The current ABS 2023 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 12 |
| Time | Oregon Ballroom 201 | B110-111 | B112 | B113 | B114 | B115 |
| 9:30 am - 12:00 pm | Past President's Symposium: Unsung Heroes of ABS | Social Domains of Aging | Applied animal behavior 1
Moderator(s): Carly Loyer, Steven Payne | Communication 1
Moderator(s): Dana Moseley, Sarah Jennings | Host-parasite interactions 1
Moderator(s): Carl N Keiser, Melanie F Guigueno | Behavioral plasticity 1
Moderator(s): Lynne Beaty, Gergely Horvath |
| 9:30 | Introduction
E. Hebets | From interactions to relationships to social structure: Understanding how aging shapes the social landscape
E. Siracusa, A. Pereira, J. Bohr Brask, J. Negron-Del Valle, D. Phillips, M. Platt, J. Higham, N. Snyder-Mackler, L. Brent | Chimpanzee Welfare Review: The State of the Science
L. Angley, G. Vale, K. Cronin | Cultural diversity in songs of an endemic bird in the high elevation cloud montane forests of India.
C. Arvind, S. Sawant, V. Robin | Patterns of Feeder Use by Wild Birds and Associated Effects on Mosquito-borne Pathogens
D. Barron, J. Maddox | Effects of Selfing and Outcrossing on Transgenerational Responses to Predation Risk
L. Beaty, H. Altadonna |
| 9:45 | Applications of Animal Behavior Research to Conservation Issues at Local, Regional, and Global Scales
R. Chock | Tools for the trade? DIAS and CFQ scores in shelter-housed dogs categorized as “high-arousal”
D. Cambrelen, V. Cussen, C. Loyer, P. Reid | Salient Sex Differences in Song Features of Female & Male Red-winged Blackbirds
C. Barros | A well-studied parasitoid uses multiple alternative hosts in its introduced range
D. Broder, J. Gallagher, A. Wikle, G. Welsh, D. Zonana, T. Firneno Jr. , R. Tinghitella | Keeping It Consistent: Repeatability of Risk-Sensitive Behaviors in the California ground squirrel
A. Binnett, C. Ortiz-Jimenez, S. Conroy, A. Sih, J. Smith |
| 10:00 | Sociality and the evolution of aging: insights from termites
J. Korb | The Topography of Attacks to a Model in Fight-bred Dogs Exhibiting Extreme Conspecific Aggression.
V. Cussen, P. Reid | Is feather coloration a reliable indicator of cognitive abilities in Eastern bluebirds?
D. Diaz, S. Johnsen, S. Nowicki | Zebras of all stripes repel biting flies at close range.
A. Gersick, K. Tombak, L. Reisinger, B. Larison, D. Rubenstein | Differences in phonotactic behavior related to changing acoustic environments in Ormia ochracea
J. Dominguez, N. Lee |
| 10:15 | The influence of film on Animal Behavior research: promoting discovery and captivating audiences
B. Clucas | Assessing inequity aversion and the social component of hunger-related frustration in dairy calves
J. Hendricks, M. Mendl, B. Lecorps | Using automated classification to build a note library of Adelaide's warbler (Setophaga adelaidae) songs
S. Huang, B. Carlson, P. Mower, D. Logue | A meta-analysis of life and co-evolutionary history traits affecting clutch abandonment in cowbird hosts
M. Guigueno, C. Petalas, A. Turcotte-van de Rydt, S. Ducatez | Does stress diversify individual behavioral strategies? A case study in Carpetan rock lizards.
G. Horváth, J. Martín, G. Herczeg |
| 10:30 | Age-related changes in sociality and helminth infection in wild red deer
G. Albery, S. Morris, A. Morris, F. Kenyon, D. McBean, J. Pemberton, D. Nussey, J. Firth | Cognitive bias and intraspecific social behavior in the domestic dog
C. Loyer, J. Ha, R. Foster | Chemical Communication in a Polluted World
S. Jennings, C. Francis | The sicker sex is not so simple: Host genotype and environment affect disease avoidance behaviors
C. Keiser, A. Davis, E. Trotman | Vibratory noise affects prey capture and the web structure of a funnel-weaving spider
B. Pessman, E. Hebets |
| 10:45 | Interwoven identities: Unraveling lessons from equity, diversity and animal behavior
D. Elias | How the Tiny Delectable Truffle Influences Animal Behavior
H. M Mohan-Gibbons | Urban habitats impact the song and reproductive success of a migratory bird (Dumetella carolinensis)
D. Moseley, S. Ewing, L. Bose | Inducible chemical defense in acorn ants
P. Koenig, C. Moreau | Growth-differentiation trade-offs: sensory and cognitive effects of accelerated development in frogs
S. Strobel, E. Fischer, M. Womack |
| 11:00 | Population age structure effects on social networks, fitness, and selection in a long-lived beetle
P. Cook, R. Costello, V. Formica, E. Brodie III | Cross-species replication of functional analysis methodology
S. Payne | Community algorithms reveal song type themes in Adelaide’s warbler song type sequence networks
H. Petkau, P. Mower, S. Krause, L. Mitchell, O. Medina Rodriguez, D. Logue | Effects of Multiple Parasites on Prothonotary Warbler (Protonotaria citrea) Nestlings
R. Pell, K. O'Neil, K. Miller, S. Green, M. Mash, E. Bowers | Predators, Pesticides, and Smoke, oh my!: Fear Generalization in a Wolf Spider
R. Szeligowski, J. Johnson, M. Michelangeli, N. Skelly, Z. Yu, A. Sih |
| 11:15 | Neighbors: On Eavesdropping in Mixed-species Assemblages and Animal Behavior Across the Americas
A. Trillo | Effects of Scentwork and Basic Manners Classes on Canine Welfare, Behavior, and Dog-Owner Relationships
S. Sobol , S. Dowling-Guyer | Ecological Speciation In Darwin’s Finches: Ghosts Of Finches Future
J. Podos, K. Schroeder | Mormon cricket Diet and Immunity following Fungal Attack
R. Srygley | The behavioral and neural auditory tuning of Ormia ochracea in Florida and across Hawaii.
Q. Vu, J. Dominguez, A. Wikle, D. Broder, R. Tinghitella, N. Lee |
| 11:30 | How social inheritance causes demographic turnover to have strong effects on hierarchy dynamics
E. Strauss | End of Session | Song sequences obey complex syntactic rules in a songbird.
W. Searcy, J. Soha, S. Peters, S. Nowicki | Parasite-induced changes to aquatic snail behavior in the presence of predation cues
E. Trotman, J. Rodriguez , C. Keiser | End of Session |
| 11:45 | End of Session | How Motorboat Noise Alters Acoustic Communication and Parental Care in Plainfin Midshipman Fish
M. Woods, W. Halliday, S. Balshine, F. Juanes | Avian grooming rates vary in time and space and predict survival.
M. Waller, S. Bush, D. Clayton |
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Wednesday, July 12 |
| Time | Oregon Ballroom 201 | B110-111 | B112 | B113 | B114 | B115 |
| 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Past President's Symposium: Unsung Heroes of ABS | Social Domains of Aging | Applied animal behavior 2
Moderator(s): Sarah R.B. King | Cognition & learning 1
Moderator(s): Jason Keagy, Felicity Muth | Mating/breeding systems
Moderator(s): Sigal Balshine, Taylor K Chapple | Behavior genetics/genomics
Moderator(s): Tina Barbasch, Claudio V. Mello |
| 1:30 | Intergenerational effects of a contaminant on zebrafish behavior and morphology
D. Shelton, V. Johnson, A. Sanchez, T. Mailli, J. Gordon, P. Jannssens, M. Covington, M. Noor | Life history and the evolution of age-dependent social behaviour: insights from a theoretical model
A. Rodrigues | Physiological indicators of stress in horses working in Equine-Assisted Services: A systematic review
B. Baxley, H. Rodriguez-Mori, N. Anderson | Repeated parallel differentiation of social learning differences in benthic and limnetic stickleback fish
J. Keagy, J. Boughman | Behavioural and physiological consequences of breeding across an intertidal gradient
S. Balshine, N. Brown, F. Juanes, A. Bose | Distinct genes recruited in the brain when sticklebacks face conflict over courtship and aggression
T. Barbasch, C. Behrens, M. McLain, E. Arredondo, A. Bell |
| 1:45 | Development and Validation of a Behavioral Assessment Tool to Monitor Shelter Dog Coping Behavior
A. Breithaupt, M. Hopfensperger, J. Jacobs | Hidden properties: Testing the kea parrot’s understanding of weight
M. Lambert, E. Temeroli, S. Jelbert | Harbor Porpoise Mating & Resightings in SC Alaska: Results from Photo-ID, Novel Video Techniques & Drones
D. Boege Tobin, M. Webber, B. Schulte, J. Shostak, S. Tierra, T. Becher, C. Hoag, A. Stallard | Mapping the genetic basis of reproductive strategies in threespined stickleback
C. Behrens, A. Bell |
| 2:00 | Keeping STEM Within Reach; Strategies for Retaining Undergrad Students in Major & Gen Ed Biology Courses.
C. Voorhees | Social rank and behavior as modulators of the pace of immune system aging in a free-ranging primate
E. Cooper, C. Whalen, N. Beeby, N. Snyder-Mackler, L. Brent, J. Higham | Too much too soon? Risk factors for fear behaviour in foster kittens prior to adoption
C. Graham, D. Pearl, L. Niel | Nectar neurotransmitters and bee behavior: Chemical complexity and congruence influence pollinator cognition
A. Leonard, J. Buelow, S. Crannell, F. Muth | Revisiting Mating Hypotheses of Northeast Pacific White Sharks (Carcharodon carcharias)
T. Chapple, S. Jorgensen, J. Cornelius, A. McInturf, J. Bowman, P. Kanive, A. Gleiss, A. Carlisle, B. Block | The evolution of lifestyle in blowflies: behavior, survival and genetic signatures
V. Cunha, D. L. Ferreira, A. V. Rodrigues, A. H. Wardhana, D. H. Sawitri, S. Tandonnet, B. C. Genevcius, T. T. Torres |
| 2:15 | Proximate factors affecting mortality or abandonment of free-roaming feral horse foals
S. King, M. Cole, C. Barton, K. Schoenecker | Why are cephalopod molluscs intelligent?
J. Mather, T. Bendixen, A. Leonard, K. Basava, N. George, Z. Vanhersecke, J. Omotosho, M. Muthukrishna | Male Aggression is Positively Correlated to Female Social Monogamy in Convict Cichlids
J. Gagliardi-Seeley, H. Liu | Emergence of developmental sex differences in the transcriptome of zebra finch song nucleus RA
C. Mello, S. Friedrich, A. Nevue |
| 2:30 | Applied Animal Behavior Committee
S. McDonnell | Sex and social stress influence epigenetic aging in a polygynous bat
D. Adams, G. Wilkinson | Examining Behavioral Sampling Schemes in Aviary-Reared Laying Hen Pullets
Q. Lu, M. Makagon, J. Van Os | Comparative Cognition in Queen and Worker Bumblebees
F. Muth | Mate choice copying in a species with non-promiscuous females, Porichthys notatus
A. Harrison-Weiss, G. Burgess, F. Juanes, S. Balshine | The neurogenomics associated with propensity to learn mate preferences in Heliconius butterflies
S. Potdar, E. Westerman |
| 2:45 | The Effects of Anthropogenic Noise on Provisioning Behavior in Western Bluebirds
K. Ozkan, C. Francis, J. Langley, J. Talbott | Social complexity affects social cognition in Polistes fuscatus wasp populations
J. Pardo Sanchez, S. Moon, E. Tibbetts | Rethinking Same-sex Sexual Behaviour: the Benefits of Broad Filters
J. Richardson, M. Zuk | End of Session |
| 3:00 | From (Eu)Social Insects to Social Media: Studying the Hows and Whys of Cooperation
J. Cusick | What’s love got to do with it? Parental care impacts social behavior and monogamous decision-making
A. Ophir | End of Session | Wild octopuses throw debris, sometimes in targeted ways and frequently hitting others.
D. Scheel, P. Godfrey-Smith | Phenotypic Plasticity and Assortative Mating in Threespine Stickleback Fish
M. Wund |
| 3:15 | Social learning in non-grouping animals
M. Webster |
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Wednesday, July 12 |
| Time | B110-111 | B112 | B113 | B114 | B115 |
| 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Social Domains of Aging | Ecological effects 1
Moderator(s): Becky Talyn, Kat Soto | Cognition & learning 2
Moderator(s): Christopher N. Templeton, Caleb Bunselmeyer | Mathematical/simulation/modeling
Moderator(s): Matthew Hasenjager, Colin M. Lynch | Predation & foraging 1
Moderator(s): Christopher H Taylor, Virginia K. Heinen |
| 4:00 | Menopause, senescence and sociality in dolphins and whales
J. Mann, M. McEntee, C. Karniski, V. Foroughirad | Testosterone’s role in spring nomadic migration of pine siskins (Spinus pinus)
A. Becker, H. Watts | Life History-Physiology Nexus: insights from vocal babbling in neotropical parrots
K. Berg, C. McLean, R. Eggleston, N. Viloria, S. Delgado, A. Pozulp | Characterizing infectious disease risk in a sentinel marine mammal with social behavior data
M. Collier, A. Jacoby, V. Foroughirad, J. Mann, S. Bansal | Behavioural And Transcriptional Responses During Novel Predator Learning in The Great Pond Snail
A. Batabyal, V. Rivi, K. Lukowiak |
| 4:15 | A Small Frog’s Strategy to Invasive Success: Biology and Behavior
K. Soto, E. Fischer | The Bottle Game: Combinatory Object Manipulation in Two Populations of Balinese Long-Tailed Macaques
C. Bunselmeyer, B. Third, N. Gunst, I. Wandia, E. Addessi, J. Leca | Learning within groups: capturing higher-order dynamics using hypernetworks
M. Hasenjager, N. Fefferman | How Bee Learning Might Influence the Evolution of a Common Flower Morphology
J. Burrow, R. Wilkins, M. Mayberry, A. Novinger, K. Naumer, H. Muse, D. McCart, A. Russell |
| 4:30 | Socioecological adversity recapitulates effects of aging on immune gene regulation in rhesus macaques
M. Watowich, K. Chiou, C. Costa , E. Goldman, M. Montague, R. Petersen, S. Patterson, J. Horvath, K. Sterner, M. Martinez, M. Platt, L. Brent, J. Higham, A. Lea, N. Snyder-Mackler | Toxic Effects of Glyphosate-Based Herbicides on Animal Behavior
B. Talyn, K. Bartels, B. Gonzales, C. Mercado, K. Muller | Individual differences in chimpanzee cognition and temperament
A. Cantwell, P. Barnes, M. Bryer, K. Sabbi, Z. Machanda, A. Rosati | A benchmark for computational analysis of animal behavior, using animal-borne tags
B. Hoffman, M. Cusimano, K. Zacarian, A. Friedlaender, C. Rutz | Insights into the Cooperative Behavior of Small-sized Cnidarian Polyps for the Capture of Large Prey
C. Gregorin, T. Vega Fernandez, L. Musco, S. Puce |
| 4:45 | Dynamic variation in the ecological and demographic selection environment affect costly investment strategy
G. Valiya Parambil, K. Isvaran | Exploring operant learning performance and reproductive success in Eastern bluebirds and tree swallows
S. Isgate, J. Keagy, J. Avery, A. Puchalsky, A. Iwanowicz, C. Honus | Generalizing the response-threshold model for multiple task types: A maximal entropy approach
C. Lynch, T. Pavlic | Scrounging is rare in a food-caching bird with specialized spatial cognition when learning a spatial task
V. Heinen, A. Pitera, B. Sonnenberg, C. Branch, L. Benedict, J. Welklin, L. Whitenack, E. Bridge, V. Pravosudov |
| 5:00 | Q&A + Discussion | End of Session | Experimental evidence of homing behavior in territorial rain forest lizards
M. Leal, D. Steinberg | Uumarrty: Evolutionary Game Theory in an Agent Based Modelling Framework
M. Remington, R. Clark, R. Hanscom, T. Higham, J. Sukumaran | Flower orientation does not increase preference or landing success in bumble bees (Bombus impatiens)
S. McWaters, S. Popp, M. Rivera, F. Mendoza, N. Richards, S. Tsai, A. Dornhaus |
| 5:15 | Anthropogenic noise inhibits inhibitory control in chickadees
C. Templeton, A. O'Connor, S. Strack, F. Meraz, K. Herranen | End of Session | Which visual traits do predators use to discriminate mimics from their models?
C. Taylor, D. Watson, F. Gilbert, J. Skelhorn, T. Reader |
