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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Thursday, July 13 |
| Time | Oregon Ballroom 201 | B110-111 | B112 | B113 | B114 | B115 |
| 9:30 am - 12:00 pm | Ecology of Collective Behavior | Cognition in a Changing World | Ecological effects 2
Moderator(s): Karen Mabry, Jennifer Guevara | Social behavior 1
Moderator(s): Alison J. Barker, Iris I Levin | Parental Care 1
Moderator(s): Cara A. Krieg, Chris Tyson | Conservation
Moderator(s): Talisin Hammond, Lauryn Benedict |
| 9:30 | The Ecology of Collective Behavior
D. Gordon | Celebration of Julie Morand-Ferron
L. Cauchard, S. Benson-Amram | Camouflage mismatch due to environmental change affects personality traits in snowshoe hares
L. Barnard, L. Mills | Linking Communication and Cooperation: Cultural transmission of vocal dialect in the naked mole-rat
A. Barker, G. Veviruko, F. Murad, N. Bennett, D. Hart, G. Lewin | Behavioural rules underlying coordination of care in a brood-provisioning songbird
D. Baldan, E. E. van Loon | The impact of landscape characteristics on Western Meadowlark body condition and song
L. Benedict, L. Crenshaw, J. Salo, E. Holt |
| 9:40 | Exploring the links between cognition, provisioning and reproductive success in free living great tits
L. Cauchard, J. Martin, B. Doligez, P. Bize |
| 9:45 | Full Metal Sparrow: Behavioral Adaptation to Environmental Lead (Pb) Contamination in a Commensal Passerine
J. Di Liberto, H. Chik, S. Griffith, J. Swaddle | | Caregiving Drives Changes in Male Neural Physiology and Gene Expression in California Mice
M. Colt, D. Kolb, A. Valentino, E. Glasper, H. Fisher | Arousal Behavior in a Population of Little Brown Bats, Myotis lucifugus, Unaffected by White-nose Syndrome
H. Gmutza, R. Foster, J. Gmutza, G. Carter, A. Kurta |
| 10:00 | The Ecology of Cooperative Breeding Behavior
D. Rubenstein | Variation in cognitive performance among wild great tits: can it be measured, why does it arise, and what does it matter?
J. Quinn | Investigating how social heterogeneity underpins the emergence of risk-prone behaviors in urban mesocarnivores
C. Estien, L. Stanton, C. Schell | Rescue Behavior in Solenopsis invicta Fire Ants
P. Caine, N. Nejad, D. Goldman, M. Goodisman | Family Feud: Understanding mechanisms of familial decision-making in Poison Frogs
B. Goolsby, P. Baker, M. Soong, J. Baker, L. O'Connell | Behavior as a tool for achieving conservation goals for an endangered amphibian species
T. Hammond, R. Swaisgood, L. Jacobs, M. Curtis, D. Shier |
| 10:15 | Effects of urbanization on social spiders: the costs of urban living.
J. Guevara, D. Montano | Breeding Behavior is Socially Facilitated via Vocalizations in Magellanic, but Not African, Penguins
J. Clark, J. Kemper, P. Boersma | Testing the Sexually Selected Egg Color Hypothesis in House Wrens (Troglodytes aedon)
C. Krieg | Variation in glider-detected baleen whale calls in proximity to Gulf of St. Lawrence shipping lanes
K. Indeck, R. Gehrmann, A. Richardson, D. Barclay, M. Baumgartner, V. Nolet, K. Davies |
| 10:30 | Fear, Physics, and Food Drive Collective Behavior in the Ocean’s Pelagic Zone
K. Benoit-Bird | Does cultural transmission evolve because it is Lamarckian?
S. Dall | Hot Temperatures, Hot Tempers: Aggression in Wildfire-Affected Dark-eyed Juncos
J. Johnson, T. Hahn, A. Sih | The winner and loser effects in humans: evidence from randomized trials
R. Dukas, N. Smith | Nutritional state affects parental cooperation in a burying beetle
G. Lambert, P. Smiseth | American Woodcock courtship ground soundscape preference
C. Kolbmann, J. Kelly |
| 10:45 | Causes and consequences of individual variation in dispersal
K. Mabry, T. Wey, R. Berg, M. Strom | The Directionality of Allogrooming Within Cooperatively Breeding Groups
A. Fulmer, E. Felix | Hot parents in your area: Ambient temperature affects parental behavior in a biparental rodent
R. Laser, L. Lee, A. Ophir | Should I stay or should I go? The influence of noise and light pollution on fledgling movement
M. Mackinlay, J. Phillips, W. Bean, C. Francis |
| 11:00 | How sociality shapes ungulate movement: implications for behavioral ecology and wildlife conservation
T. Verzuh, J. Merkle | Does cognition facilitate the adaptation of wildlife to urban environments? A case study of raccoons
S. Benson-Amram | Uncovering multiple influences on space use by deer mice using NEON data
S. O'Fallon, N. Pinter-Wollman, K. Mabry | Spatial, social, and fertilization networks in barn swallows (Hirundo rustica erythrogaster)
I. Levin, C. Gibbs, T. Tsunekage, H. Kenny-Duddela, D. Schield, K. Keller, R. Safran | Early Rearing Environment Influences Prairie Vole Reproductive Success
J. Madrid, M. Slavinsky, M. Smullen, A. Ophir | Prey naivete and proactive management of an endemic island bird in the face of climate change
J. Mouton, S. Sillett |
| 11:15 | Families That Float Together Stay Together: Social Insect Colony Responses to Flooding
A. Robertson, H. Bagheri, M. Goodisman, D. Goldman | Leadership: If animals could talk this is what they would say.
D. Rubenstein | Paternal care buffers against the cost of interspecific competition in Nicrophorus vespilloides
C. Patmore, A. Vavrik, P. Smiseth | Dolphin attentive responses to anthropogenic noise stimuli before and during the COVID-19 anthropause
P. Stevens, J. Bruck |
| 11:30 | Environmental mismatch results in emergence of cooperative behavior in a passerine bird
R. Duckworth | Learning to adapt or exaptation? Are urban environments cognitively demanding for successful invaders?
L. Johnson-Ulrich, S. Forss | Movement and communicative implications of ventral carrying in animals with altricial infancy
D. Schruth | Deletion of a pheromone gene family alters spatial and social structure in house mice under natural conditions
M. Sheehan, T. Reichard, D. Chang, C. Meng, J. Cusker, S. Hardy, M. Zipple, C. Vogt | Short-term heat waves affect reproduction and parenting in threespine stickleback
L. Stein, R. Barrett | Hybridization between non-native Wakasagi and endemic Delta Smelt in the San Francisco Estuary
Y. Tsai, T. Hung, A. Finger, E. Carson |
| 11:45 | The mechanism of monarch butterfly flight strategy during migration at ground level
H. Tsai, C. Molina, M. Kronforst | Parental and sibling facilitation of offspring dispersal in the cooperatively breeding acorn woodpecker
E. Walters, N. Hagemeyer, W. Koenig | Wild zebra finch pairs display extreme spatial cohesion
C. Tyson, S. Griffith, M. Naguib | End of Session |
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Thursday, July 13 |
| Time | Oregon Ballroom 201 | B110-111 | B112 | B113 | B114 |
| 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Ecology of Collective Behavior | Cognition in a Changing World | Applied animal behavior 3
Moderator(s): Jill A. Villarreal, Mindy R. Waite | Social behavior 2
Moderator(s): Stotra Chakrabarti, Jesse Balaban-Feld | Neuro/endocrine and physiological mechanisms 1
Moderator(s): Sheetal Potdar, Ben Sandkam |
| 1:30 | From populations to groups to individuals and back again: Group living and fitness in a highly social primate
J. Winans, E. Archie, J. Tung, L. Gesquiere, S. Alberts, A. Markham | The crow is smarter than the fox: Association between song complexity, problem-solving and brain size in birds
J. Audet, M. Couture, L. Lefebvre, E. Jarvis | An enclosure quality ranking framework for terrestrial animals in human care
L. Barrett, A. Flanagan, B. Masuda, K. Grabar, R. Swaisgood | Experience with predation influences social fish group risk-taking and foraging behaviours
J. Balaban-Feld, V. Sundararaj, B. Kotler, W. Mitchell, Z. Abramsky | Heritability and Behavioral Associations with Oxytocin and Cortisol Concentrations in Dog Puppies
G. Gnanadesikan, E. Bray, E. Cook, S. Tecot, E. MacLean |
| 1:45 | The effect of Roundup Super Concentrate on Drosophila melanogaster activity
A. Bartels , B. Talyn , A. Zarobinski | When cats aren't napping: Play behavior and playtime in cats according to their guardians in Uruguay
F. Barrios, G. Suárez, M. Udell, J. Damián | Understanding the endocrine basis for increased reproductive output in an avian brood parasite
K. Lynch |
| 2:00 | Collective responses to the rise of inequality: Lessons from a bird society and beyond
D. Papageorgiou | An investigation of learning, memory, thigmotaxis and diet in Gryllus pennsylvanicus
E. Hermer, D. Kozlovsky, M. Doria, M. Poirier, S. Bertram, J. Morand-Ferron | Dogs who Guard Resources: Inconsistency Between Evidence Based Recommendations and Current Practices
C. Faughn, S. Segurson, D. Farago | Social Distancing in Lions
S. Chakrabarti, J. Bump, Y. Jhala, C. Packer | Are larger Ormia ochracea with bigger ears better able to locate host cricket calling songs?
L. Monguí, J. Dominguez, N. Lee |
| 2:15 | Metabolic stress during transition period profoundly affects reproductive behavior in dairy cows.
H. Singh, P. Dangi | Exploratory observation of the social dynamics of outdoor ex-laboratory miniature pigs (Sus Scrofa domesticus)
J. Chou, M. Chasles, I. Camerlink, J. Rault, A. Cozzi, K. O’Driscoll, M. Marcet-Rius | Neuromodulation of protein-hunger induced aggressive behavior in Drosophila melanogaster
S. Potdar, K. Asahina |
| 2:20 | Reliance on social information increases with decreasing ambient temperatures in black-capped chickadees
E. Isaksson, J. Martin, R. Dakin, K. Mathot |
| 2:30 | A scaling perspective on collective behaviour: Lessons from Social Spiders
L. Aviles | Cognition in Context:Pet Dog Social and Problem-Solving Behavior Predicted by Human Caregiving Style
M. Udell, L. Brubaker | Benefits and costs of dynamics mixed-species aggregations of Neotropical Opiliones
I. Escalante, M. Dominguez, D. Gomez-Ruiz, G. Machado | Diversity of androgen signaling underlies reproductive behavior across male morphs of Poecilia parae
B. Sandkam, P. Zhuang, S. Smalls, E. Li, N. Prior, M. Taves |
| 2:40 | City tit wit: cognitive variation in wild and common garden contexts
M. Thompson, S. Caro, D. Réale, A. Charmantier, J. Morand-Ferron |
| 2:45 | Human Factors Impact Cat Personality Stereotypes: Impactions for Cat Welfare and Adoption
J. Villarreal, J. Ha | Pied Piper Hypothesis: Investigating the Social Influence of Hatchery Salmon on Wild Salmon Migration
M. Kuruvilla, J. Anderson, T. Quinn, C. Okasaki, A. Berdahl | Habitat complexity predicts neuron number in six species of Puerto Rican Anolis
L. Storks, J. Garcia, C. Perez-Martinez, M. Leal |
| 3:00 | Collective song behavior during and after the COVID-19 lockdown
J. Phillips, G. Derryberry, D. Luther, E. Derryberry | Cognition, Social Competition and Behavioral Flexibility in Crickets
M. Reichert | Development and Validation of an Owner-Implemented Ear Cleaning Training Protocol for Companion Dogs
M. Waite, T. Kodak | Nestling Size Asymmetries Shape Parental Favoritism and Sibling Conflict in a Wild Songbird
K. O'Neil, K. Miller, A. Atkins Coleman, R. Pell, S. Green, E. Bowers | Neural Trade-off in the Sensory Regions of Waterfowl (Anatidae)
K. Toler, J. Corfield |
| 3:15 | End of Session | Group Coordination and Cooperation among Dolphins Specialized in Foraging with Humans
K. Sears, A. Machado, F. Daura-Jorge, D. Farine, E. Rogan, M. Cantor | End of Session |
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Thursday, July 13 |
| Time | B110-111 | B112 | B113 | B114 | B115 |
| 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Cognition in a Changing World | Predation & foraging 2
Moderator(s): Stefan Popp, David W Kikuchi | Social behavior 3
Moderator(s): Kaija Gahm, Conner S Philson | Host-parasite interactions 2
Moderator(s): Sebastian Stockmaier, Elvira D'Bastiani | Communication 2
Moderator(s): Marc Schmidt, Jay Schwartz |
| 4:00 | The impact of urban environmental characteristics on cognitive performance of Eurasian red squirrels
P. Chow, K. Uchida, I. Koizumi | Fecal Findings: What DNA Metabarcoding Data Tells Us About the Plant Diet of Wild Baboons
G. Andreasen, R. Ng'ang'a, M. Dasari, K. Warutere, R. Mututua, L. Siodi, M. Akinyi, S. Alberts, E. Archie | Seeing when the sights are unclear: Social responses to a fluctuating visual environment
H. Anderson, J. Qiu, S. Balshine | Social interactions affect infection disease in free-ranging griffon vultures
E. D'Bastiani, N. Anglister, K. Gahm, M. Acácio, G. Vaadia, I. Lysynyansky, I. Mikula, O. Spiegel, N. Pinter-Wollman | Geographic variation in Anna’s and Costa’s hummingbird song
A. Berger, P. Campbell, C. Clark |
| 4:15 | Neighbors have no obvious effects on sentinel behavior by Florida scrub-jays
P. Bednekoff, R. Bowman, R. Vargas | Social sharks? Using proximity loggers to measure interactions among basking sharks (Cetorhinus maximus)
A. McInturf, D. Caillaud, H. Dolton, N. Payne, D. Cade, E. Johnston, J. Houghton, N. Fangue, T. Chapple | The microbiome and behavior: Examining host-microbe interactions in a superorganism
A. Gamboa, N. Pinter-Wollman | It’s Me, Hi. Determining Individuality in Female Northern Elephant Seal Vocalizations.
J. Camargo, M. Murphy, C. Casey, G. Kolluru, M. Schroth-Glanz, H. Liwanag |
| 4:30 | Comparing Behavioral Flexibility in Individuals Across the Range of a Rapidly Expanding Species
K. McCune, C. Logan, C. Rolls, Z. Marfori, J. Hubbard, D. Lukas | DNA metabarcoding identifies urban dietary patterns of coyotes in San Francisco
T. Caspi, M. Serrano, S. Vanderzwan, C. Schell, B. Sacks | Movement behavior predicts social position across behavioral situations in an avian scavenger
K. Gahm, M. Acácio, N. Anglister, G. Vaadia, O. Spiegel, N. Pinter-Wollman | Predation Cues Amplify the Effects of Parasites on the Personality of a Keystone Grazer
C. Salerno, J. Buck, S. Kamel | Sickness and Song in Swamp Sparrows
C. Howell, S. Peters, S. Alberts, S. Nowicki |
| 4:45 | Social learning of innovations in dynamic predator-prey systems
D. Kikuchi, M. Simon | A Window into Leaf Litter: Substrate-borne Vibrations as an Ecological Method to Study Dwarf Geckos
C. Perez-Martinez, J. Ogilvy, M. LaMartina, M. Leal | High-resolution tracking of bat and livestock encounters to reveal insights into cross-species transmission
S. Stockmaier, S. Ripperger, G. Carter | Investigating the effect of posture on song quality during the production of song in the brown-headed cowbird
M. Schmidt, N. Aponte Borges, D. Wu-Corts, R. Chai, N. Panasevich, E. Tao |
| 5:00 | Cognitive performance is related to response to anthropogenic noise in an urban bird species
G. Blackburn, A. Thornton, B. Ashton, M. Ridley | Search Movement Strategies in Ants
S. Popp, A. Dornhaus | Environmental correlates of social network position in a wild mammal
C. Philson, C. Bruebach, T. Bastian, b. barr, D. Blumstein | End of Session | Animal emotional expression and human perception: Phylogeny, acoustics, and mammalomorphism
J. Schwartz |
| 5:15 | Predator cues and social learning in guppies: Population and neural studies
S. Reader | End of Session | Dynamics of alliance formation between males after replacement of dominant partner in Symphodus ocellatus.
K. Stiver, J. Hellmann, S. Marsh-Rollo, S. Alonzo | Guinea Pigs' Courtship Display: a Multimodal Approach
P. Verzola-Olivio, P. Monticelli, F. Frei |
| 5:20 | Closing Remarks
L. Cauchard, S. Benson-Amram |
