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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Friday, July 14 |
| Time | Oregon Ballroom 201 | B110-111 | B112 | B113 | B114 | B115 |
| 9:30 am - 12:00 pm | Allee Symposium | Conservation Behavior | Communication 3
Moderator(s): David Logue, Logan James | Social behavior 4
Moderator(s): Sasha Dall, Emily C. Laub | Sexual selection & sexual conflict 1
Moderator(s): Erin L McCullough, J. Colton Watts | Neuro/endocrine and physiological mechanisms 2
Moderator(s): Cheng-Yu Li, Karan Odom |
| 9:30 | Evidence of social learning and across-year memory of a novel foraging task in a migratory bird
A. Madsen, A. Brierly, M. De Aquino, F. Mahdi, B. Lyon, A. Chaine, D. Shizuka | Using conservation behavior to conserve species during the Anthropocene
E. Peterson | The Deal with Animals: Sharing Anthrozoological Research to Increase Access to Scientific Discoveries
M. Bell | Causes and consequences of colony fission via group dispersal in wild social spider colonies
S. Cassidy, K. Taylor, S. Eiseb, T. Kavili, M. Haufiku, C. Keiser | The Loss of Nuptial Gifts in Opiliones Coincides with Increased Behavioral Sexual Conflict
T. Brown, E. Marinko, M. Burns | Social information changes stress and gut physiology during food unpredictability in a songbird
J. Cornelius |
| 9:45 | Studying animal behavior for conservation in fire-prone, human-dominated landscapes
R. Blakey | Vocal complexity in vampire bats
G. Carter, J. Vrtilek, G. Smith-Vidaurre | The evolutionary consequences of learning under competition
S. Dall | Post-Copulatory Song as a Mate Guarding Tactic in the Pacific Field Cricket
L. Hagg, C. LaMere, M. Zuk | Revealing the Mechanism of Pheromone Sensation Using CRISPR Gene Editing in African Cichlid Fish
C. Li, J. Bowers, T. Alexander, K. Lawrence, S. Juntti |
| 10:00 | Chemical Communication in the Mating Behavior of a Highly Polygynous Bird
P. Rivers, E. DuVal | Behavioral changes and fish availability can impact a century-old human-dolphin foraging cooperation
M. Cantor | Pervasive acoustic patterns in birdsong across phylogeny and geography
L. James, K. Oudyk, E. Wall, Y. Chen, W. Pearse, J. Sakata | The Evolutionary Integration of Individual and Collective Activity in a Hyper-diverse Ant Lineage.
G. Doering, M. Prebus, T. Linksvayer | Sexual Conflict and Ecology Shape Female Behavior and Cognition in Syntopic Poeciliid Fish Species
C. Inman, E. Gray, J. Yeager, P. Jiménez-Prado , M. Cummings | 21-C steroidal sex pheromones likely determine when and where Bigheaded carps (Family Xenocyprinidae) spawn
H. Lim, P. Sorensen |
| 10:15 | Habitat fragmentation facilitates song diversity in a species with typically stable traditions
J. Jenkins, M. Chaney, D. Jenkins, J. Lucas | Sociality as the driver and resolution to scaling challenges in group-living spiders.
G. Greenberg-Pines, A. Sasmaz, L. Avilés | Variation in allometry along the weapon‐signal continuum
E. McCullough, D. O'Brien | Red-tailed monkey personality predicts physiological stress responses
J. Milinazzo, J. Klein, F. Angwela, A. Torrico, M. Emery Thompson, M. Brown |
| 10:30 | Group dynamics drive susceptibility to the common evolutionary trap of plastic ingestion
L. Pollack, M. Culshaw-Maurer, A. Sih | No net loss? Effects of mining activity and habitat compensation projects on aquatic ecosystems
K. Church, A. Aguilar, A. Krupa, E. Guth, K. LeBlanc, M. Salt, H. Asselin, K. Turgeon | Frequent song type matching, including multi-way matching, in a dawn chorus communication network
D. Logue, J. Vazquez-Cardona, S. Huang, H. Petkau, P. Sosa-Negrón, K. Vilches-Castaño, K. Rodriguez-Rivera | Animal Architecture and Eviction: from Social Dynamics to Biomechanics
M. Laidre | Fitness and mortality costs to females in a system with allied sexual coercion
M. McEntee, E. Krzyszczyk, V. Foroughirad, M. Wallen, J. Mann | Increased female song and aggression is not associated with elevated testosterone in a temperate songbird
K. Odom, N. Prior, C. Haakenson, G. Ball, C. Krieg |
| 10:45 | Songs or Calls? The Neural Bases of Vocal Communication in Chickadees.
S. MacDougall-Shackleton, S. Mischler | Social intelligence is linked with pro-social behavior and fitness in Paper wasps Polistes fuscatus
E. Laub, N. Pinter-Wollman, E. Tibbetts | Exposure to coercive mating behavior drives reactive coping styles in female swordtails
S. Thakur, E. Adams, A. Vuong, C. Prahl, M. Ramsey, M. Cummings | Neuroendocrine state reflects social experiences in male and female zebra finches
N. Prior, C. Haakenson, G. Ball, B. Sandkam |
| 11:00 | Prior parental experience alters hormonal responses to stress and neural gene expression in a biparental bird
V. Farrar, J. Morales Gallardo, R. Calisi | Hearing and Vocalizations in Pacific Parrotlets (Forpus coelestis)
A. Magnaterra, R. Dooling, E. Rose, K. Odom, G. Ball | Signal Detection Theory: Testing Predictions in Naturally Occurring Uncertainty
F. Leri, L. Stein | Random mating in the face of balancing selection at the MHCI in Song Sparrows
S. Thompson, J. Slade, D. Potvin, E. MacDougall-Shackleton | Urbanization level and air quality can impact animal communication in an urban-adapted songbird species
K. Ronald, N. Gonzalez-Pech, O. Sprys-Tellner, J. Bergstrom, P. Hallemann |
| 11:15 | Mom, is That You? A Northern Elephant Seal Pup’s Ability to Vocally Recognize its Mother
M. Murphy, C. Casey, J. Camargo, G. Kolluru, M. Schroth-Glanz, H. Liwanag | The Role of Sociality in Brain Size Evolution: A Comparative Study in Birds
A. Rodrigues, C. Botero, P. Peixoto | The eco-evolutionary dynamics of sexual traits that increase mate encounter rates
J. Watts, C. Fitzpatrick | Lilikoi Syndrome: A Potential Inflammatory Etiology of Treatment Resistant Canine Behavioral Disorders
A. Verdema |
| 11:30 | Sex differences in behavior towards, but not learning about, nesting material in zebra finches
C. Lambert, J. Self, C. Poole, N. Gerle, H. Kooner, L. Guillette | Behavioral Influences on Wildlife-Road Interactions and Mitigation Strategies
J. Kintsch, S. Jacobson | Selective trail laying in carpenter ants could limit the effectiveness of the eavesdroppers
W. Song, J. Choi, H. Lim, S. Lee, P. Jablonski | Heart and Shoal: Social Buffering in the Zebrafish
L. Wilson, A. Riordan, A. Nussbaum, J. Krawitz | Costly traumatic insemination in bed bugs and the factors influencing female avoidance
J. Yan, M. Dobbin, R. Dukas | End of Session |
| 11:45 | Acoustic behavior of humpback whale calves on the feeding ground
J. Zeh, V. Perez-Marrufo, K. Knapp, D. Adcock, F. Jensen, J. Tackaberry, J. Robbins, M. Weinrich, A. Friedlaender, D. Wiley, S. Parks | Behavioral and trait-level responses of mixed-species flocks to plantation forestry in southwestern China
W. Zhou, L. Zhou, Y. Liu, S. Robinson | End of Session |
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Friday, July 14 |
| Time | Oregon Ballroom 201 | B110-111 | B112 | B113 | B114 | B115 |
| 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Allee Symposium | Conservation Behavior | Ecological effects 3
Moderator(s): Clinton Francis, Kiyoko Gotanda | Social behavior 5
Moderator(s): Matthew N Zipple, Ammon D. Perkes | Cognition & learning 3
Moderator(s): David R. Wilson, Chi-Yun Kuo | Behavioral plasticity 2
Moderator(s): Emilie Snell-Rood, Jennifer Hellmann |
| 1:30 | Complex social environments produce high boldness and low aggression behavioral syndromes.
P. Queller | Mating in a warming world
K. Fowler-Finn | Responses of bats and arthropods to altered forest structure in beetle-killed forests
A. Bevan, R. Adams | Individual and Social Contributors to Prosocial Behaviour in Juvenile Vervet Monkeys
M. Clarke, C. Vilette, C. Nord, T. Bonnell, S. Henzi, L. Barrett | Food-caching mountain chickadees can learn abstract rules to solve complex spatial-temporal patterns
L. Benedict, V. Heinen, J. Welklin, B. Sonnenberg, E. Bridge, V. Pravosudov | The evolution of mechanisms for balancing multiple demands: Have we been studying syndromes wrong?
A. Bell |
| 1:45 | Nest predation and deception across a latitudinal gradient
C. Francis, L. de Framond, H. Brumm | Conditional benefits of social integration in wild female geladas
J. Feder, J. Beehner, T. Bergman, N. Snyder-Mackler, A. Lu | Take it or Leaf it: Can Bees Learn to Use Leaf Shape to Find Flower Rewards?
M. Castagna, J. Burrow, C. Stewart, A. Russell | Colony variation in the relation between tempo of foraging and waste removal in harvester ant colonies
B. Das, D. Gordon |
| 2:00 | Automated Methodologies Used To Improve Rhesus Macaques’ Welfare in a Breeding Colony
G. Ciminelli, C. Witham, M. Bateson | Tune out or illuminate the problem? Risks of noise & light pollution on wildlife behavior and conservation
J. Phillips, B. Seymoure | A fish-eye view of male guppy colour
K. Gotanda, D. Kemp, A. Hendry, T. White | Hierarchically Embedded Social Dynamics in Vampire Bats
C. Hartman, I. Razik, G. Wilkinson, I. Hamilton, E. Hobson, G. Carter | Economic foraging in a floral marketplace: decision making in bumblebees
C. Hemingway, J. DeVore, F. Muth | Conspecific contact calls, but not alarm calls, affect neophobia in house sparrows (Passer domesticus)
M. Kimball, E. Gautreaux, K. Stansberry, T. Kelly, C. Lattin |
| 2:15 | Behavioral repertoire and activity patterns of mammalian islanders from the Pacific coast of Panama
C. Monteza-Moreno, L. Fox-Rosales, K. McLean, P. Jansen, P. Castillo C., M. Crofoot | Species Differences in Binaural Hearing Ability of Small Mammals in Oklahoma, USA.
L. Joseph, E. New, V. Franco, T. Woodley, E. McCullagh | Intricate covariation between exploration and avoidance learning in a generalist predator
C. Kuo, H. Chin, Y. Wu | Personality development and the effects of social experience on personality traits in Python regius
L. Kumpan, M. Skinner, J. Teichroeb, N. Miller |
| 2:30 | Two is better than one? The response of wild zebrafish shoals to predator cues and vegetation
I. Mukherjee, A. Malakar, D. Das, A. Bhat | Agriculture and Animal Behavior: An Elephantine Dilemma
B. Schulte | Nest location matters for long lived ant colonies
T. Ord, K. Blazek | Effect of larval cues on the feeding behavior and nutrient stores of adult Polistes metricus
T. Judd, D. Gay | Impact of dietary omega-3s on brain composition and problem-solving in nesting ring-billed gulls
J. Lamarre, D. Wilson | From daily rhythms to jet-lags: measuring the energetic cost of re-entrainment in a leaf-cutter ant colony
M. Pamplona-Barbosa, M. Toledo, G. Oda, A. Helene |
| 2:45 | Electric sand knife fish anticipate brightly moonlit nights: an endogenous circalunar rhythm?
C. Poon, W. Crampton | The Bayesian winner effect over time: A time-course analysis of post-fight whole-brain transcription
A. Perkes, A. Whitehead, K. Laskowski | "Don't yuck my yum: how bees assess costs and benefits to avoid exploitation by floral mimics”
A. Novinger, J. Burrow, C. Davis, A. Russell | Developmental plasticity in signaling systems as a facilitator of population divergence
E. Snell-Rood, A. Zambre |
| 3:00 | End of Session | Conservation Behavior as a Lens to Assess Chemical Pollution
M. LeFauve | How do selection pressures influence behavioural trait variability? A study on an Agamid lizard
P. Rajasekaran, K. Isvaran | Human-canid relationships: what has changed from wild wolf to docile dog?
G. Wirobski, F. Range, S. Marshall-Pescini | Avian visual exploratory behavior when solving a novel foraging task
R. Trapp, J. Lucas, E. Fernández-Juricic | The Influence of Social Isolation on Intergenerational Consequences of Paternal Predation Exposure
J. Hellmann, M. Rogers |
| 3:15 | End of Session | End of Session | The Best of Both Worlds: The Power and Opportunities of Re-Wilded Model Organisms
M. Zipple, C. Vogt, M. Sheehan | Omega-3 Fatty Acid in Eggs Predicts Problem-solving Ability of Parents in Nesting Ring-billed Gulls
D. Wilson, J. Lamarre | End of Session |
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Friday, July 14 |
| Time | B110-111 | B112 | B113 | B114 | B115 |
| 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Conservation Behavior | Parental Care 2
Moderator(s): Estelle A Sandhaus, Benjamin R. Sonnenberg | Social behavior 6
Moderator(s): Danai Papageorgiou, Peter R. Marting | Agonism
Moderator(s): Stephen Nowicki, Patrick A Green | Predation & foraging 3
Moderator(s): Jessica Yorzinski, Clara N Bird |
| 4:00 | Stress and the City: Using Conservation Behavior to Improve Urban Living for Humans and Wildlife
L. Stanton, C. Estien, C. Schell | To Eat or not to Eat: Parental Care and Filial Cannibalism in the Common Coqui Frog
F. Hardin, E. Fischer | Predictors of intergroup encounters in urban rhesus macaques
B. Chakraborty, S. Kaburu, K. Balasubramaniam, P. Marty, B. Beisner, B. McCowan | Building visual signal complexity through discrete modifications of motion
K. Fialko, T. Price | Behavioral Differences Between Two Poecilid Fish May Explain Mixed-species Grouping
J. Aguiñaga, L. Bassler, M. Thuilot, K. Laskowski |
| 4:15 | Using conservation behavior to solve conservation crises caused by invasive species and human predation
E. Peterson | Effects of Temperature on Barn Swallow Nestling Growth Depend on Social Environment
S. Madden, A. Pardue, S. Garcia, G. Patricelli, R. Safran, Z. Laubach | Otter Wars: Agonistic interactions between family groups of smooth-coated otters in Singapore
Z. Fan, D. Ang, M. Tan, P. Johns | Short-term mating resources drive contest success in banded mongoose (Mungos mungo) warfar
P. Green, D. Sankey, T. Collins, M. Cant, F. Thompson | Ontogenetic shifts and individual specializations in gray whales documented from drone footage
C. Bird, E. Pirotta, L. New, L. Torres |
| 4:30 | Leveraging conservation behavior to reduce anthropogenic stressors on wildlife
J. Young | California condor sex differences in parental investment during nesting
E. Sandhaus, A. Blackburn, J. Brandt, M. Astell, N. Faith, A. Punzalan, D. Meyer | Are Social Information Production and Use Genetically Correlated in D.melanogaster?
M. Hutchins, J. Saltz | Syntactic rules predict song type matching in a songbird
S. Nowicki, L. Chronister, W. Searcy | Effects of eavesdropping frog-biting midges on frog fitness in a multi-receiver communication system
B. Leavell, X. Bernal |
| 4:40 | Discussion
J. Young, E. Peterson |
| 4:45 | Development of an automated system to comprehensively track avian parental care behavior
G. Smith-Vidaurre, T. Molina, E. Jarvis, E. Hobson | Nest architecture and colony defense: How do entrance features influence aggression?
P. Marting, M. Smith | Efficiency of Sound Production in the Monster Haglid, Cyphoderris monstrosa (Orthoptera: Prophalangopsidae)
S. Ravinthiran, T. Chang, A. Mason | Does daily activity overlap of three mesocarnivores vary based on human development?
L. McTigue, E. Lassiter, M. Shaw, E. Johansson, K. Wilson, B. DeGregorio |
| 5:00 | The influence of cognition and experience on fine scale parental investment in a resident food-caching bird
B. Sonnenberg, C. Branch, A. Pitera, L. Benedict, V. Heinen, L. Whitenack, J. Welklin, E. Bridge, V. Pravosudov | Revisiting the Keystone Individual Hypothesis: How extreme individuals affect group behavior in a clonal fish
K. Sheehy, N. Raghavan, K. Laskowski | Vocal performance as a signal of aggressive intent in Adelaide’s warblers
J. Vazquez-Cardona, P. Mower, D. Logue | How spatial context influences foraging behavior in the California moray, Gymnothorax mordax
L. Pruett, M. McElfish , R. Mehta |
| 5:15 | Growing with Distance: using A.I. to track distance between gray whale mother-calf pairs in drone footage.
C. Sorrentino, C. Bird, L. Torres | End of Session | End of Session | Predator gaze captures both human and chimpanzee attention
J. Yorzinski, B. Karstadt, W. Whitham, N. Anderson, S. Schapiro, A. Kingstone, R. Coss, E. Birmingham |
