The current ABS 2024 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, June 26 |
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| 9:45 am - 12:15 pm | Symposium: The legacy of undergraduate programs in animal behavior (1) | Symposium: Increasing the visibility of LGBTQ+ scientists and building a queer-friendly community in the Animal Behavior Society (1) | Cognition & learning 1
Moderator(s): Chi-Yun Kuo, Julie Teichroeb | Social behavior 1
Moderator(s): Andrew G. Fulmer | Conservation
Moderator(s): Brendon Samuels, Joshua M. Plotnik | Communication 1
Moderator(s): Christine R Dahlin, Alex Wilder |
| 9:45 | Introduction
J. Snekser | Key contributions of LGBTQIA+ scientists to the field of animal behavior
K. Fowler-Finn | Tool use repertoire in four populations of robust capuchin monkeys
T. Falótico | Single species and multi-species playbacks elicit asymmetrical responses within mixed- species parid flocks
H. Brooks, T. Freeberg | Tadpoles show behavioral and physiological coping response to traffic noise
M. Flanagan, H. Stottlemyre, C. Gabor | Vocal Development in the Great Green Macaw
A. Allison, T. Wright |
| 10:00 | Hot Shit: Hormones and Behavior in the Zoo Environment
S. Margulis | Responses of Puerto Rican hummingbirds to urban heat.
V. Alaasam, S. Alejandro, K. Winchell | How to tell if an organism’s prediction strategies are optimal given their limited cognitive resources
V. Ferdinand, S. Marzen | Temperature Changes Induce Tipping Points in the Huddling and Behavioral Synchronization of Acorn Ant Colonies
G. Doering, T. Linksvayer | Gossip, Government, and Good Neighbors: Linking narrative to animal movement behavior across shared landscapes
K. Hernandez, D. Blumstein | Geographic variation of call recognition in a katydid
O. Beckers |
| 10:15 | Growing birds and growing into my identity: how studying bird hormones changed my life for the better
S. Winnicki | Spatial Learning and Perception in the Harvester (Opilionid) Phalangium opilio
P. Foerder | Chitty Chitty Duck Duck – From behavioral dynamics to population dynamics and back in a precocial bird.
J. Eadie, B. Lyon, E. Bridge, T. Moore, E. Berg, N. Odell, E. Graves, C. Thow, T. Stair, M. Hinton, M. Jones, C. Wells, A. Olson, K. Cook, D. Scheck, T. Russell | Lost in Defenseless "Territories": Reforming Avian Spatial Ecology
A. Kornreich, T. Daniels, J. Clark | Population decline contributes to cultural disruption in an Amazon parrot
C. Dahlin, G. Smith-Vidaurre, M. Genes, T. Wright |
| 10:30 | How My Undergraduate Training Prepared Me To Study Female Social Behavior
E. George | Field Inclusive Panel | Complexity of free-ranging spatial behaviour, cognition, and the hippocampus in ring-billed gulls
M. Guigueno, A. Lippold, M. Lalumiere, J. Verreault | Chercher la Mom: Multimodal Attention Within Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Social Groups
A. Fulmer, S. Johnston, A. Lazos, G. Sadongei, I. Tasevoli | Green Sea Turtles Feeding Aggregations in Oman: Feeding Behavior and Assessing Potential Human Impacts
A. Leduc, H. AL Mamari, N. Pampanin | Variation in Widespread Northern Cardinal Songs Recorded Along Orthogonal 100-mile Transects
S. Halkin |
| 10:45 | Faster explorers are more flexible avoidance learners without trade-off with learning speed
C. Kuo, Y. Chen, A. Meng, Y. Wu, S. Yang, C. Yeh | What is a society, and how does it maintain its membership? Looking for examples across the vertebrate taxa.
M. Moffett | An elephant model for integrating cognition into conservation
J. Plotnik, R. Ball, S. Jacobson, M. Rudolph, M. Yindee | The Role of Testosterone in Song Learning for a Species with a Two-Song Repertoire
R. Hill, B. Lohr |
| 11:00 | Singing in a world of noise: my interdisciplinary journey to the acoustic communication of whales
C. Perazio | Individual Variation in Behavioral Flexibility, Habitat Use and Foraging Behavior in the Florida Scrub-Jay
K. McCune | Honey Bee Colony Pollen Foraging Preferences and Food Plant Availability in Northern New Jersey
C. Moran-Bariso, D. Gilley | Window glazing type influences risk of bird-window collisions
B. Samuels, S. MacDougall-Shackleton | The potential role of the auditory system maintaining local dialects in Carolina chickadees
R. Najarro Flores, J. Lucas |
| 11:15 | A comparison of reversal learning in wild-caught queen and worker bumblebees.
S. Pimplikar, J. Buelow, N. Barkan, J. Strange, F. Muth | Out of the stable: the behavioral costs of social instability in feral horses (Equus caballus)
C. Nunez | Behavioral solutions to problems encountered during conservation translocations
R. Swaisgood | Are song type sequencing rules learned by song sparrows?
S. Nowicki, S. Peters, J. Soha, W. Searcy |
| 11:30 | Behavior as the Building Block: Using Research and Ethology to Inform Zoo Design and Animal Wellbeing
C. Ritzler | Cognitive Complexity and Sexual Dimorphism in Brown-headed Cowbirds
N. Robinson, D. White, H. Davies | Does Space Use Predict Sociality? Determinants of Social Network Structure in a Free-Living Mammal
E. Person, E. Lacey, J. Smith | Field agrochemical exposure impacts locomotor activity in wild bumblebees
C. Strang, S. Rondeau, N. Baert, S. McArt, N. Raine, F. Muth | Are human non-lingustic vocalizations acquired through vocal learning?
K. Pisanski, D. Reby, A. Oleszkiewicz |
| 11:45 | Unleashing Applied Animal Behavior Analysis in Undergraduate Teaching and Scholarship
L. Mehrkam, A. Farrell, A. Eck, S. McElhinney, M. Douglass, A. Cieniewicz | Farsighted or myopic? Evaluating reward discount factors to explain and predict animal decision-making
J. Teichroeb, L. Zheng, Y. Tan, T. Arseneau-Robar, J. Beck | Assessment of social same-sex and opposite-sex partner preferences in guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus)
A. Romero-Chacón, M. Cardona-Restrepo, G. Peña-Bello, A. Maldonado-Chaparro | Territoriality of the Endangered Leon Springs Pupfish: Reproduction, Egg Predation, and Protection
J. Snekser | Country finch-city finch: Does urbanization affect the chemical profiles of Darwin’s finch preen oil?
A. Wilder, S. Teale, G. Vollmers, S. McNew, D. Loyola, J. Yepez, A. Saulsberry, K. Gotanda |
| 12:00 | American Woodcock Courtship Performances as Conservation Management Indicators
C. Kolbmann, J. Kelly | Lessons in love: does staying with the same partner facilitate learning about nest building?
B. Whittaker, C. Poole, J. Hewitt, A. Camacho-Alpízar, L. Guillette | End of Session | End of Session | End of Session |
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Wednesday, June 26 |
| Time | SSC 2028 | SSC 2032 | SSC 2020 | SSC 2024 | SSC 2036 | SSC 2050 |
| 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Symposium: The legacy of undergraduate programs in animal behavior (2) | Symposium: Exploring intersections of behavior and welfare in free-ranging wild animals (1) | Cognition & learning 2
Moderator(s): Cheng-Yu Li, Sydney F. Hope | Social behavior 2
Moderator(s): Jacob A Feder, Gavin M Leighton | Parental care
Moderator(s): Jennifer Hellmann, Leanne Grieves | Communication 2
Moderator(s): Jeff Podos, Julia M Zeh |
| 1:30 | Are popular monkeys smarter? The social and cognitive lives of primates
R. Gazes | Wild Animal Welfare; A new frontier
J. Castellano Bueno | Evolutionary biology of social expertise
R. Dukas, N. Bailey, J. Yan | Social patterns underlying a group fission in olive baboons (Papio anubis)
J. Feder, J. Silk | Offspring provisioning dynamics in a communal breeding bird
L. Grieves, A. Grew, L. Iftikhar, J. Quinn | Acoustic Power and Metabolic Cost of Sound Production in the Monster Haglid, Cyphoderris monstrosa
T. Chang, S. Ravinthiran, A. Mason |
| 1:45 | The Thing That Stuck: Morphometric Variation in Raccoons Across Urbanization Gradients
C. Sluka, S. Benson-Amram, M. Ben-David | Deep dive into octopus sentience
M. Andrade, C. Dias dos Santos, T. S. Leite | Can Asian Elephants Prepare for Mutually-Exclusive Outcomes, and Does Social Context Play a Role?
S. Hope, S. Dittakul, T. Angkawanish, J. Plotnik | Conflict is Contagious in a Group-Living Fish
I. Hamilton | The interplay between paternal care and male-male cooperation in the ocellated wrasse
J. Hellmann, K. Stiver, S. Marsh-Rollo, S. Alonzo | Characterizing (un)natural vocal interactions between female zebra finches
B. Hoffman, L. James, J. Liu, M. Miron, S. Woolley |
| 2:00 | When to Learn From Others and When to Trust Yourself
E. Latchem, C. Brown, S. Balshine | Social support and rank dynamics in parakeet groups
E. Hobson | Does exposure to a widely used herbicide affect maternal care in an insect with family life?
L. Pasquier, J. Groutsch, M. Verger, V. Wallart, C. Lécureuil, J. Meunier | Transient and persistent effects of mating on individual multimodal signaling behavior in a tropical katydid
C. Kernan, L. Symes, H. ter Hofstede |
| 2:15 | Behavior as a Path to Success in the Civil Service
M. LeFauve | Epigenetics and the role of fear in shaping animal welfare
D. Daversa, D. Blumstein, M. Pellegrini, B. Putman, B. Shaffer | Social Experience Alters Learning Abilities and Brain Protein Expressions in Mangrove Rivulus Fish
C. Li, D. Kültz, A. Ward, E. Haag, R. Earley | Effects of Between-Group Conflict on Within-Group Social Behavior in Wild White Faced Capuchin Monkeys
S. Kovalaskas, V. Martins, C. India Wright, M. Benítez | Competition with vertebrate scavengers’ delays return to parental care in a burying beetle
C. Patmore, G. Lambert, C. Noonan, P. Smiseth | A spatial approach to duet function in the Adelaide’s Warbler (Setophaga adelaidae)
S. Krause, T. Bonnell, M. Dostie, S. Booth, P. Mower, D. Logue |
| 2:30 | Testing Dogs’ Preference to Attend to Attention-Related Behaviors in Others
D. Ravid-Schurr, S. Byosiere, B. Ploog | Unfamiliarity drives costly aggression in interspecific avian dominance hierarchies
G. Leighton, J. Drury, E. Miller | Provisioning in a Cooperative Bird with Multiple Breeding Females per Group
C. Poje, D. Thrasher, W. Feeney, M. Webster | Testing for a trade-off between song amplitude and tempo in one of the world’s loudest songbirds
J. Podos, J. Menezes, M. Cohn-Haft, P. Rizzato, F. Castro |
| 2:45 | Key Individuals and Experiences Shape Group Responses and Undergraduate Success
D. Shelton, P. Suriyampola, E. Martins | A Siren call: Integrating individual wild animal welfare across time and ecological contexts.
T. Luhring, M. Flanagan, S. Falcon, J. Kearns, C. Gabor, C. Schalk, C. Montana | Do secondary sexual traits reflect cognitive ability in wild food-caching birds?
L. Robayo Noguera, T. Wang, M. Pasquale, C. Branch | Winner and loser effects: a meta-analysis
N. Smith, J. Yan, D. Filice, D. Reuven | Large geographic distances and topographic barriers relate to geographic variation in a glass frog?
M. Rojas Montoya, Y. López Aguirre, C. Gonzaléz Acosta, F. Vargas Salinas | Singing in the Face of Danger: A Predator Simulation Experiment with Tropical Wrens
N. Sánchez, D. Mennill |
| 3:00 | Conclusion
M. Suchak | Variation in visual exploration strategies and its relation to dominance and asocial learning
R. Trapp, N. Lindsay, J. Lucas | End of Session | End of Session | Adelaide’s Warblers Increase Vocal Performance in Territorial Interactions
J. Vazquez-Cardona, P. Mower, S. Krause, D. Logue |
| 3:15 | Dust on the bottle: older budgerigars maintain vocal learning despite diminished social affiliations
T. Wright, S. Overcashier, G. Kohn, M. Araya-Salas, B. Moussaoui | Singing while diving: motor and acoustic performance links in a vocal learning mammal
J. Zeh, M. Lammers, A. Pack, S. Parks |
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Wednesday, June 26 |
| Time | SSC 2032 | SSC 2020 | SSC 2024 | SSC 2036 | SSC 2050 |
| 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Symposium: Exploring intersections of behavior and welfare in free-ranging wild animals (2) | Cognition & learning 3
Moderator(s): Jennifer Vonk, Jennifer A. Mather | Social behavior 3
Moderator(s): Ammon Perkes, Matthew N Zipple | Development
Moderator(s): Lisa L. Surber-Cunningham, Irene Delval | Communication 3
Moderator(s): Jenn R Foote, Logan S James |
| 7:00 | Surviving the Concrete Jungle: How Does Urban Living Affect the Welfare of Wild Mesocarnivores?
L. Stanton, C. Schell | Fidgeting and Displacement Behavior – two sides of the same evolutionary coin?
S. Chertoff, T. Bonnell, M. Thiessen, H. Heth, J. Leca | Asocial Testing of Social Species: Stress-testing the Ecological Validity of Our Behavior Assays
S. Benson | Early intersexual differences in the sexual behavior of wild capuchin monkeys (Sapajus xanthosternos)
I. Delval, N. Teles, J. Valentova, P. Izar, J. Leca | Commonness and intensity of nocturnal singing by diurnal birds in temperate regions
K. Buda, J. Buda, M. Budka |
| 7:15 | Catcalls:Exotic cats discriminate the voices of familiar caregivers
T. Crews, J. Vonk, M. McGuire | Familiarity with social partners influences affiliative interactions but not spatial associations
C. O'Connell, A. van der Marel, E. Hobson | Puppies Show Distinct Circadian Activity Patterns Despite Different Rearing Styles
M. Ferrans, B. Hare, PhD, M. Gruen, DVM, PhD | Interactive Human-Machine Collaboration to Characterize Vocal Repertoires
M. Cusimano, B. Hoffman, M. Johnson, V. Moreno-González, E. Trapote, V. Baglione, D. Canestrari, J. Liu, C. Rutz |
| 7:30 | Whispers of the Road: Unraveling the Impact of Road Noise on Free-Living White-Footed Mice
M. Sheriff, A. Giordano, H. Nogueira | Can we use standards from vertebrate evaluation to decide if cephalopods have a Theory of Mind
J. Mather | Clonal Fish Show Individual and Group-level Differences in Collective Behavior
A. Perkes, J. Jolles, D. Bierbach, C. Doran, M. Wolf, K. Laskowski | Evaluating Behaviour and Coloration Across Ontogeny in a Batesian Mimic
B. McEwen, A. Veneat, J. Yeager, J. Barnett | Free descriptions from first impressions of voices
D. Feinberg, J. Ostrega |
| 7:45 | "Whoo Said That?": Do captive owls (Strigiformes) recognize the voice of familiar caregivers?
G. Montalto, J. Vonk, V. O'Connor, C. Ferguson, L. Velazquez | Lost in space: The cross-species effect of personality composition on maze exploration
T. Shoot, N. Miller | Influences of early experiences on the development of competitive behaviour in puppies
Q. Rausch, J. Jacobs, J. Coe, T. Widowski, L. Niel | Male Ovenbirds Respond Less to Simulated Intrusions of the Same Song Type Sung by Their Neighbor
J. Foote |
| 8:00 | Panel Discussion | The research of mental rotation in a killer whale (Orcinus orca)
A. Santa, K. Kanda, I. Adachi | Competition and early life contingency (luck) shape individuality in genetically identical, free-living mice
M. Zipple, D. Chang, X. Meng, K. Guess, C. Vogt, A. Moeller, M. Sheehan | Risky Appetite: How Capuchin Monkeys Handle Toxic Grasshoppers
H. Rufo, L. Ferreira, E. Ottoni, T. Falótico | Humans and animals share acoustic preferences
L. James, S. Woolley, J. Sakata, C. Hilton, S. Mehr, M. Ryan |
| 8:15 | The role of conservation status and brain size in predicting carnivore behavioral flexibility on a MAB
V. O'Connor, L. Barrett, R. Snyder, N. Borrego, P. Thomas, J. Vonk | End of Session | Tadpole Fight Club: The Ontogeny of Aggression in Poison Frog Tadpoles
L. Surber-Cunningham, E. Fischer | Seeking Singing Supper: Host Seeking Behavior in Frog-Biting Mosquitoes, Uranotaenia lowii
R. Singh, X. Bernal |
