship behavior in soldier flies and bean beetles
F. Barbosa | If memory serves: Do multimodal signals affect the working memory of female túngara frogs?
O. Hamilton, L. James, K. Hunter, R. Taylor | Parasite-induced variation of individual and group behaviour in guppies
A. Albi, J. Davidson, J. Stephenson, S. Binning, I. Couzin | How plants make cats happy
S. Bol, A. Scaffidi, E. Bunnik, G. Flematti | Maternal effects on early-life gut microbiota maturation in wild geladas
A. Baniel, L. Petrullo, A. Mercer, L. Reitsema, S. Sams, J. Beehner, T. Bergman, N. Snyder-Mackler, A. Lu |
| 1:45 | Manipulating food distribution alters social networks and information transmission in a food-caching bird
V. Heinen, L. Benedict, B. Sonnenberg, E. Bridge, D. Farine, V. Pravosudov | Absence of Anti-Parasitic Referential Alarm Calls in Yellow Warblers Allopatric from Brood Parasites
F. Fernandez-Duque, S. Lawson, J. Enos, S. Kleindorfer, S. Gill, M. Hauber | Multidisciplinary assessment of cumulative experience in laboratory rhesus macaques
J. Castellano Bueno, A. Paraskevopoulou, L. Sermin-Reed, S. Groves, N. Kindred, M. Jay, A. Czeszyk, J. Panafieu, J. Safourcade, S. Carella, C. Miller, M. Bateson, C. Poirier | Influence of parental genotype and reproductive environment on offspring reproductive behavior
R. Laroche, K. Weinersmith, L. Angeloni, J. Baylis, S. Egan, D. Wiegmann |
| 2:00 | Using RNA-seq to understand why we feel sick
P. Lopes, J. Faber-Hammond, C. Siemonsma, S. Patel, S. Renn | A soft spot for hard creatures: arthropod behavioral plasticity and evolution
M. Zuk | Predation intensity drives evolution of cognition independently of brain size in a Trinidad killifish
M. Korte, M. Walsh | A Review of Sensory Cues for Rejecting Foreign Eggs from the Nest by the Blackbird (Turdus merula)
A. Fulmer, M. Hauber | Interactive and therapeutic play may lead to lasting reduction in cortisol in shelter dogs
E. Congdon, E. Hines, J. Owens | Genetic line and courtship experience affect three mating behaviors in male Trinidadian guppies
N. Phipps, L. Stein, K. Hoke |
| 2:15 | The function of social groups in spatial learning and memory used for resource acquisition
A. Pitera, V. Heinen, B. Sonnenberg, L. Benedict, E. Bridge, V. Pravosudov | Assortative mating at an innate immune locus in song sparrows: opposites do not attract
E. MacDougall-Shackleton, S. Doucette, J. Slade | Preliminary Investigation of Behavior Support Programs in U.S. Animal Shelters
C. Faughn, PhD, S. Segurson, DVM, DAVCB, CDBC, CCBC | Five alternative reproductive morphs are encoded by multiple Y chromosomes in Poecilia parae
B. Sandkam, Y. Lin, M. Taves, D. Metzger, J. Mank |
| 2:30 | Mechanisms underlying host recognition and parasitic manipulation of social wasps
F. Mora-Kepfer Uy, F. Sánchez-Vargas2, M. Kane, C. Jernigan, R. Rafael Carvalho da Silva12 | Contributions to the Latin American scientific culture.
X. Miranda | The effects of dietary supplementation on the cognitive performance of coyotes (Canis latrans)
L. Stanton, J. Young, C. Schell | LARVAL SALMON LICE (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) EXHIBIT BEHAVIORAL RESPONSES TO CONSPECIFIC CUES
R. Morefield, H. Hamlin | Cannabidiol improves fish welfare
P. Giaquinto, M. Bellot, I. Guermandi, J. Favero-Neto, B. Camargo-dos-Santos | The ticking clock, a molecular behavior study of a Urochordate linking aging to circadian regulation
Y. Voskoboynik, A. Glina, M. Kowarsk, C. Anselmi, N. Neff, K. Ishizuka, K. Palmeri, T. Levy, S. Quake, I. Weissman, D. Sahoo, A. Voskoboynik, R. Ben-Shlomo |
| 2:45 | Variation in Nut-Cracking Sites of Bearded Capuchin Monkeys in Wet and Dry Areas of Ubajara National Park
T. Valença, G. Sirianni, M. Verderane, B. Santana, T. Falótico | The Role of Social Immunity in Feral Honey Bees (Apis mellifera) against Parasitic Mites (Varroa destructor).
B. Mukogawa, J. Nieh | Investigation what training methods dog owners use and why
A. Johnson, C. Wynne | Socioecological adversity is associated with differential immune gene regulation in rhesus macaques
M. Watowich, E. Goldman, C. Costa, K. Chiou, M. Montague, A. Ruiz-Lambides, M. Martinez, J. Horvath, K. Sterner, M. Platt, J. Higham, L. Brent, A. Lea, N. Snyder-Mackler |
| 3:00 | Closing Remarks | End of Session | Elevated corticosterone levels increase rejection of foreign eggs in the American robin
A. Turner, A. Di Giovanni, N. Antonson, H. Scharf, M. Abolins-Abols, M. Hauber | Optimistic ants: Positive cognitive judgement bias but no emotional contagion in the ant Lasius niger
K. Wenig, H. Kapfinger, A. Koch, T. Czaczkes | End of Session |
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Wednesday, July 20 |
| Time | Chirripo / Tobosi | Gondola | Cahuita 1 | Cahuita 2 |
| 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Flexibility it's in the air: Ecological effects & Behavioral Plasticity
Moderator(s): Gloriana Chaverri, Paula M. Iturralde-Polit | Every cloud has a silver lining: Applied Behavior and Conservation
Moderator(s): Juan Diego Pacheco-Polanco | All's Fair in Love and War: Sexual selection and Sexual Conflict
Moderator(s): Carrie L Branch, Joseph F Welklin | Growing Smart: Development and Cognition
Moderator(s): Molly E Cummings |
| 4:00 | Landing manoeuvres predict roost-site preferences in bats
G. Chaverri, M. Araya-Salas, J. Barrantes, T. Uribe-Etxebarria, M. Peña-Acuña, A. Varela, J. Aihartza | Social context and individual variation in dispersal behaviour
A. Jessop, M. Morrissey, M. Barbosa | Modulation of Vocal Amplitude Across Social Contexts in House Wrens
A. Allison, J. Podos | Sexual Conflict, more than complexity, leads to the development of greater social discrimination in swordtails
M. Cummings, P. Queller, R. DeAngelis, V. Yurt, K. Wallace, K. Martinez, C. Marrone, L. Reding, Y. Shirali |
| 4:15 | Ecological Drivers of Innovation on Darwin’s Finches: Role of Foraging Ecology and Habitat
P. Ibáñez de Aldecoa, M. Gallego Abenza, S. Tebbich | The behavioral ecology of inshore bottlenose dolphin in a tropical fiord in Southwestern Costa Rica
J. Pacheco-Polanco, D. Herra-Miranda, L. Oviedo Correa | An Apparent Match in Signal Form in two Acoustic Courtship Displays in Anna's Hummingbirds (Calypte anna)
A. Berger, P. Campbell, C. Clark | Experimental Control of the Sun and Landmarks for the Study of Sun Compass Learning in Honey Bees
F. Dyer |
| 4:30 | Variability in Echolocation Calls of Insect-Eating Bats as an Adaptation to Changes in Ambient Temperature
P. Iturralde-Polit, H. Goerlitz, G. Chaverri | Social situations differ in their contribution to population-level social structure in griffon vultures
N. Sharma, N. Anglister, O. Hatzofe, Y. Miller, O. Spiegel, N. Pinter-Wollman | Natural selection acts on the spatial cognitive abilities of food-caching birds, but do females concur?
C. Branch, J. Welklin, B. Sonnenberg, A. Pitera, E. Bridge, V. Pravosudov | Effects of real-time social feedback on male song learning in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)
C. McLean, C. Jones, S. Carouso-Peck, M. Goldstein |
| 4:45 | Identifying climate windows that influence breeding phenology and success in a resident songbird
L. Whitenack, J. Welkin, C. Branch, D. Kozlovsky, A. Pitera, B. Sonnenberg, V. Heinen, V. Pravosudov | Quantifying Southern Pacific Rattlesnake Hunting Behavior Through Community Science
E. Urquidi, B. Putman | Relationship between frequency and amplitude in bird vocalizations
J. Menezes, J. Podos | Fishing cashews. Transport of tool sets in Goffin’s cockatoos.
A. Osuna-Mascaró, M. O'Hara, S. Tebbich, S. Beck, A. Auersperg |
| 5:00 | The decline of the encounter rate of Endangered northeast Pacific Humpback whales in southern Costa Rica
L. Pelayo-González, D. Herra-Miranda, J. Pacheco-Polanco, H. Guzman, S. Goodman, L. Oviedo | End of Session | It Takes Two to Colonize: Choosiness of founders under variable sex ratios may decrease invasive potential
L. Taylor, M. Andrade | Chronic stress impacts vocal plasticity and learning in adult budgerigars
T. Wright, M. Araya-Salas, A. Villalba, J. Jawor |
| 5:15 | More than hard-wired behavior? Evaluating possible insights in arthropods
F. Soley, R. Rodríguez, G. Höbel , W. Eberhard | Female Mountain Chickadees pair with males larger than themselves
J. Welklin, C. Branch, A. Pitera, B. Sonnenberg, L. Benedict, V. Heinen, D. Kozlovsky, V. Pravosudov | Effects of the Light Environment on Courtship Displays in Multimodal Signalling Wolf Spiders
R. McGinley, J. Starrett, J. Bond, E. Hebets |
